IASR Vol. 33, No.6 (No. 388) June 2012
Kudoa and Sarcocystis Food Poisoning in Japan
- Review: Food poisoning caused by Kudoa septempunctata, a flatfish parasite
- Kudoa septempunctata food poisoning outbreak due to consumption of imported flatfish, September 2011—Mie
- Kudoa septempunctata food poisoning outbreak due to imported flatfish consumed raw, September 2011—Hokkaido
- Kudoa septempunctata food poisoning outbreak due to imported flatfish consumed raw, October 2011—Nara City
- Detection of Kudoa species from flatfish, tuna fish, sea bream and other fish specimens involved in diarrhea events after consumption of raw fish, June 2011-April 2012—Tokyo
- Response to Kudoa septempunctata food poisoning in fish producer prefectures: pre-market screening of flatfish—Oita
- Improved Kudoa septempunctata specific real-time PCR
- Review: Sarcosporidiosis (sarcocystosis)
- Sarcocystis fayeri food poisoning outbreak due to consumption of raw horsemeat, September 2011—Okayama
- Development of method for detection of Sarcocystis fayeri specific DNA from stool specimens by means of nested-PCR
- Prevalence of Sarcocystis cruzi among cattle revealed by investigation of beef meat produced in Gifu Prefecture later than June 2011
- Notice from MHLW: Decision on influenza virus strains to be used for the 2012/13 season influenza HA vaccine in Japan
- Clinical investigation of hospital admitted Mycoplasma pneumoniae patients during the 2011 epidemic season—NIID
- A tetanus case, from whose injury site Clostridium tetani was isolated, November 2011—Kagoshima
- Isolation of Haemophilus influenzae type e from blood specimen of a fatal aspiration pneumonia and bacteremia case, January 2012—Akita
- Response to a measles outbreak due to genotype D9 measles virus imported from Philippines, January-February 2012—Okayama
- Detection of rubella virus genotype 1E and 2B from measles-suspected cases, 2011-2012—Aichi
- Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis outbreak in 2011 and isolation of coxsackievirus A24 variant—Okinawa
- HIV/AIDS in Japan, January-March, 2012