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IASR Vol. 34, No.8 (No. 402) August 2013


  topicMumps (infectious parotitis) in Japan, as of July 2013

  • Efficacy and safety of mumps vaccines
  • Laboratory diagnosis of mumps and differentiation of vaccine and wild strains
  • New criteria for mumps virus classification and mumps virus genotypes circulated in Japan, 1986-2012
  • Molecular epidemiology of mumps virus isolated in Yokohama City, 1999-2012
  • Pediatric cases of hearing loss caused by mumps infection
  • Hearing impairment caused by mumps infection and its compensation
  • Natural infection of mumps and post-vaccination aseptic meningitis
  • Recent mumps cases observed among the population that had received two rounds of MMR
    vaccinations in the USA and measures taken-as of 2013
  • An early sign of hand, foot and mouth disease epidemic by coxsackievirus A6 for 2013-
    Kumamoto
  • Outbreak of human metapneumovirus infection in a welfare facility, April 2013-Chiba City
  • Two falciparum malaria cases that occurred in the same tourist group returning from Kenya, June 2013
  • Rubella antibody prevalence among 20-29 year old females-data provided by a commercial
    laboratory, January-June, 2013
  • Multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from a foreigner patient, which
    co-produced both NDM-1 metalo-ß-lactamase and OXA-181 carbapenemase, June 2013
  • Isolation of the NDM-, KPC- and OXA-48 type carbapenemase-producing bacteria in Japan
    (as of July 2013)
  • New type carbapenemase TMB-2-producing Acinetobacter soli,which was isolated by blood culture of a wounded patient, May 2013

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