Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases
Vol. 57 No. 3, P. 91-135, 2004
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Original Articles
Down-Regulation of CXCR4 Expression in MT4 Cells by a Recombinant
Vector Expressing Antisense RNA to CXCR4 and Its Potential Anti-
HIV-1 Effect
Hui Chun Xing, Xiao Yuan Xu, Zhen Liu, Qin Huan Wang,
Min Yu and Chong Wen Si
pages 91-96 [Summary] [PDF]
Tetanus Antibody Assay Combining In-House ELISA and Particle
Agglutination Test and Its Serosurvey Application in a Province
in Turkey
Nilay Coplu, Berrin Esen, Aysegul Gozalan, Kikuko Miyamura,
Iwao Yoshida, Demet Kurtoglu, Nuvide Ozturk Dogan, Gokhan Afacan,
Ahmet Unal, Setsuji Ishida and Motohide Takahashi
pages 97-102 [Summary] [PDF]
Factors Improving the Propagation of Simkania negevensis Strain Z
in Cell Culture
Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Miyuki Inoue,
Motohiko Ogawa, Sadashi Shiga, Yuichi Nakagawa,
Toshio Kishimoto, Kazunobu Ouchi and Takehiko Ohzeki
pages 103-106 [Summary] [PDF]
Short Communications
Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae from Ticks Captured in Sudan
Chiharu Morita, Abdel Rahim Mohamed El Hussein,
Etsuro Matsuda, Khalil Mohamed Ali Abdel Gabbar,
Yasukazu Muramatsu, Magdi Badawi Abdel Rahman,
Ali Mohamed Hassan Eleragi, Shawgi Mohamed Hassan,
Agnes Mumbi Chitambo and Hiroshi Ueno
pages 107-109 [Summary] [PDF]
The Absence of Anti-Rabies Antibody in the Sera of Feral Raccoons
(Procyon lotor) Captured in Hokkaido, Japan
Satoshi Inoue, Makoto Asano, Yurie Motoi, Takashi Makino
and Akio Yamada
pages 110-112 [Summary] [PDF]
Serotypes of Clinical Cerebrospinal Fluid Cryptococcus neoformans
Isolates from Southern Taiwan and Their In Vitro Susceptibilities
to Amphotericin B, Fluconazole, and Voriconazole
Wen-Neng Chang, Chi-Ren Huang, Chien-Bang Lei, Ping-Yu Lee,
Chun-Chih Chien, Hsueh-Wen Chang, Chen-Sheng Chang and
Cheng-Hsien Lu
pages 113-115 [Summary] [PDF]
Emergence of Nalidixic Acid Resistance in Shigella sonnei Isolated
from Patients Having Acute Diarrheal Disease: Report from Eastern
Province of Saudi Arabia
Bodh Raj Panhotra, Anil Kumar Saxena and Khalifa Al-Mulhim
pages 116-118 [Summary] [PDF]
Contribution of Exotoxin A of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Acute
and Chronic Experimental Renal Infection
Saroj Sharma, Ramanjeet Kaur, Vanashree Yadav, Kusum Harjai
and Kusum Joshi
pages 119-120 [Summary] [PDF]
Oral Polio Vaccines Have Not Yet Covered West Africa: Survey of
Immunization Coverage Conducted in Niger
Yumi Akano, Hiroko Ando, Ai Tanaka, Harue Uchida,
Kimihiro Fujii, Masakazu Takayanagi, Adamou Magagi,
Miyuki Nakene and Takashi Nakano
pages 121-123 [Summary] [PDF]
Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy due to Mycobacterial Infection
Mehmet Meral, Metin Akgun, Hasan Kaynar, Arzu Mirici,
Metin Gorguner, Leyla Saglam and Fazli Erdogan
pages 124-126 [Summary] [PDF]
Laboratory and Epidemiology Communications
Isolation of Echovirus Type 13 in Osaka City during 2001-2002
Atsushi Kaida, Hideyuki Kubo, Nobuhiro Iritani,
Tsukasa Murakami and Kosuke Haruki
pages 127-128 [HTML] [PDF]
Newly Developed TaqMan Assay to Detect West Nile Viruses in
a Wide Range of Viral Strains
Shuzo Usuku, Yuzo Noguchi and Tomohiko Takasaki
pages 129-130 [HTML] [PDF]
Identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Clinical Strains
Harboring the blaVIM-2 Metallo-beta-Lactamase Gene in Akita
Prefecture, Japan
Jun Yatsuyanagi, Shioko Saito, Yuko Ito, Kazuko Ohta,
Jun Kato, Seizaburo Harata, Noriyuki Suzuki
and Ken-ichi Amano
pages 130-132 [HTML] [PDF]
Simple Approximate Backcalculation Method Applied to Estimate
HIV Prevalence in Japan
Hiroshi Nishiura, Hideki Yanai, Takashi Yoshiyama and
Masayuki Kakehashi
pages 133-135 [HTML] [PDF]
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