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IASR Vol. 39,
No. 3 (No. 457) March 2018


  topicRubella and congenital rubella syndrome in Japan as of January 2018

  • Amendments to the ministerial order pertaining to the control of rubella
  • Follow-up report of 45 congenital rubella syndrome case patients born in 2012-2014
  • Laboratory diagnosis of rubella: status among cases registered in NESID, April 2014 to December 2016
  • Laboratory diagnostic methods for rubella
  • Diagnostic value of rubella IgM antibody testing in adults
  • An attempt at detecting rubella virus from umbilical cords
  • Rubella vaccination status and seroprevalence in Japan, FY2017—National Epidemiological Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (provisional results)
  • Tokyo Prefecture’s response efforts towards rubella elimination    → Link to JJID
  • “The Rubella Zero” Project 2018—in progress!
  • Rubella elimination in the WHO Western Pacific Region: progress and current response efforts
  • Tick-borne encephalitis in Hokkaido, 2017
  • Trends in occurrence of syphilis in Okinawa Prefecture, 2011-2017

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