vol 73 no 4, July, 2020
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Incidence of bacterial enteropathogens among diarrhea patients from tribal areas of Odisha
Smruti Ranjan Nayak, Ashish Kumar Nayak, Bhagya Laxmi Biswal, Rudra Prasad Jena, Surya Kanta Samal, and Bibhuti Bhusan Pal
Risk of seasonal influenza by occupation in a railway company in a metropolitan area of Japan during three influenza seasons
Munehisa Fukusumi, Yoshiyuki Kanagawa, Satoko Ohfuji, Kenji Miyazaki, Tamano Matsui, Kaoru Mizoguchi, Yasutoshi Yuguchi, Wakaba Fukushima, Kazunori Oishi, and Yoshio Hirota
Comparison of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification, Microscopy, Culture, and PCR for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Benjawan Phetsuksiri, Janisara Rudeeaneksin, Sopa Srisungngam, Supranee Bunchoo, Wiphat Klayut, Chie Nakajima, Shigeyuki Hamada, and Yasuhiko Suzuki
Identification of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria from Clinical Isolates and Specimens using AdvanSure Mycobacteria GenoBlot Assay
Si Hyun Kim and Jeong Hwan Shin
Clinical relevance and characteristics of nontuberculous mycobacterial pleuritis
Peng Wen, Min Wei, Yu-Rong Xu, and Liang Dong
Advanced age is not a risk factor for mortality in patients with bacteremia caused by extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing organisms: A multicenter cohort study
Satoru Mitsuboshi, Naoki Tsuruma, Kazuya Watanabe, Shigehiro Takahashi, Atsuko Ito, Manami Nakashita, Mitsuyuki Suzuki, Kenichi Kobayashi, and Masami Tsugita
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Epidemiology of antimicrobial use among nursing homes in Japan, 2016: A pilot study
Masahiro Ishikane, Yoshiki Kusama, Chika Tanaka, Kayoko Hayakawa, Takeshi Kuwahara, and Norio Ohmagari
First draft genome sequence of linezolid and rifampicin resistant Staphylococcus haemolyticus
Yamuna Devi Bakthavatchalam, Karthick Vasudevan, Ayyanraj Neeravi, Rajamani Perumal, and Balaji Veeraraghavan
Molecular Epidemiology of Dengue Viruses Isolated in Shantou city, China, during 2015-2017
Chuan Guo, Jiemin Lin, Wan Chen, Zhihua Zhang, De Wu, and Changwen Ke
Development of Genetic Diagnostic Methods for Novel Coronavirus 2019 (nCoV-2019) in Japan
Kazuya Shirato, Naganori Nao, Harutaka Katano, Ikuyo Takayama, Shinji Saito, Fumihiro Kato, Hiroshi Katoh, Masafumi Sakata, Yuichiro Nakatsu, Yoshio Mori, Tsutomu Kageyama, Shutoku Matsuyama, and Makoto Takeda
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REPORT
Comparison with Streptococcus agalactiae Isolates from Humans Reveals Genotypic and Phenotypic Characteristics of Isolates from Companion Animal-origin
Takahiro Maeda, Yuzo Tsuyuki, Tomohiro Fujita, Yasuto Fukushima, Mieko Goto, Haruno Yoshida, and Takashi Takahashi
LABORATORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS
Five cases of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis due to human adenovirus type 85 in Fukushima, Japan
Hisatoshi Kaneko, Nozomu Hanaoka, Masami Konagaya, Masaaki Kobayashi, Hisashi Nakagawa, Hiroshi Hatano, Kazufumi Ikuta, Tetsuju Sekiryu, and Tsuguto Fujimoto
Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 isolated from asymptomatic carrier in Tokyo
Mami Nagashima, Ryota Kumagai, Isao Yoshida, Mamiyo Kawakami, Miyuki Nagano, Hiroyuki Asakura, Emiko Kaku, Yurie Kitamura, Michiya Hasegawa, Yukinao Hayashi, Takashi Chiba, Kenji Sadamasu, and Kazuhisa Yoshimura
Detection of Oropouche virus in saliva and urine samples of febrile patients in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Larissa Moraes dos Santos Fonseca, Rejane Hughes Carvalho, Antonio Carlos Bandeira, Silvia Ines Sardi, and Gubio Soares Campos
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REPORT
Single-Tube Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Detection of Genes Encoding Enterobacteriaceae Carbapenemase
Masanori Watahiki, Ryuji Kawahara, Masahiro Suzuki, Miyako Aoki, Kaoru Uchida, Yuko Matsumoto, Yuko Kumagai, Makiko Noda, Kanako Masuda, Chiemi Fukuda, Seiya Harada, Keiko Senba, Masato Suzuki, Mari Matsui, Satowa Suzuki, Keigo Shibayama, and Hiroto Shinomiya
LABORATORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS
Examination of the efficient HIV confirmatory testing protocol using HIV-1/2 antibody differentiation assay
Mami Nagashima, Ryota Kumagai, Yurie Kitamura, Saori Matsuoka, Akifumi Imamura, Takashi Chiba, and Kenji Sadamasu