IASR Vol. 35, No.2 (No. 408) February 2014

  Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) in Japan, 2013

• Epidemiology of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) in China
• SFTS: its regulation as a newly identified infectious disease
• Genomic phylogenetic analysis of SFTSV isolated from SFTS patients in Japan
• Biosafety and other guidelines for prevention of familial and hospital infections of SFTSV
• Summary report of 40 clinical cases of SFTS in 2013-National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases
• A mild SFTS case whose clinical differential diagnosis from rickettsiosis was difficult, April 2013
• Laboratory tests of SFTS
• Severe influenza pneumonia encountered in the early 2013/14 season in a healthy adult person infected by A(H1)pdm09 -Sapporo City
• Anti-influenza drug-resistant A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses detected in the early 2013/14 season in Sapporo City
• Anti-influenza drug-resistant A(H1N1)pdm09 isolated from a child, who was suspected familial infection but had not been administered with oseltamivir, December 2013
• Two clinical cases diagnosed as Zika fever after return from Bora Bora Island, French Polynesia, December 2013
• Epidemiological trends of invasive pneumococcal infections and invasive Haemophilus influenzae infections-Notification as category V infectious disease since April 2013
• Isolation of coxsackievirus A21 from two sporadic cases, August-September 2013-Tokyo
• Coxsackievirus A6 detected from hand, foot and mouth disease cases in 2013-Sendai City
• An acute encephalopathy case of one year nine month boy, from whom HHV-6 and a number of picornavirus were detected, September 2013