IASR Vol. 34, No.5 (No. 399) May 2013
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli infection in Japan as of April 2013
- Symptoms associated with EHEC infection, by serotype, 2012
- EHEC O157 food poisoning caused by lightly pickled Chinese cabbage−Sapporo City
- Large scale EHEC O157:H7 food poisoning outbreak in Hokkaido in August 2012; IS-printing analysis of the isolates obtained outside of Hokkaido
- On revision of hygienic standards of pickled vegetables in response to several food poisoning incidents related to lightly pickled vegetables
- Epidemiology of EHEC O157 food poisoning in 2011-2012; possible influence of the tightened hygienic regulation of marketed beef and cattle liver for eating raw
- Food poisoning caused by VT1&2- producing strain of EHEC O157:H7 in a restaurant−Aomori
- EHEC O26 VT1 outbreak in a nursery school−Osaka City
- EHEC O26 VT1 outbreak, which was attributed to contaminated water of a padding pool−Nagano
- EHEC O26:H11 VT1 outbreaks in nursery schools−Kurashiki City
- EHEC outbreak in a nursery school caused by serogroups O103 and O111−Niigata City
- EHEC O145 VT2 outbreak in a nursery school−Fukuoka City
- EHEC O157:H- VT2 outbreak in a nursery school−Aomori
- Multiple EHEC cases among participants in a Beijing sightseeing Tour
- Cluster analysis of the PFGE patterns exhibited by O157 and O26 isolated in various places in Japan, 2012
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome that appeared in NESID: trends in 2012
- Antigenic and drug-resistance types of the epidemic influenza viruses in Japan in 2012/13 season (progress report)
- Toxin-producing Corynebacterium ulcerancs isolated from a patient with diphtheria symptoms; the first report in Shiga Prefecture
- CLSI’s modified criteria for evaluating clinical efficacy of fluoroquinolone antibiotics in terms of MIC for Salmonella Typhi and parenteral isolates of Salmonella
Data
- Salmonella Typhi & Salmonella Paratyphi A phage types from human sources, Japan
(Feb. 21, 2013 - Apr. 20, 2013)