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<P><B><FONT SIZE="+2">Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases</FONT></B></P>


<P><B><FONT SIZE="+1">Vol. 61 No. 1, P. 1-94, 2008</FONT></B></P>


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<P><B><U>ORIGINAL ARTICLES</U></B></P>


<P><B>Speciation of Fecal <I>Candida</I> Isolates in Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea in Non-HIV Patients</B></P>


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  <P>Chetana Vaishnavi, Sukhminderjit Kaur and Shiva Prakash<BR>

  pages 1-4 [<A HREF="1.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="1.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Immunocompromised Group Differences in the Presentation of Intestinal Strongyloidiasis</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Premjit Vaiyavatjamai, John J. Boitano, Patsharaporn Techasintana and Anchalee Tungtrongchitr<BR>

  pages 5-8 [<A HREF="5.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="5.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Characterization of Mouse 3T3-Swiss Albino Cells Available in Japan: Necessity of Quality

Control When Used as Feeders</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Takamasa Takeuchi, Lina Wang, Seiichiro Mori, Keiichi Nakagawa, Hiroshi Yoshikura and Tadahito Kanda<BR>

  pages 9-12 [<A HREF="9.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="9.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B><I>qnrA</I> Prevalence in Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Positive <I>Enterobacteriaceae</I> Isolates from Turkey</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>I. Mehmet Ali Oktem, Zeynep Gulay, Meral Bicmen, Deniz Gur and The HITIT Project Study Group<BR>

  pages 13-17 [<A HREF="13.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="13.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Clinical Application of Reverse-Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction and Intravenous 

Immunoglobulin for Enterovirus Encephalitis</B></P>


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  <P>Ming-Fang Cheng, Bao-Chen Chen, Tsi-Shu Huang, Kai-Sheng Hsieh, Shu-Nuan Chen and Yung-Ching Liu<BR>

  pages 18-24 [<A HREF="18.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="18.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Factors Associated with Treatment Success for Tuberculosis Patients: a Single Center's Experience in Turkey</B></P>


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  <P>Fahrettin Talay, Senol Kumbetli and Sedat Altin<BR>

  pages 25-30 [<A HREF="25.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="25.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Soluble Form of Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells-1 (sTREM-1) as a Diagnostic Marker 

of Serious Bacterial Infection in Febrile Infants Less Than Three Months of Age</B></P>


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  <P>Hsiu-Lin Chen, Chih-Hsing Hung, Hsing-I Tseng and Rei-Cheng Yang<BR>

  pages 31-35 [<A HREF="31.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="31.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Prevalence of Mycoplasma and Chlamydia Pneumonia in Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia among 

Hospitalized Children in Thailand</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Rujipat Samransamruajkit,Siriwan Jitchaiwat, Witan Wachirapaes, Jitladda Deerojanawong, 

Suchada Sritippayawan and Nuanchan Prapphal<BR>

  pages 36-39 [<A HREF="36.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="36.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Accumulation of T-Cells with Selected T-Cell Receptors in the Brains of Japanese Encephalitis Virus-Infected Mice</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Yoshiki Fujii, Kazutaka Kitaura, Kazuo Nakamichi, Tomohiko Takasaki, Ryuji Suzuki and Ichiro Kurane<BR>

  pages 40-48 [<A HREF="40.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="40.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Current Trends of Opportunistic Infections among HIV-Seropositive Patients from Eastern India</B></P>


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  <P>Nilanjan Chakraborty, Anirban Mukherjee, Santanu Santra, Rathindra Nath Sarkar, Dipanjan Banerjee, Shubhashish Kamal Guha, 

Sekhar Chakraborty and Sujit Kumar Bhattacharyya<BR>

  page 49-53 [<A HREF="49.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="49.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Rarity of Bacterial and Viral Meningitis in Areas of Western Greece with Fewer than 2,000 Inhabitants</B></P>


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  <P>Giannakopoulos Ioannis, Leotsinidis Michael, Diamantopoulos Stavros, Makrakis Konstantinos, 

Ellina Aikaterini, Giannakopoulos Agelos and Papanastasiou Dimitris, A<BR>

  pages 54-57 [<A HREF="54.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="54.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Molecular Characterization of Enterohemorrhagic <I>Escherichia coli</I> O157:H7 Isolates Dispersed across 

Japan by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis and Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Yingxin Pei, Jun Terajima, Yasunori Saito, Reiko Suzuki, Nobuko Takai, Hidemasa Izumiya, Tomoko Morita-Ishihara, 

Makoto Ohnishi, Masashi Miura, Sunao Iyoda, Jiro Mitobe, Binyou Wang and Haruo Watanabe<BR>

  pages 58-64 [<A HREF="58.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="58.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B><U>SHORT COMMUNICATIONS</U></B></P>


<P><B>Molecular Characterization of Clinical Varicella-Zoster Strains from India and Differentiation from the Vaccine Oka Strain</B></P>


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  <P>Karishma S. Kaushik, Kunal K. Lahiri, Sushil K. Chumber, Rajiv M. Gupta, Satish Kumar, Ketoki Kapila and Santosh Karade<BR>

  pages 65-67 [<A HREF="65.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="65.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Validity of the CA125 Level in the Differential Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Sefa Levent Ozsahin, Bulent Turgut, Naim Nur, Omer Tamer Dogan, Taner Erselcan and Serdar Berk<BR>

  pages 68-69 [<A HREF="68.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="68.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Nasal Carriage of <I>Staphylococcus aureus</I> in Healthy Preschool Children</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Muge Oguzkaya-Artan, Zeynep Baykan and Cem Artan<BR>

  pages 70-72 [<A HREF="70.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="70.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Transmission of “a” Determinant Variants of Hepatitis B Virus in Immunized Babies 

Born to HBsAg Carrier Mothers</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Vijayakumar Velu, Shanmugam Saravanan, Subhadra Nandakumar, Elumalei Dhevahi, Esaki Muthu Shankar, Kailapuri Gangatharan Murugavel, 

Thangaraj Kumarasamy and Sadras Panchatcharam Thyagarajan<BR>

  pages 73-76 [<A HREF="73.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="73.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B><I>Mycobacterium monacense</I> in a Patient with a Pulmonary Tumor</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Michael Hogardt, Anna Maria Schreff, Ludmila Naumann, Udo Reischl 

and Andreas Sing<BR>

  pages 77-78 [<A HREF="77.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="77.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis B Virus, and Hepatitis C Virus in Three Groups of 

Populations at High Risk of HIV Infection in Amritsar (Punjab), Northern India</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Neerja Jindal, Usha Arora and Kamaldeep Singh<BR>

  pages 79-81 [<A HREF="79.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="79.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Trends in Antibiotic Sensitivity Pattern and Molecular Detection of <I>tet</I>(O)-Mediated 

Tetracycline Resistance in <I>Campylobacter jejuni</I> Isolates from Human and Poultry Sources</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Waleed Mazi, Abiola Senok, Ali Al-Mahmeed, Alessandra Arzese, Khalid Bindayna and Giuseppe Botta<BR>

  pages 82-84 [<A HREF="82.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="82.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Assay for Integrons and Pattern of Antibiotic Resistance in Clinical <I>Escherichia coli</I> Strains 

by PCR-RFLP in Southern Iran</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Aziz Japoni, Medhi Gudarzi, Shohreh Farshad, Ezzatollah Basiri, Mazyar Ziyaeyan, Abdolvahab Alborzi and 

Noraladin Rafaatpour<BR>

  pages 85-88 [<A HREF="85.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="85.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B><U>LABORATORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS</U></B></P>


<P><B>Detection and Genetic Characterization of Sporadic Noroviruses in Nara Prefecture 

between April 2006 and September 2007</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Yoshiteru Kitahori, Yumiko Inoue and Yoshitaka Imanishi<BR>

  pages 89-90 [<A HREF="89.html">Title page</A>] [<A HREF="89.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>An Imported Dengue Fever Case by Dengue Virus 3 (DENV-3) Infection in Gunma, Japan</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Yukio Morita, Hayato Kogure, Mitsuru Sandoh, Gihei Kawashima, Yoshitake Sato, Sadao Nanba, Yoshihiro Shoda, 

Tomoyuki Suzuki, Masataka Shiono, Masae Shiobara, 

Masahiko Kato, Kunihisa Kozawa, Masahiro Noda, Nobuhiko Okabe and Hirokazu Kimura<BR>

  pages 90-92 [<A HREF="90.html">Title page</A>] [<A HREF="90.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>An Enterohemorrhagic <I>Escherichia coli</I> O26 Outbreak at a Nursery School in Miyazaki, Japan</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Chigusa Sonoda, Asako Tagami, Daizo Nagatomo, Satoko Yamada, Rieko Fuchiwaki, Masaru Haruyama, Yoko Nakamura, Kimiko Kawano, 

Mika Okada, Yoko Shioyama, Kazunori Iryoda, Hideo Wakamatu and Yoshio Hidaka<BR>

  pages 92-93 [<A HREF="92.html">Title page</A>] [<A HREF="92.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Positivity Rate of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen in 16-Year-Old First-Time Blood Donors: Effectiveness 

of Immunoprophylaxis 

with Hepatitis B Vaccine and Immunoglobulin in Newborn Infants with Mothers Positive for Hepatitis B e Antigen</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Shigeharu Uchida and Kenji Tadokoro<BR>

  page 94 [<A HREF="94.html">Title page</A>] [<A HREF="94.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


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