Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Vol. 53 No. 2, P. 47-91, 2000


Reviews
Development of a Live Varicella Vaccine - Past and Future
     Michiaki Takahashi
     pages 47-55 [SUMMARY][PDF]

Japanese Scrapie Cases
     Takashi Onodera and Keiichi Saeki
     pages 56-61 [SUMMARY][PDF]

Original Article
Effect of Sulfated Colominic Acid on Enteric Virus (Rotavirus, 
Poliovirus and Coxsackievirus) Infections In Vitro
     Kyoko Konishi, Yanhong Gu, Ikumochi Hatano and Hiroshi Ushijima
     pages 62-66 [SUMMARY][PDF]

Short Communications
Viral Load in Indonesian Patients with Chronic Liver Disease and 
in Blood Donors Infected with Different Subtypes of Hepatitis C Virus
     Maria I. Lusida, Soetjipto, Retno Handajani, Chairul A. Nidom, 
     Soemarto, Siswanto Darmadi, Pangestu Adi, Motoko Fujii, 
     Tsunenori Fujita, Satoshi Ishido and Hak Hotta
     pages 67-69 [SUMMARY][PDF]

Simultaneous Detection of Hepatitis B, C, and G Viral Genomes by
Multiplex PCR Method
     Nami Konomi, Mari Yamaguchi, Hideo Naito, Naoto Aiba, 
     Takahide Saito, Yasuyuki Arakawa and Kenji Abe
     pages 70-72 [SUMMARY][PDF]

Laboratory and Epidemiology Communications
Japanese Spotted Fever in Shimane Prefecture - Outbreak and
Place of Infection
     Asato Itagaki, Yuho Matsuda and Ken Hoshina
     pages 73-74 [Text][PDF]

Sporadic Cases of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Serotype 5 Infection
in Shodo Island, Kagawa Prefecture 
     Chizuko Sunahara, Yasuyo Yamanaka and Shigeki Yamanishi
     pages 74-75 [Text][PDF]

The Use of Colony Hybridization in the Isolation of Thermostable
Direct Hemolysin-Producing Vibrio parahaemolyticus from Foods
Implicated in an Incidence of Food Poisoning
     Noboru Numata, Makiko Ushimizu, Mayumi Ohtomo, Kyoko Chida,
     Hitomi Fujita, Takuya Saito, Dai Suto, Miyako Oguro, 
     Yasuhiko Hayakawa, Ken Sasaki, Eiji Arakawa, Toshio Shimada
     and Haruo Watanabe
     pages 75-77 [Text][PDF]

Occurrence of Scrub Typhus (Tsutsugamushi) in Kanagawa Prefecture
and Types of Orientia tsutsugamushi Involved
     Yumiko Furuya, Takashi Katayama, Miyuki Hara, Yoshiya Yoshida,
     Mitsunobu Imai and Toshikatsu Hagiwara
      pages 77-78 [Text][PDF]

An Electronic System Combining MIC2000TM and Antibiogram
Cluster Analysis for Surveillance of Methicillin-Resistant
Staphylococcus aureus in Hospitals
     Junichi Yoshida, Toshiyuki Ishimaru, Shoji Kawano and
     Motoichi Akao
      pages 79-81 [Text][PDF]

Fatal Rapidly Progressing Streptococcal Toxic Shock-Like Syndrome;
Case Report
     Miki Yokota, Tadao Hasegawa, Michio Ohta and Tatunari Satake
      pages 81-82 [Text][PDF]

Epidemiological Analysis of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Outbreaks in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by Genomic DNA Fingerprinting
Using Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis
     Aki Kaneko, Hirofumi Miyazawa, Fumiko Kirikae, Kiminori Toyooka,
     Masahito Hashimoto, Shinji Yamasaki, Mitsuharu Hasegawa, 
     Chiaki Takeuchi, Tadatoshi Kuratsuji, Morito Sumiya,
     Oichirou Kobori, Yoshio Yazaki and Teruo Kirikae
      pages 82-84 [Text][PDF]

Epidemiological Analysis of a Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Outbreak in a Surgery Ward by Genomic DNA Fingerprinting Using
Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis
     Aki Kaneko, Sosuke Kimura, Fumiko Kirikae, Kiminori Toyooka,
     Masahito Hashimoto, Mitsuharu Hasegawa, Kazuhisa Mezaki, 
     Tadatoshi Kuratsuji, Morito Sumiya, Oichirou Kobori, 
     Yoshio Yazaki and Teruo Kirikae
      pages 84-85 [Text][PDF]

Comparison of Genomic DNA Fingerprinting Using Pulsed-Field Gel
Electrophoresis and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Clinical Isolates
of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus between Chiang Mai and
Tokyo
     Prasit Tharavichitkul, Fumiko Kirikae, Aki Kaneko, 
     Masahito Hashimoto, Kiminori Toyooka, Mitsuharu Hasegawa,
     Kuniko Iwata, Tadatoshi Kuratsuji, Yoshio Yazaki, 
     Thira Sirisanthana and Teruo Kirikae
      pages 86-87 [Text][PDF]

Fv-1 Restriction of Murine Leukemia Virus May Not Necessarily Be
at Cytoplasmic-Nuclear Transport Phase
     Takashi Odawara
     pages 88-90 [Text][PDF]

Surveillance of Poliovirus-Isolates in Japan, 1999
     Tetsuo Yoneyama, Yoshiaki Karoji, Kanako Watanabe, 
     Misako Tsuchiya, Mamoru Nakano and Tatsuo Miyamura
     pages 90-91 [Text][PDF]





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