Midori Kato-Maeda, MD, MA
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Kato-Maeda’s research activities focuses on 1) transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), 2) drug- resistant tuberculosis, and 3) tuberculosis diagnosis.

Dr. Kato-Maeda, along with her U.S. and international collaborators, established community-based studies in San Francisco, Tanzania, and Uganda to study the transmission dynamics of MTB, using molecular epidemiology tools to identify patient and environmental factors that can be modified to decrease transmission of MTB, and to identify populations that have a high risk of infection. These studies have resulted in guided tuberculosis control interventions.

Another goal of her research is to determine the impact of bacterial characteristics on the transmission dynamics of MTB. Dr. Kato-Maeda and her collaborators developed the method to classify MTB in phylogenetic sound groups. This classification revolutionized the study of the impact of bacterial factors on the clinical and epidemiological phenotypes of this disease. They identified lineages of MTB that cause more secondary cases of tuberculosis, suggesting that bacterial factors contribute to the pathogenicity of MTB. Importantly, based on these studies, they created and published a collection of well-characterized clinical MTB strains representing different lineages which will be used by the global TB research community for in vitro and in animal studies. These research projects have resulted in a biobank with more than 3,000 clinical isolates of MTB and MTB DNA and the associated metadata, which they have used for new projects with collaborators inside and outside of UCSF.

Dr. Kato-Maeda’s studies in drug-resistant tuberculosis are focused on identifying novel genomic factors that govern drug-resistant tuberculosis and the impact of the introduction of novel drugs on the epidemiology of drug-resistant tuberculosis. These studies are being performed in collaboration with a strong team of multidisciplinary researchers from the Philippines and Japan. As a result of this project, they have created a research-specific biobank with more than 900 isolates of drug resistant MTB.

Dr. Kato-Maeda is a member of the Rapid Research for Diagnostics Development in TB Network (R2D2 TB Network), an initiative led by Drs. Adithya Cattamanchi and Payam Nahid at UCSF. The network involves clinical sites in the Philippines, Vietnam, Uganda, South Africa, and India. Dr. Kato-Maeda leads the specimen acquisition, processing, storage, shipping, and distribution as well as the quality assurance and quality control activities to ensure procedures are followed and performed to standard to ensure good quality specimens and contribute to the discussions with the developers about their assays.

Dr. Kato-Maeda’s unique expertise in mycobacteriology and MTB genomics has also enabled her to be an integral part of projects led by other members of the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis (https://tb.ucsf.edu/), and her laboratory serves as their core lab.

Dr. Kato-Maeda’s research projects have always been conducive to training, transfer of technology, and capacity building for our international collaborators.

• Genetic diversity and primary drug resistance transmission in Mycobacterium tuberculosis in southern Mexico.
  Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases 2021 Ordaz-Vázquez A, Torres-González P, Cruz-Hervert P, Ferreyra-Reyes L, Delgado-Sánchez G, García-García L, Kato-Maeda M, Ponce-De-León A, Sifuentes-Osornio J, Bobadilla-Del-Valle M
• The Spectrum of Tuberculosis Disease in an Urban Ugandan Community and Its Health Facilities.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2021 Kendall EA, Kitonsa PJ, Nalutaaya A, Erisa KC, Mukiibi J, Nakasolya O, Isooba D, Baik Y, Robsky KO, Kato-Maeda M, Cattamanchi A, Katamba A, Dowdy DW
• A Prospective Evaluation of Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Uganda.
  Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 2021 Jaganath D, Wambi P, Reza TF, Nakafeero J, Aben EO, Kiconco E, Nannyonga G, Nsereko M, Sekadde MP, Mudiope M, Kato-Maeda M, Starke J, Andama A, Mohanty S, Wobudeya E, Cattamanchi A
• Local adaptation in populations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis endemic to the Indian Ocean Rim.
  F1000Research 2021 Fabrizio Menardo, Liliana K. Rutaihwa, Michaela Zwyer, Sonia Borrell, Iñaki Comas, Emilyn Costa Conceição, Mireia Coscolla, Helen Cox, Moses Joloba, Horng-Yunn Dou, Julia Feldmann, Lukas Fenner, Janet…
• Local adaptation in populations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis endemic to the Indian Ocean Rim.
  F1000Research 2021 Menardo F, Rutaihwa LK, Zwyer M, Borrell S, Comas I, Conceição EC, Coscolla M, Cox H, Joloba M, Dou HY, Feldmann J, Fenner L, Fyfe J, Gao Q, García de Viedma D, Garcia-Basteiro AL, Gygli SM, Hella J, …
• Tuberculosis Associated with HIV Infection.
  2021 Midori Kato-Maeda, Annie Luetkemeyer, Peter M. Small
• Empiric treatment of pulmonary TB in the Xpert era: Correspondence of sputum culture, Xpert MTB/RIF, and clinical diagnoses.
  PloS one 2019 Kendall EA, Kamoga C, Kitonsa PJ, Nalutaaya A, Salvatore PP, Robsky K, Nakasolya O, Mukiibi J, Isooba D, Cattamanchi A, Kato-Maeda M, Katamba A, Dowdy DW
• Magnitude of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission among household and non-household contacts of TB patients.
  The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2019 Kato-Maeda M, Choi JC, Jarlsberg LG, Grinsdale JA, Higashi J, Kawamura LM, Osmond DH, Hopewell PC
• Reference set of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical strains: A tool for research and product development.
  PloS one 2019 Borrell S, Trauner A, Brites D, Rigouts L, Loiseau C, Coscolla M, Niemann S, De Jong B, Yeboah-Manu D, Kato-Maeda M, Feldmann J, Reinhard M, Beisel C, Gagneux S
• History of tuberculosis.
  Tuberculosis 2018 Robert Loddenkemper, John F. Murray, Christoph Gradmann, Philip C. Hopewell, Midori Kato-Maeda
• Whole-genome sequencing and single nucleotide polymorphisms in multidrug-resistant clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Philippines.
  Journal of global antimicrobial resistance 2018 Roa MB, Tablizo FA, Morado EKD, Cunanan LF, Uy IDC, Ng KCS, Manalastas-Cantos KG, Reyes JM, Ganchua SKC, Ang CF, Kato-Maeda M, Cattamanchi A, Karaoz U, Destura RV, Lluisma AO
• Interplay of strain and race/ethnicity in the innate immune response to M. tuberculosis.
  PloS one 2018 Nahid P, Jarlsberg LG, Kato-Maeda M, Segal MR, Osmond DH, Gagneux S, Dobos K, Gold M, Hopewell PC, Lewinsohn DM
• Spatial overlap links seemingly unconnected genotype-matched TB cases in rural Uganda.
  PloS one 2018 Chamie G, Kato-Maeda M, Emperador DM, Wandera B, Mugagga O, Crandall J, Janes M, Marquez C, Kamya MR, Charlebois ED, Havlir DV
• Clinical and bacteriological characteristics associated with clustering of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
  The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2017 Feng JY, Jarlsberg LG, Salcedo K, Rose J, Janes M, Lin SG, Osmond DH, Jost KC, Soehnlen MK, Flood J, Graviss EA, Desmond E, Moonan PK, Nahid P, Hopewell PC, Kato-Maeda M
• Impact of Euro-American sublineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on new infections among named contacts.
  The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2017 Feng JY, Jarlsberg LG, Rose J, Grinsdale JA, Janes M, Higashi J, Osmond DH, Nahid P, Hopewell PC, Kato-Maeda M
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 comprises globally distributed and geographically restricted sublineages.
  Nature genetics 2016 Stucki D, Brites D, Jeljeli L, Coscolla M, Liu Q, Trauner A, Fenner L, Rutaihwa L, Borrell S, Luo T, Gao Q, Kato-Maeda M, Ballif M, Egger M, Macedo R, Mardassi H, Moreno M, Tudo Vilanova G, Fyfe J, …
• Adaptation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Impaired Host Immunity in HIV-Infected Patients.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2016 Walter ND, de Jong BC, Garcia BJ, Dolganov GM, Worodria W, Byanyima P, Musisi E, Huang L, Chan ED, Van TT, Antonio M, Ayorinde A, Kato-Maeda M, Nahid P, Leung AM, Yen A, Fingerlin TE, Kechris K, …
• 35 Tuberculosis.
  Murray and Nadel\u0027s Textbook of Respiratory Medicine 2016 Philip C. Hopewell, Midori Kato-Maeda, Joel D. Ernst
• Likelihood-based inference for discretely observed birth-death-shift processes, with applications to evolution of mobile genetic elements.
  Biometrics 2015 Xu J, Guttorp P, Kato-Maeda M, Minin VN
• Serum biomarkers of treatment response within a randomized clinical trial for pulmonary tuberculosis.
  Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2015 Jayakumar A, Vittinghoff E, Segal MR, MacKenzie WR, Johnson JL, Gitta P, Saukkonen J, Anderson J, Weiner M, Engle M, Yoon C, Kato-Maeda M, Nahid P, Tuberculosis Trials Consortium
• Reduced sensitivity of the QuantiFERON(®) test in diabetic patients with smear-negative tuberculosis.
  The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2015 Choi JC, Jarlsberg LG, Grinsdale JA, Osmond DH, Higashi J, Hopewell PC, Kato-Maeda M
• Use of 16S rRNA gene for identification of a broad range of clinically relevant bacterial pathogens.
  PloS one 2015 Srinivasan R, Karaoz U, Volegova M, MacKichan J, Kato-Maeda M, Miller S, Nadarajan R, Brodie EL, Lynch SV
• Identifying locations of recent TB transmission in rural Uganda: a multidisciplinary approach.
  Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH 2015 Chamie G, Wandera B, Marquez C, Kato-Maeda M, Kamya MR, Havlir DV, Charlebois ED
• Genomic epidemiology of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis during transcontinental spread.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2015 Coscolla M, Barry PM, Oeltmann JE, Koshinsky H, Shaw T, Cilnis M, Posey J, Rose J, Weber T, Fofanov VY, Gagneux S, Kato-Maeda M, Metcalfe JZ
• Model of the Effects of Improving TB Diagnosis on Infection Dynamics in Differing Demographic and HIV-Prevalence Scenarios.
  Journal of Tuberculosis Research 2015 Allison S. Rhines, Midori Kato-Maeda, Marcus W. Feldman
• Association between diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis in United States-born and foreign-born populations in San Francisco.
  PloS one 2014 Suwanpimolkul G, Grinsdale JA, Jarlsberg LG, Higashi J, Osmond DH, Hopewell PC, Kato-Maeda M
• Pyrazinamide resistance, Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage and treatment outcomes in San Francisco, California.
  PloS one 2014 Budzik JM, Jarlsberg LG, Higashi J, Grinsdale J, Hopewell PC, Kato-Maeda M, Nahid P
• Genomic analysis identifies targets of convergent positive selection in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  Nature genetics 2013 Farhat MR, Shapiro BJ, Kieser KJ, Sultana R, Jacobson KR, Victor TC, Warren RM, Streicher EM, Calver A, Sloutsky A, Kaur D, Posey JE, Plikaytis B, Oggioni MR, Gardy JL, Johnston JC, Rodrigues M, Tang …
• Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans.
  Nature genetics 2013 Comas I, Coscolla M, Luo T, Borrell S, Holt KE, Kato-Maeda M, Parkhill J, Malla B, Berg S, Thwaites G, Yeboah-Manu D, Bothamley G, Mei J, Wei L, Bentley S, Harris SR, Niemann S, Diel R, Aseffa A, Gao …
• Sublineages of lineage 4 (Euro-American) Mycobacterium tuberculosis differ in genotypic clustering.
  The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2013 Anderson J, Jarlsberg LG, Grindsdale J, Osmond D, Kawamura M, Hopewell PC, Kato-Maeda M
• Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among patients in Baja California, Mexico, and Hispanic patients in California.
  American journal of public health 2013 Bojorquez I, Barnes RF, Flood J, López-Gatell H, Garfein RS, Bäcker CE, Alpuche C, Vinetz JM, Catanzaro A, Kato-Maeda M, Rodwell TC
• Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in foreign-born persons living in San Francisco.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2013 Suwanpimolkul G, Jarlsberg LG, Grinsdale JA, Osmond D, Kawamura LM, Hopewell PC, Kato-Maeda M
• Use of whole genome sequencing to determine the microevolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during an outbreak.
  PloS one 2013 Kato-Maeda M, Ho C, Passarelli B, Banaei N, Grinsdale J, Flores L, Anderson J, Murray M, Rose G, Kawamura LM, Pourmand N, Tariq MA, Gagneux S, Hopewell PC
• Fitting Birth-Death Processes to Panel Data with Applications to Bacterial DNA Fingerprinting.
  The annals of applied statistics 2013 Doss CR, Suchard MA, Holmes I, Kato-Maeda M, Minin VN
• Metabolomic signatures in guinea pigs infected with epidemic-associated W-Beijing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  Journal of proteome research 2012 Somashekar BS, Amin AG, Tripathi P, MacKinnon N, Rithner CD, Shanley CA, Basaraba R, Henao-Tamayo M, Kato-Maeda M, Ramamoorthy A, Orme IM, Ordway DJ, Chatterjee D
• Beijing sublineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis differ in pathogenicity in the guinea pig.
  Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI 2012 Kato-Maeda M, Shanley CA, Ackart D, Jarlsberg LG, Shang S, Obregon-Henao A, Harton M, Basaraba RJ, Henao-Tamayo M, Barrozo JC, Rose J, Kawamura LM, Coscolla M, Fofanov VY, Koshinsky H, Gagneux S, …
• Impact of isoniazid resistance-conferring mutations on the clinical presentation of isoniazid monoresistant tuberculosis.
  PloS one 2012 Dantes R, Metcalfe J, Kim E, Kato-Maeda M, Hopewell PC, Kawamura M, Nahid P, Cattamanchi A
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage--what's in your lungs?
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2012 Kato-Maeda M, Nahid P
• Whole-genome sequencing of rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains identifies compensatory mutations in RNA polymerase genes.
  Nature genetics 2011 Comas I, Borrell S, Roetzer A, Rose G, Malla B, Kato-Maeda M, Galagan J, Niemann S, Gagneux S
• Interferon gamma release assay compared with the tuberculin skin test for latent tuberculosis detection in pregnancy.
  Obstetrics and gynecology 2011 Worjoloh A, Kato-Maeda M, Osmond D, Freyre R, Aziz N, Cohan D
• The role of speciation in positive Lowenstein-Jensen culture isolates from a high tuberculosis burden country.
  PloS one 2011 Worodria W, Anderson J, Cattamanchi A, Davis JL, den Boon S, Andama A, Yoo SD, Joloba M, Huang L, Kato-Maeda M
• Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: application in epidemiologic studies.
  Future microbiology 2011 Kato-Maeda M, Metcalfe JZ, Flores L
• Strain classification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: congruence between large sequence polymorphisms and spoligotypes.
  The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2011 Kato-Maeda M, Gagneux S, Flores LL, Kim EY, Small PM, Desmond EP, Hopewell PC
• Determinants of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis clusters, California, USA, 2004-2007.
  Emerging infectious diseases 2010 Metcalfe JZ, Kim EY, Lin SY, Cattamanchi A, Oh P, Flood J, Hopewell PC, Kato-Maeda M
• Influence of M. tuberculosis lineage variability within a clinical trial for pulmonary tuberculosis.
  PloS one 2010 Nahid P, Bliven EE, Kim EY, Mac Kenzie WR, Stout JE, Diem L, Johnson JL, Gagneux S, Hopewell PC, Kato-Maeda M, Tuberculosis Trials Consortium
• Differences among sublineages of the East-Asian lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in genotypic clustering.
  The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2010 Kato-Maeda M, Kim EY, Flores L, Jarlsberg LG, Osmond D, Hopewell PC
• Novel hot spot of IS6110 insertion in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  Journal of clinical microbiology 2010 Kim EY, Nahid P, Hopewell PC, Kato-Maeda M
• Chapter 34 Tuberculosis.
  Murray and Nadel\u0027s Textbook of Respiratory Medicine 2010 Philip C. Hopewell, Midori Kato-Maeda
• Comparison of restriction fragment length polymorphism with the polymorphic guanine-cytosine-rich sequence and spoligotyping for differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates with five or fewer copies of IS6110.
  Journal of clinical microbiology 2009 Flores L, Jarlsberg LG, Kim EY, Osmond D, Grinsdale J, Kawamura M, Desmond E, Hopewell PC, Kato-Maeda M
• Virulence, immunopathology and transmissibility of selected strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a murine model.
  Immunology 2008 Marquina-Castillo B, García-García L, Ponce-de-León A, Jimenez-Corona ME, Bobadilla-Del Valle M, Cano-Arellano B, Canizales-Quintero S, Martinez-Gamboa A, Kato-Maeda M, Robertson B, Young D, Small P, …
• Molecular analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains with an intact pks15/1 gene in a rural community of Mexico.
  Archives of medical research 2008 Martinez-Gamboa A, Ponce-de-Leon A, Galindo-Fraga A, Bobadilla-del-Valle M, Kato-Maeda M, Robertson BD, Young DB, Small PM, Sifuentes-Osornio J
• IL-24 modulates IFN-gamma expression in patients with tuberculosis.
  Immunology letters 2007 Wu B, Huang C, Kato-Maeda M, Hopewell PC, Daley CL, Krensky AM, Clayberger C
• IL-9 is associated with an impaired Th1 immune response in patients with tuberculosis.
  Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) 2007 Wu B, Huang C, Kato-Maeda M, Hopewell PC, Daley CL, Krensky AM, Clayberger C
• Large sequence polymorphisms classify Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains with ancestral spoligotyping patterns.
  Journal of clinical microbiology 2007 Flores L, Van T, Narayanan S, DeRiemer K, Kato-Maeda M, Gagneux S
• Unique gene expression profiles in infants vaccinated with different strains of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guerin.
  Infection and immunity 2007 Wu B, Huang C, Garcia L, Ponce de Leon A, Osornio JS, Bobadilla-del-Valle M, Ferreira L, Canizales S, Small P, Kato-Maeda M, Krensky AM, Clayberger C
• Messenger RNA expression of IL-8, FOXP3, and IL-12beta differentiates latent tuberculosis infection from disease.
  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2007 Wu B, Huang C, Kato-Maeda M, Hopewell PC, Daley CL, Krensky AM, Clayberger C
• Microevolution of the direct repeat locus of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a strain prevalent in San Francisco.
  Journal of clinical microbiology 2006 Aga RS, Fair E, Abernethy NF, Deriemer K, Paz EA, Kawamura LM, Small PM, Kato-Maeda M
• Variable host-pathogen compatibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006 Gagneux S, DeRiemer K, Van T, Kato-Maeda M, de Jong BC, Narayanan S, Nicol M, Niemann S, Kremer K, Gutierrez MC, Hilty M, Hopewell PC, Small PM
• Use of rapid genomic deletion typing to monitor a tuberculosis outbreak within an urban homeless population.
  Journal of clinical microbiology 2005 Freeman R, Kato-Maeda M, Hauge KA, Horan KL, Oren E, Narita M, Wallis CK, Cave D, Nolan CM, Small PM, Cangelosi GA
• Genomic analysis distinguishes Mycobacterium africanum.
  Journal of clinical microbiology 2004 Mostowy S, Onipede A, Gagneux S, Niemann S, Kremer K, Desmond EP, Kato-Maeda M, Behr M
• Functional and evolutionary genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: insights from genomic deletions in 100 strains.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2004 Tsolaki AG, Hirsh AE, DeRiemer K, Enciso JA, Wong MZ, Hannan M, Goguet de la Salmoniere YO, Aman K, Kato-Maeda M, Small PM
• [Increasing trend of antimicrobial drug-resistance in organisms causing bacteremia at a tertiary-care hospital: 1995 to 2000].
  Revista de investigacion clinica; organo del Hospital de Enfermedades de la Nutricion 2003 Kato-Maeda M, Bautista-Alavez A, Rolón-Montes-de-Oca AL, Ramos-Hinojosa A, Ponce-de-León A, Bobadilla-del-Valle M, Ruiz-Palacios G, Sifuentes-Osornio J
• Comparison of sodium carbonate, cetyl-pyridinium chloride, and sodium borate for preservation of sputa for culture of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  Journal of clinical microbiology 2003 Bobadilla-del-Valle M, Ponce-de-León A, Kato-Maeda M, Hernández-Cruz A, Calva-Mercado JJ, Chávez-Mazari B, Caballero-Rivera BA, Nolasco-García JC, Sifuentes-Osornio J
• Microarray analysis of pathogens and their interaction with hosts.
  Cellular microbiology 2001 Kato-Maeda M, Gao Q, Small PM
• rpoB Gene mutations in rifampin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis identified by polymerase chain reaction single-stranded conformational polymorphism.
  Emerging infectious diseases 2001 Bobadilla-del-Valle M, Ponce-de-Leon A, Arenas-Huertero C, Vargas-Alarcon G, Kato-Maeda M, Small PM, Couary P, Ruiz-Palacios GM, Sifuentes-Osornio J
• User's guide to tuberculosis resources on the internet.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2001 Kato-Maeda M, Small PM
• Comparing genomes within the species Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  Genome research 2001 Kato-Maeda M, Rhee JT, Gingeras TR, Salamon H, Drenkow J, Smittipat N, Small PM
• The nature and consequence of genetic variability within Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 2001 Kato-Maeda M, Bifani PJ, Kreiswirth BN, Small PM
• Detection of deleted genomic DNA using a semiautomated computational analysis of GeneChip data.
  Genome research 2000 Salamon H, Kato-Maeda M, Small PM, Drenkow J, Gingeras TR
• Detection of Deleted Genomic DNA Using a Semiautomated Computational Analysis of GeneChip Data.
  Genome Research 2000 Hugh Salamon, Midori Kato-Maeda, Peter M. Small, Jorg Drenkow, Thomas R. Gingeras
• Bloodborne viral infections in patients attending an emergency room in Mexico City: estimate of seroconversion probability in healthcare workers after an occupational exposure.
  Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2000 Kato-Maeda M, Ponce-de-León S, Sifuentes-Osornio J, Rangel-Frausto MS, Calva-Mercado J, Infante-Surez L, Villareal FM, Ponce-de-León S
• How molecular epidemiology has changed what we know about tuberculosis.
  The Western journal of medicine 2000 Kato-Maeda M, Small PM
• Drug resistance among acid-fast bacilli.
  Lancet (London, England) 1999 Kato-Maeda M, Sifuentes-Osornio J, Bobadilla-del-Valle M, Ruiz-Palacios GM, Ponce-de-León A
• Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infection imported to Mexico from a tourist resort in Kenya.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 1996 Ponce-de-León S, Lisker-Melman M, Kato-Maeda M, Gamboa-Domínguez A, Ontiveros C, Behrens RH, González-Ruiz A