logo pdf40e

IASR Vol. 38,
No. 12 (No. 454) December 2017


  topicTuberculosis in Japan, 2016

  • Governance and legal framework for tuberculosis prevention and control in Japan: historical description and advancements (the Tuberculosis Prevention Law, the Infectious Diseases Control Law)
  • Tuberculosis as an imported infectious disease, 2007-2016
  • Situation update on drug-resistant tuberculosis and treatment effectiveness in Japan based on tuberculosis surveillance data, 2016
  • Progress in tuberculosis laboratory diagnostic methods
  • Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Japan
  • An outbreak of tuberculosis that originated from a detainee at a detention center, February 2016—Shibuya, Tokyo
  • An outbreak of tuberculosis among customers of a pachinko parlor, 2011-2016
  • Tuberculosis outbreak among contacts of a young patient with fatal tuberculosis whose access to healthcare was delayed
  • WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2017
  • Non-tuberculosis mycobacterial infections
  • Outbreak of human rotavirus C infection at a daycare center for disabled persons, July 2017—Chiba Prefecture
  • Suspected metapneumovirus infection outbreak at a nursing home for the elderly, August 2016—Tokyo Prefecture

Copyright 1998 National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan