Tatsuo Omura | Innovation of water monitoring system with rapid, highly precise and exhaustive pathogen detection technologies |
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Innovation of water monitoring system with rapid, highly precise and exhaustive pathogen detection technologies
Research Director
- Tatsuo Omura
- Professor, Tohoku University
Co-Investigators
- Hitoshi Oshitani
- Professor, Tohoku University
- Toru Watanabe
- Professor, Yamagata University
Current measures against the spread of infectious diseases transmitted via water circulation system are vulnerable, and bring social unrest to those who desire for securing safe water. Our goal is to establish a new water monitoring system to reduce the number of infectious gastroenteritis patients which amounts to 5,600,000 cases every year. We will develop rapid, highly precise and exhaustive detection methods for pathogens in the water environment. By frequent monitoring of urban wastewater with the new detection methods, warnings can be issued immediately after the transmission of infectious diseases.