IASR Vol. 41,
No. 2(No. 480) February 2020
Acute Flaccid Paralysis in Japan as of December 2019
- Clinical differentiation and symptoms of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)
- Japan’s efforts to advance global polio eradication strategy, including GAPIII
- World polio eradication program status and infectious agents surveillance system
- Summary of AFP cases notified to the National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases (NESID) system
- Pathology of AFP due to enterovirus infection
- Current practices and challenges of AFP pathogen testing at prefectural and municipal public health institutes (PHIs)
- Non-polio enterovirus testing including EV-D68 and EV-A71 in patients with AFP
- “Adequate preparations” and “field cooperation” are essential to pathogen diagnosis of AFP － examination of EV-D68-related AFM case diagnosed in non-endemic period in 2017
- Summary and measures for influenza outbreak at Naha City Hospital, Okinawa Prefecture, August-September 2019
- Treatment of pregnant woman syphilis
- Molecular identification of gastric parasites in Anisakis food poisoning cases, Toyama Prefecture, January-June 2018