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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. 2, P. 95-167, 2008</FONT></B></P>


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


<P><B>Detection and Localization of Small Nuclear Ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) in Trypanosomatids 

Using Anti-m<FONT SIZE="-1"><sub>3</sub></FONT>G Antibodies</B></P>


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  <P>Maira Cegatti Bosetto, Renato Arruda Mortara, Daniela Luz Ambrósio, Gabriela Duó Passerini, 

Marco Túlio Alves da Silva, Erica Sayuri Okuda and Regina Maria Barretto Cicarelli<BR>

  pages 95-99 [<A HREF="95.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="95.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Poisson-Model Analysis of the Risk of Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis in Japan between 1971 and 2000</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Lixin Hao, Satoshi Toyokawa and Yasuki Kobayashi<BR>

  pages 100-103 [<A HREF="100.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="100.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Investigation of Immunity Level against Diphtheria and Reinforcement of Immunity 

by Booster Vaccination for Infection Control Staff in Okayama Prefecture</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Hiroshi Nakajima, Hideaki Kariya, Ritsuko Ohata and Hajime Ogura<BR>

  pages 104-106 [<A HREF="104.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="104.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>The Emergence of Mupirocin Resistance among Clinical Isolates of Methicillin-Resistant 

<I>Staphylococcus aureus</I> in Trinidad: a First Report</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Fitzroy A. Orrett<BR>

  pages 107-110 [<A HREF="107.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="107.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Comparison of Clinical Features and Survival between Cryptococcosis in Human Immunodeficiency 

Virus (HIV)-Positive and HIV-Negative Patients</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Ubonvan Jongwutiwes, Somnuek Sungkanuparph and Sasisopin Kiertiburanakul<BR>

  pages 111-115 [<A HREF="111.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="111.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Properties of Corynephage Attachment Site and Molecular Epidemiology of 

<I>Corynebacterium ulcerans</I> Isolated from Humans and Animals in Japan</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Yukiji Seto, Takako Komiya, Masaaki Iwaki, Tomoko Kohda, Masafumi Mukamoto, Motohide Takahashi 

and Shunji Kozaki<BR>

  pages 116-122 [<A HREF="116.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="116.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Reduced Incorporation of SARS-CoV Spike Protein into Viral Particles Due to 

Amino Acid Substitutions within the Receptor Binding Domain</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Shu-Ming Li, Gui-Mei Li, Shota Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Ikuta and Takaaki Nakaya<BR>

  pages 123-127 [<A HREF="123.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="123.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


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


<P><B>Emergence of Tetracycline-Resistant <I>Vibrio cholerae</I> O1 Serotype Inaba, in Kolkata, India</B></P>


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  <P>Amit Roychowdhury, Arpita Pan, Dharitri Dutta, Asish Kumar Mukhopadhyay, T. Ramamurthy, 

Ranjan Kumar Nandy, Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya and Mihir Kumar Bhattacharya<BR>

  pages 128-129  [<A HREF="128.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="128.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Two Possible Cases of <I>Trichosporon</I> Infections in Bone-Marrow-Transplanted 

Children: the First Case of <I>T. japonicum</I> Isolated from Clinical Specimens</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Handan Agirbasli, Hulya Bilgen,  Sema Keceli Ozcan, Baris Otlu, Gulce Sinik, 

Nilgun Cerikcioglu, Riza Durmaz, Emine Can, Nevin Yalman, Gunduz Gedikoglu and Takashi Sugita<BR>

  pages 130-132  [<A HREF="130.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="130.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Two Cases of <I>Burkholderia cenocepacia</I> in Septicemic Patients</B></P>


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  <P>Vikas Gautam, Pallab Ray, Anindita Das, Peter Vandamme, Pankaj Malhotra, Subhash Varma,  

Rajesh Vijayvergiya, Jharna Mandal and Nidhi Garg<BR>

  pages 133-134 [<A HREF="133.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="133.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>CTX-M-3 Type Beta-Lactamase Producing <I>Shigella sonnei</I> Isolates from 

Pediatric Bacillary Dysentery Cases</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Ziya Cibali Acikgoz, Ozgen Koseoglu Eser and Sesin Kocagöz<BR>

  pages 135-137 [<A HREF="135.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="135.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Acute Calculous Cholecystitis Caused by <I>Candida lusitaniae</I>: an Unusual Causative 

Organism in a Patient without Underlying Malignancy</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Mustafa Yildirim, Ismet Ozaydin, Idris Sahin and Mehmet Yasar<BR>

  pages 138-139 [<A HREF="138.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="138.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Diagnosis and Assessment of Monkeypox Virus (MPXV) Infection by Quantitative PCR Assay: 

Differentiation of Congo Basin and West African MPXV Strains</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Masayuki Saijo, Yasushi Ami, Yuriko Suzaki, Noriyo Nagata, Naoko Iwata, Hideki Hasegawa, Momoko Ogata, 

Shuetsu Fukushi, Tetsuya Mizutani, Itoe Iizuka, Koji Sakai, Tetsutaro Sata, Takeshi Kurata, Ichiro Kurane 

and Shigeru Morikawa<BR>

  pages 140-142 [<A HREF="140.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="140.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Molecular Epidemiology of Adenovirus Type 3 Detected from 1994 to 2006 in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Tsuguto Fujimoto, Itsuki Hamamoto, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Masatsugu Chikahira and  Nobuhiko Okabe<BR>

  pages 143-145 [<A HREF="143.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="143.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Differences in <I>Chlamydia trachomatis</I> Cryptic Plasmid Loads in Two Types of Female 

Commercial Sex Workers in Korea</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Youngmin Byun, Hee Yoon Park, Haekung Kim and Gilho Lee<BR>

  pages 146-147 [<A HREF="146.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="146.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Comparative Research on Epidemiological Aspects of Tsutsugamushi Disease (Scrub Typhus) between Korea and Japan</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Hyeong-Ae Bang, Myeong-Jin Lee and Won-Chang Lee<BR>

  pages 148-150 [<A HREF="148.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="148.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Melioidotic Necrotizing Fasciitis Presenting as a Supraclavicular Mass</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Tsung-Liang Ma, Guan-Cheng Huang, Hung-Jen Tang and Chia-Ming Chang<BR>

  page 151-153 [<A HREF="151.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="151.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Comparison of Human Metapneumovirus Genotypes from the Province of Bolzano in Northern Italy 

with Strains from Surrounding Regions in Italy and Austria</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Clara Larcher, Elisabetta Pagani, Patrizia Rossi, Barbara Amato, Lydia Pescollderungg, 

Giulia Campanini, Elena Percivalle and Hartwig P. Huemer<BR>

  pages 154-156 [<A HREF="154.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="154.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>H5N1-Infected Cells in Lung with Diffuse Alveolar Damage in Exudative Phase from a Fatal Case 

in Vietnam</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Nguyen Thanh Liem, Noriko Nakajima, Le Phuc Phat, Yuko Sato, Hoang Ngoc Thach, 

Pham Viet Hung, Luong Thi San, Harutaka Katano, Toshio Kumasaka, Teruaki Oka, Shoji Kawachi, 

Takeji Matsushita, Tetsutaro Sata, Koichiro Kudo and Kazuo Suzuki<BR>

  pages 157-160 [<A HREF="157.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="157.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


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


<P><B>Outbreaks of Enterohemorrhagic <I>Escherichia coli</I> O157 Infections 

among Children with Animal Contact at a Dairy Farm in Yokohama City, Japan</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Tetsunori Muto, Yuko Matsumoto, Mikiko Yamada, Yukiko Ishiguro, Harue Kitazume, 

Kazuya Sasaki and Masanori Toba<BR>

  pages 161-162 [<A HREF="161.html">Title page</A>] [<A HREF="161.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Enterovirus Detection Status of Patients with Herpangina and Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease 

in Epidemic Season 2007, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Takako Sano, Takayuki Saito, Makiko Kondo, Sumi Watanabe, Yoichi Onoue, 

Minori Konnai, Yoshihiro Sato and Naomi Orihara<BR>

  pages 162-163 [<A HREF="162.html">Title page</A>] [<A HREF="162.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B>Detection of Japanese Encephalitis Virus Genome in Ryukyu Wild Boars 

(<I>Sus scrofa riukiuanus</I>) in Okinawa, Japan</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Minoru Nidaira, Katsuya Taira, Kiyomasa Itokazu, Shou Okano, Jun Kudaka, Masaji Nakamura, 

Atsusi Ohno and Tomohiko Takasaki<BR>

  pages 164-165 [<A HREF="164.html">Title page</A>] [<A HREF="164.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


<P><B><I>Salmonella enterica</I> Serotype Typhimurium Infection Causing Mortality 

in Eurasian Tree Sparrows (<I>Passer montanus</I>) in Hokkaido</B></P>


<BLOCKQUOTE>

  <P>Yumi Une, Asuka Sanbe, Satoru Suzuki, Takeshi Niwa, Kazuto Kawakami, Reiko Kurosawa, 

Hidemasa Izumiya, Haruo Watanabe and Yukio Kato<BR>

  page 166-167 [<A HREF="166.html">Title page</A>] [<A HREF="166.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>


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