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IASR Vol. 38,
No. 8 (No. 50) August 2017


  topicJapanese encephalitis, Japan, 2007-2016

  • A case of infant Japanese encephalitis (JE) in Chiba Prefecture in summer 2015
  • Case report of a JE patient in summer 2015 and trends in detection of JEV in farmed pigs and mosquitoes in 1990 & 2008-2016 in Chiba Prefecture
  • Epidemiological investigation of JE in Tsushima City, Nagasaki Prefecture
  • Cluster of JE cases in Tsushima City, Nagasaki Prefecture in 2016 and investigation of mosquitoes and wild boars in the region
  • Trends in laboratory detections of JE and description of diagnostic methods used in Japan, 2007-2016
  • Seroprevalence of JEV neutralizing antibody and JE vaccine coverage in Japan, FY 2007-2016-National Epidemiological Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
  • Prevalence of anti-JEV HI antibody among farmed pigs in Japan, FY 2016-National Epidemiological Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
  • Prevalence of JEV among mosquitoes
  • History of JE vaccine in Japan and switching from mouse brain-derived vaccine to tissue culture-derived vaccine
  • Procurement of JE vaccine in Japan
  • Global situation update on JE and measures necessary for response
  • Assessing risk of infection following exposure to body fluids from a deceased patient with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS)
  • Detection of SFTS virus from the eschar of a patient with SFTS
  • Cluster of Japanese spotted fever cases in Yamaguchi Prefecture, September 2016
  • Cautionary points regarding genotyping of rotaviruses
  • Testing for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus among those engaged in culling or disposing of poultry in Hokkaido, December 2016
  • Food poisoning due to Escherichia albertii, May 2017-Utsunomiya City

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