Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases
Vol. 63 No. 2, P. 83-156, 2010
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Rotavirus Antigenemia and Genomia in Children with Rotavirus Gastroenteritis
Yukihiko Fujita, Bisei Liu, Ryutaro Kohira, Tatsuo Fuchigami, Hideo Mugishima, Hiroyuki Izumi, Mitsutaka Kuzuya, Ritsushi Fujii, Masako Hamano, and Hajime Ogura
pages 83-86 [Summary] [PDF]
The Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Phenotypic Drug Resistance Prediction: Evaluation and Comparison with Other Interpretation Systems
Ekawat Pasomsub, Chonlaphat Sukasem, Somnuek Sungkanuparph, Boonserm Kijsirikul, and Wasun Chantratita
pages 87-94 [Summary] [PDF]
The Rate of Device-Associated Nosocomial Infections in a Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit of a Training and Research Hospital in Turkey: One-Year Outcomes
Arzu Dogru, Fatma Sargin, Melek Celik, Ayse Esra Sagiroglu, Melek Meltem Goksel, and Havva Sayhan
pages 95-98 [Summary] [PDF]
Comparison of Tuberculin Skin Testing and T-SPOT.TB for Diagnosis of Latent and Active Tuberculosis
Hulya Simsek, Sibel Alpar, Nazire Ucar, Funda Aksu, Ismail Ceyhan, Aysegul Gozalan, Salih Cesur, and Mustafa Ertek
pages 99-102 [Summary] [PDF]
Powder Infant Formula Milk Contaminated with Enterobacter sakazakii
Kenji Oonaka, Katsunori Furuhata, Motonobu Hara, and Masafumi Fukuyama
pages 103-107 [Summary] [PDF]
Analysis of Bordetella pertussis Agglutinin Titers during an Outbreak of Pertussis at a University in Japan
Hiroshi Kamano, Tomomi Mori, Hajime Maeta, Tomohiko Taminato, Toshihiko Ishida, Nobuhito Kishimoto, Tomohiko Katami, Makoto Sato, Kazunari Kamachi, and Yoshiyuki Mochida
pages 108-112 [Summary] [PDF]
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Virulence Genes, Quinolone and Fluoroquinolone Resistance, and Phylogenetic Background of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains Isolated in Japan
Kumiko Kawamura-Sato, Risa Yoshida, Keigo Shibayama, and Michio Ohta
pages 113-115 [Summary] [PDF]
Assorted Ribotypes of Vibrio vulnificus Human and Environmental Isolates
Shukho Kim, Sung-Hun Kim, Seong-Han Kim, Semi Jeon, and Bok Kwon Lee
pages 116-118 [Summary] [PDF]
Comparison of Ethidium Monoazide and Propidium Monoazide for the Selective Detection of Viable Legionella Cells
Bin Chang, Toshitsugu Taguri, Kanji Sugiyama, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Fumiaki Kura, and Haruo Watanabe
pages 119-123 [Summary] [PDF]
Microbial Contamination of Suction Tubes Attached to Suction Instruments and Preventive Methods
Katsuhiro Yorioka, Shigeharu Oie, and Akira Kamiya
pages 124-127 [Summary] [PDF]
Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Adults: a Hospital Based Study in Yemen
Amin Abdulrab, Faker Algobaty, Ahmed K. Salem, and Mohammed Y. A. K.
pages 128-131 [Summary] [PDF]
The Prevalence of Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in Different Types and Sites of Lymphomas
Yang Zhang, Jinyun Peng, Yunlian Tang, Jie He, Juan Peng, Qiang Zhao, Rongfang He, Xiaoli Xie, Xueqin Peng, and Runliang Gan
pages 132-135 [Summary] [PDF]
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REPORT
Discrimination of Entamoeba moshkovskii in Patients with Gastrointestinal Disorders by Single-Round PCR
Ehsan Nazemalhosseini Mojarad, Zahra Nochi, Navid Sahebekhtiari, Mohammad Rostami Nejd, Hossein Dabiri, Mohammad Reza Zali, Bahram Kazemi, and Ali Haghighi
pages 136-138 [Summary] [PDF]
LABORATORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS
Phylogenetic Analysis of Human Metapneumovirus from Children with Acute Respiratory Infection in Yamaguchi, Japan, during Summer 2009
Shoichi Toda, Hirokazu Kimura, Masahiro Noda, Katsumi Mizuta, Tomomi Matsumoto, Eitaro Suzuki, and Komei Shirabe
pages 139-140 [Title page] [PDF]
The Parental Strain of the Attenuated Virus (vOka) Used in the Varicella Vaccine Is Circulating in China: Implications for Vaccine Surveillance
Lin Gan, Mingli Wang, Jingjing Liu, Sen Yang, and Jason Chen
pages 141-143 [Tital page] [PDF]
Outbreak of Mesotherapy-Associated Cutaneous Infections Caused by Mycobacterium chelonae in Colombia
Nidia E. Correa, Juan Carlos Catano, Gloria Isabel Mejia, Teresa Realpe, Beatriz Orozco, Santiago Estrada, Alejandro Velez, Lazaro Velez, Paulina Baron, Angela Guzman, and Jaime Robledo
pages 143-145 [Title page] [PDF]
An Outbreak of Food Poisoning Due to Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 in Niigata, Japan
Kanako Watanabe, Akiko Murayama , Naomi Kogure, Masao Kawase, and Yuki Kimura
pages 146-147 [Title page] [PDF]
Common Features of 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic in Different Parts of the World Revealed by Log-Log Plot of the Cumulative Numbers of Infected and Deceased Cases
Hiroshi Yoshikura
pages 148-149 [Title page] [PDF]
Evaluation of False-Positive Reaction with ELISA for the Detection of Chlamydophila pneumoniae-Specific IgM Antibody in Adults
Naoyuki Miyashita, Yasuhiro Kawai, Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Kazunobu Ouchi, Yoshihiro Kobashi, and Mikio Oka
pages 150-151 [Title page] [PDF]
Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 in Outbreak of Food Poisoning Caused by Formed Beef Chunk Steaks
Takeshi Sakai, Sumiko Tanabe, Misao Hashida, Hisako Ohmae, and Yoshiteru Kitahori
pages 152-153 [Title page] [PDF]
The Relationship between the Cumulative Numbers of Cases and Deaths Reveals the Confirmed Case Fatality Ratio of a Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus
Hiroshi Nishiura
pages 154-156 [Title page] [PDF]