IASR Vol. 34, No.12 (No. 406) December 2013
Meningococcal infection, 2005-October 2013, Japan
- Serological and molecular epidemiological analysis of isolates from meningococcal meningitis patients in 2005-2012
- A meningococcal meningitis case, which was responded by prompt contact person investigation and prophylactic medication
- Outbreak of meningococcal meningitis in a boarding senior high school in Mie Prefecture, which was responded by prophylactic medication
- Prophylactic medication to persons who had contact with Neisseria meningitidis-infected patients
- A fulminant fatal sepsis case found among meningococcal infection outbreak in a boys’ high school boarding house
- A case of meningococcal pneumonia
- Meningococcal urethritis among MSM（men who have sex with men)
- On meningococcal vaccines
- Recent trends of Neisseria meningitidis invasive infections in the world
- The first influenza virus isolates in 2013/14 season-Tochigi Prefecture
- The first outbreak of type B influenza in a primary school in 2013/14 season-Wakayama Prefecture
- Characteristics of the first isolate of type B influenza virus (Victoria lineage) in 2013/14 season-Aichi Prefecture
- Epidemiological features of rubella epidemic in Wakayama City, week 1-week 35, 2013
- A Ross River fever case detected during the health consultation in Kansai Airport Quarantine station
- The first imported case of Ross River virus infection in Japan
- The twelfth human case of Corynebacterium ulcerans infection in Japan
- Food poisoning outbreak in a nursery school caused by Escherichia coli O55:H7, July 2013-Nagano Prefectuer
- HIV/AIDS in Japan, July-September 2013