Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Vol. 58 No. 3, P. 125-193, 2005

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Invited Reviews
The Interaction of HIV-1 with the Host Factors
     Jun Komano, Yuko Futahashi, Emiko Urano, Kosuke Miyauchi,
     Tsutomu Murakami, Zene Matsuda and Naoki Yamamoto
     pages 125-130 [Summary] [PDF]

Sphingolipids in Infectious Diseases
     Kentaro Hanada
     pages 131-148 [Summary] [PDF] 

Original Articles
Spontaneous Resolution of Hemophagocytic Syndrome and Disseminated
Intravascular Coagulation Associated with Parvovirus B19 Infection
in a Previously Healthy Child
     Zuhre Kaya, Gulyuz Ozturk, Turkiz Gursel and Gulendam Bozdayi
     pages 149-151 [Summary] [PDF]

Which Patients Are Able To Adhere to Tuberculosis Treatment?
A Study in a Rural Area in the Northwest Part of Turkey
     Oner Balbay, Ali Nihat Annakkaya, Peri Arbak, Cahit Bilgin 
     and Mete Erbas
     pages 152-158 [Summary] [PDF]
 
Increasing Antimicrobial Resistance in Escherichia coli Isolates
from Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections during 1998-2003
in Manisa, Turkey
     Semra Kurutepe, Suheyla Surucuoglu, Cenk Sezgin, Horu Gazi,
     Mehmet Gulay and Beril Ozbakkaloglu
     pages 159-161 [Summary] [PDF]

Molecular Characterization of TEM- and SHV-Derived Extended-
Spectrum Beta-Lactamases in Hospital-Based Enterobacteriaceae
in Turkey
     Huseyin Tasli and I. Hakki Bahar
     pages 162-167 [Summary] [PDF]

Short Communications
Clinical Characteristics of Adult Escherichia coli Meningitis
     Tzu-Ming Yang, Cheng-Hsien Lu, Chi-Ren Huang, Hui-Hong Tsai,
     Nai-Wen Tsai, Ping-Yu Lee, Chun-Chih Chien and 
     Wen-Neng Chang
     pages 168-170 [Summary] [PDF]

Value of Surveillance Blood Cultures in Neutropenic Patients -
A Pilot Study
     Olaf Penack, Ullrich Keilholz, Eckhard Thiel and 
     Igor Wolfgang Blau
     pages 171-173 [Summary] [PDF]

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Blood Isolates from
a Teaching Hospital in North India
      Manjula Mehta, Priya Dutta and Varsha Gupta
      pages 174-176 [Summary] [PDF]

Spinal Epidural Abscess Caused by Group B Streptococcus in 
a Diabetic Woman Presenting with Febrile Low Back Pain
     Shyi-Yu Chung, Chia-Hung Chen and Wen-Liang Yu
     pages 177-179 [Summary] [PDF]

Evaluation of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Analysis Performed
at Selected Prefectural Institutes of Public Health for Use in
PulseNet
     Masakado Matsumoto, Yasumoto Suzuki, Hideki Nagano,
     Jun Yatsuyanagi, Hajime Kurosawa, Kazuhiro Kobayashi,
     Koji Yamaoka, Kazumi Horikawa, Jun Kudaka, Jun Terajima,
     Haruo Watanabe and Yutaka Miyazaki
     pages 180-183 [Summary] [PDF]

Molecular Evidence of the Dispersal of Lyme Disease Borrelia
from the Asian Continent to Japan via Migratory Birds
     Fubito Ishiguro, Nobuhiro Takada and Toshiyuki Masuzawa
     pages 184-186 [Summary] [PDF]

Laboratory and Epidemiology Communications
Mycobacterium branderi Isolated from Pus of a Right Pulmonary
Cavitary Lesion
     Isamu Sugawara, Yuko Kazumi, Koji Otomo, Kosuke Ooki,
     Satoshi Mitarai and Ken-ichi Mori
     pages 187-188 [Title page] [PDF]

An Outbreak of Food Poisoning Caused by an Enteropathogenic
Escherichia coli O115:H19 in Miyagi Prefecture
     Noriyuki Saito, Michi Kawano, Taeko Kobayashi, 
     Setsu Watanabe, Waka Yamada, Juro Yatsu, Kazuo Kawamukai
     and Kazuo Akiyama
     pages 189-190 [Title page] [PDF]

Outbreak of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O121 among
School Children Exposed to Cattle in a Ranch for Public 
Education on Dairy Farming
     Yoko Akiba, Tomoko Kimura, Miyoshi Takagi, Toru Akimoto,
     Yoshio Mitsui, Yoshihiro Ogasawara and Masayoshi Omichi
     pages 190-192 [Title page] [PDF]

A Fatal Food Intoxication Case due to Salmonella Haifa
     Haruki Kaibu, Hideaki Higashine, Kunihiro Iida, 
     Shinsuke Ueki and Hiroko Ehara
     pages 192-193 [Title page] [PDF]


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