Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases
Vol. 63 No. 1, P. 1-81, 2010
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INVITED REVIEW
Drug Resistance in Leprosy
REVIEW
Estimation of the Effective Doses of Nasal-Inactivated Influenza Vaccine in Humans from Mouse-Model Experiments
Shin-ichi Tamura, Hideki Hasegawa, and Takeshi Kurata
pages 8-15 [Summary] [PDF]
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Cefazolin Plus Minocycline against a Clinical Isolate of Vibrio vulnificus: In Vitro and Animal Studies
Hung-Jen Tang, Wen-Chien Ko, Yin-Ching Chuang, Chi-Chung Chen
pages 16-18 [Summary] [PDF]
Spatial Distribution and Pyrethroid Susceptibility of Mosquito Larvae Collected from Catch Basins in Parks in Nagasaki City, Nagasaki, Japan
Hitoshi Kawada, Yoshihide Maekawa, Mayumi Abe, Kazunori Ohashi, Shin-ya Ohba, and Masahiro Takagi
pages 19-24 [Summary] [PDF]
Induction of Indistinguishable Gene Expression Patterns in Rats by Vero Cell-Derived and Mouse Brain-Derived Japanese Encephalitis Vaccines
Haruka Momose, Jun-ichi Imai, Isao Hamaguchi, Mika Kawamura, Takuo Mizukami, Seishiro Naito, Atsuko Masumi, Jun-ichi Maeyama, Kazuya Takizawa, Madoka Kuramitsu, Nobuo Nomura, Shinya Watanabe, and Kazunari Yamaguchi
pages 25-30 [Summary] [PDF]
Novel High-Speed Real-Time PCR Method (Hyper-PCR): Results from Its Application to Adenovirus Diagnosis
Tsuguto Fujimoto, Masami Konagaya, Miki Enomoto, Kunio Tsuboi, Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Takashi Kodama, and Nobuhiko Okabe
pages 31-35 [Summary] [PDF]
LAMP Using a Disposable Pocket Warmer for Anthrax Detection, a Highly Mobile and Reliable Method for Anti-Bioterrorism
Ben Hatano, Takayuki Maki, Takeyuki Obara, Hitomi Fukumoto, Kohsuke Hagisawa, Yoshitaro Matsushita, Akiko Okutani, Boldbaatar Bazartseren, Satoshi Inoue, Tetsutaro Sata, and Harutaka Katano
pages 36-40 [Summary] [PDF]
Novel ELISA Using Intracellularly Biotinylated Antigen for Detection of Antibody Following DNA Immunization
Ryuichiro Kimura, Ayako Yoda, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, and Joe Chiba
pages 41-48 [Summary] [PDF]
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Comparative Study of Gamma Interferon Production in Mice Immunized with Outer Membrane Proteins and Whole Bacteria of Brucella abortus
Seung-Bin Cha, Nabin Rayamajhi, Mi-Lan Kang, Won-Jung Lee, Min-Kyoung Shin, and Han-Sang Yoo
pages 49-51 [Summary] [PDF]
Virus Detection Using Viro-Adembeads, a Rapid Capture System for Viruses, and Plaque Assay in Intentionally Virus-Contaminated Beverages
Ben Hatano, Asato Kojima, Tetsutaro Sata, and Harutaka Katano
pages 52-54 [Summary] [PDF]
Direct Early Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis from Clinical Samples
Mandira Varma-Basil, Rakesh Pathak, Kameshwar Singh, Shailendra Kumar Dhar Dwivedi, Kushal Garima, Sujeet Kumar, Divya Sharma, Bhawna Dhiman, and Mridula Bose
pages 55-57 [Summary] [PDF]
Prevalence of Antibodies to Japanese Encephalitis Virus among Pigs in Bali and East Java, Indonesia, 2008
Atsushi Yamanaka, Kris Cahyo Mulyatno, Helen Susilowati, Eryk Hendrianto, Takako Utsumi, Mochamad Amin, Maria Inge Lusida, Soegeng Soegijanto, and Eiji Konish
pages 58-60 [Summary] [PDF]
Mycobacterium chelonae Complex Bacteremia from a Post-Renal Transplant Patient: Case Report and Literature Review
Ali Mohammed Somily, Awadh Raheel AL-Anazi, Hanan Ahmed Babay, Abdulkarim Ibraheem AL-Aska, Mugbil Ahmed AL-Hedaithy,Waleed Khalid Al-Hamoudi, Ahmad Amer Al Boukai,Mohammed Sarwar Sabri, Sahar Isa AlThawadi, and Abdelmageed Mohamed Kambal
pages 61-64 [Summary] [PDF]
A Case of Chikungunya Fever Imported from India to Japan, Follow-Up of Specific IgM and IgG Antibodies over a 6-Month Period
Ikuko Aoyama, Kenji Uno, Takahiro Yumisashi, Tomohiko Takasaki, Chang-Kweng Lim, Ichiro Kurane, Tetsuo Kase, and Kazuo Takahashi
pages 65-66 [Summary] [PDF]
The First Autopsy Case of Pandemic Influenza (A/H1N1pdm) Virus Infection in Japan: Detection of a High Copy Number of the Virus in Type II Alveolar Epithelial Cells by Pathological and Virological Examination
Noriko Nakajima, Satoru Hata, Yuko Sato, Minoru Tobiume, Harutaka Katano, Keiko Kaneko, Noriyo Nagata, Michiyo Kataoka, Akira Ainai, Hideki Hasegawa, Masato Tashiro, Makoto Kuroda, Tamami Odai, Nobuyuki Urasawa, Tomoyoshi Ogino, Hiroaki Hanaoka, Masahide Watanabe, and Tetsutaro Sata
pages 67-71 [Summary] [PDF]
Sudden Death of a Patient with Pandemic Influenza (A/H1N1pdm) Virus Infection by Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Akihiro Takiyama, Lei Wang, Mishie Tanino, Taichi Kimura, Naoki Kawagishi, Yasuyuki Kunieda, Harutaka Katano, Noriko Nakajima, Hideki Hasegawa, Tomoyuki Takagi, Hiroshi Nishihara, Tetsutaro Sata, and Shinya Tanaka
pages 72-74 [Summary] [PDF]
LABORATORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS
Different Genotypic Sapoviruses Detected in Two Simultaneous Outbreaks of Gastroenteritis among Schoolchildren in the Same School District in Hokkaido, Japan
Masahiro Miyoshi, Shima Yoshizumi, Naritoshi Kanda, Toshio Karino, Hideki Nagano, Shinichi Kudo, Motohiko Okano, and Setsuko Ishida
pages 75-78 [Title page] [PDF]
A Case of Legionella Pneumonia Linked to a Hot Spring Facility in Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Hajime Kurosawa, Masahiro Fujita, Satoshi Kobatake, Hirokazu Kimura, Mitsuko Ohshima, Akira Nagai, Shingaku Kaneko, Yasuki Iwasaki, and Kunihisa Kozawa
pages 78-79 [Title page] [PDF]
Echinococcus multilocularis Detected in Slaughtered Pigs in Aomori, the Northernmost Prefecture of Mainland Japan
Masaaki Kimura, Akira Toukairin, Hajime Tatezaki, Seiko Tanaka, Kunihiro Harada, Junichirou Araiyama, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Hiromu Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Morishima, and Masanori Kawanaka
pages 80-81 [Title page] [PDF]