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IASR Vol. 34, No.10 (No. 404) October 2013


  topic Chickenpox/varicella zoster and vaccine in Japan

  • Importance of varicella vaccination in organ transplantation units in pediatric services
  • Severe form of varicella infection among immune deficient subjects-needing special attention to severe abdominal pain and low back pain
  • Adult varicella infection
  • Varicella infection during pregnancy-fetal death in the third trimester due to primary varicella infection
  • Journal Review “Near Elimination of Varicella Deaths in the US
               After Implementation of the Vaccination Program”
  • Need of two doses of varicella vaccine
  • Epidemiological studies on varicella zoster in Miyazaki Prefecture
  • Epidemiological studies on varicella zoster in Shodo Island
  • Ramsay Hunt Syndrome-what is needed for reducing serious clinical consequences?
  • Pathology of varicella zoster virus infections
  • Geographical distribution of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) cases in Japan (1st report)
  • Two domestic infection cases of relapsing fever
  • Dengue fever and chikungunya fever cases that occurred in the same tourist group returning from Cambodia
  • Change in clinical features of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) within one epidemic season, which was observed in Matsumoto City in the central part of Nagano Prefecture -comparison of 2013 epidemic with the past epidemics
  • Detection of enteroviruses from aseptic meningitis patients, 2013—Oita Prefecture
  • Detection of echovirus type 30 from aseptic meningitis patients, 2013—Shiga Prefecture
  • An adult male rubella case, among those who had received measles-rubella vaccine, June 2013—Kawasaki City
  • Hepatitis A virus outbreak due to intrafamilial transmission, March-July 2013—Kawasaki City
  • Clinical characteristics of five severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) cases including two cases of intrafamilial infection, May-July 2013
  • A suspected Japanese spotted fever case, which was later diagnosed as endemic typhus by serological diagnosis, June 2013

 

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