Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Vol. 64 No. 1, P. 1-94, 2011


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REVIEW

A Personal Recollection of Smallpox Eradication with the Benefit of Hindsight: in Commemoration of 30th Anniversary

Isao Arita
pages 1-6 [Summary] [PDF]

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Vibrio cholerae Clinically Isolated in Surabaya, Indonesia

Tomoyuki Nishibori, Garry Cores de Vries, Dadik Rahardjo, Eddy Bagus Wasito, Ismoedijanto De, Shouhiro Kinoshita, Yoshitake Hayashi, Hak Hotta, Masato Kawabata, Toshiro Shirakawa, Yoshio Iijima, and Ro Osawa
pages 7-12 [Summary] [PDF]

An Enterovirus 71 Epidemic in Guangdong Province of China, 2008: Epidemiological, Clinical, and Virogenic Manifestations

Sun Li-mei, Zheng Huan-ying, Zheng Hui-zhen, Guo Xue, He Jian-feng, Guan Da-wei, Kang Min, Liu Zheng, Ke Chang-wen, Li Jian-sen, Liu Leng, Guo Ru-ning, Hiromu Yoshida, and Lin Jin-yan
pages 13-18 [Summary] [PDF]

Evaluation of a Cytolethal Distending Toxin (cdt) Gene-Based Species-Specific Multiplex PCR Assay for the Identification of Campylobacter Strains Isolated from Diarrheal Patients in Japan

S. M. Lutful Kabir, Ken Kikuchi, Masahiro Asakura, Sachi Shiramaru, Naoki Tsuruoka, Aeko Goto, Atsushi Hinenoya, and Shinji Yamasaki
pages 19-27 [Summary] [PDF]

Characterization of SCCmec Types and Antibacterial Susceptibility Patterns of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Southern Iran

Aziz Japoni, Marzieh Jamalidoust, Shohrah Farshad, Mazyar Ziyaeyan, Abdolvahab Alborzi, Sara Japoni, and Norradin Rafaatpour
pages 28-33 [Summary] [PDF]

Oral and Cervical Human Papillomavirus Infection among Female Sex Workers in Japan

Kaori Matsushita, Toshiyuki Sasagawa, Michiko Miyashita, Azumi Ishizaki, Atsushi Morishita, Norimitsu Hosaka, Kunikazu Saikawa, Shinji Hoshina, Xiuqiong Bi, and Hiroshi Ichimura
pages 34-39 [Summary] [PDF]

Passive Immune-Prophylaxis against Influenza Virus Infection by the Expression of Neutralizing Anti-Hemagglutinin Monoclonal Antibodies from Plasmids

Tatsuya Yamazaki, Maria Nagashima, Daisuke Ninomiya, Yuka Arai, Yasutomo Teshima, Akira Fujimoto, Akira Ainai, Hideki Hasegawa, and Joe Chiba
pages 40-49 [Summary] [PDF]

Experimental Transmission of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) to Cynomolgus Macaques, a Non-Human Primate

Fumiko Ono, Keiji Terao, Naomi Tase, Akio Hiyaoka, Atsushi Ohyama, Yukio Tezuka, Naomi Wada, Asuka Kurosawa, Yuko Sato, Minoru Tobiume, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Yoshio Yamakawa, and Tetsutaro Sata
pages 50-54 [Summary] [PDF]

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Prevalence of Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance in Escherichia coli Isolates in Wenzhou, Southern China, 2002-2008

Tie-Li Zhou, Xue-Jun Chen, Ming-Ming Zhou, Yu-Jie Zhao, Xin-Hua Luo, and Qi-Yu Bao
pages 55-57 [Summary] [PDF]

Fatal Necrotizing Pneumonia Caused by Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Producing Hospital-Acquired Staphylococcus aureus: a Case Report

Hassanain Al-Talib, Habsah Hasan, Chan Yean Yean, Sami M. Al-Ashwal, and Manickam Ravichandran
pages 58-60 [Summary] [PDF]

A Case of Sepsis and Meningitis Caused by Probable Travel-Related Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B Infection: the First Report of N. meningitidis ST-4893 in Japan

Asami Nakayama, Hideyuki Takahashi, Kiyofumi Ohkusu, Katsuo Yamanaka, Chiyo Shintani, Satoshi Hayakawa, Junichi Ishii, and Haruo Watanabe
pages 61-62 [Summary] [PDF]

Application of a Multilocus Variable Number of Tandem Repeats Analysis to Regional Outbreak Surveillance of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infections

Takayuki Konno, Jun Yatsuyanagi, and Shioko Saito
pages 63-65 [Summary] [PDF]

Biotyping, Capsular Typing, and Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Haemophilus influenzae Strains in Iran

Naheed Mojgani, Mohammad Rahbar, Morteza Taqizadeh, Mehdi Perveen Ashtiani, and Mona Mohammadzadeh
pages 66-68 [Summary] [PDF]

High Prevalence of Metallo-Beta-Lactamase-Producing Acinetobacter baumannii in a Teaching Hospital in Tabriz, Iran

Amir Peymani, Mohammad-Reza Nahaei, Safar Farajnia, Alka Hasani, Akbar Mirsalehian, Nasrollah Sohrabi, and Laleh Abbasi
pages 69-71 [Summary] [PDF]

Serological Evidence of Thailand Virus-Related Hantavirus Infection among Suspected Leptospirosis Patients in Kandy, Sri Lanka

Chandika D. Gamage, Shumpei P. Yasuda, Sanae Nishio, Senanayake A. Kularatne, Kosala Weerakoon, Jayanthe Rajapakse, Chinyere Nwafor-Okoli, Romeo B. Lee, Yoshi Obayashi, Kumiko Yoshimatsu, Jiro Arikawa, and Hiko Tamashiro
pages 72-75 [Summary] [PDF]

Influence of Menstruation on the Microbiota of Healthy Women's Labia Minora as Analyzed Using a 16S rRNA Gene-Based Clone Library Method

Tsukasa Shiraishi, Kazumasa Fukuda, Nobuo Morotomi, Yuri Imamura, Junko Mishima, Shigeo Imai, Kiyoshi Miyazawa, and Hatsumi Taniguchi
pages 76-80 [Summary] [PDF]

Atypical L-Type Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (L-BSE) Transmission to Cynomolgus Macaques, a Non-Human Primate

Fumiko Ono, Naomi Tase, Asuka Kurosawa, Akio Hiyaoka, Atsushi Ohyama, Yukio Tezuka, Naomi Wada, Yuko Sato, Minoru Tobiume, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Yoshio Yamakawa, Keiji Terao, and Tetsutaro Sata
pages 81-84 [Summary] [PDF]

LABORATORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS

Detection of Human Metapneumovirus Genomes during an Outbreak of Bronchitis and Pneumonia in a Geriatric Care Home in Shimane, Japan, in Autumn 2009

Tamaki Omura, Setsuko Iizuka, Kenji Tabara, Hiroyuki Tsukagoshi, Katsumi Mizuta, Shunji Matsuda, Masahiro Noda, and Hirokazu Kimura
pages 85-87 [Title page] [PDF]

Detection of Various Respiratory Viruses in Patients with Influenza-Like Illness before and after Emergence of the 2009 Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Virus in Okinawa

Masaji Nakamura, Katsuya Taira, Hiroyuki Tsukagoshi, Kiyomasa Itokazu, Minoru Nidaira, Shou Okano, Jun Kudaka, Masahiro Noda, Makoto Takeda, and Hirokazu Kimura
pages 87-89 [Title page] [PDF]

Virus-Related Lower Respiratory Inflammation: Detection of Human Metapneumovirus from Severe Pneumonia Cases with A/H1N1pdm Virus

Kyoko Akiyoshi, Takuya Tamura, Tsunekazu Haruta, and Influenza Examination Team of Kobe Institute of Health
pages 89-91 [Title page] [PDF]

A New Method for Monitoring and Forecasting the Case-Fatality Rate in Ongoing Epidemics and Its Evaluation Using Published Data of SARS in 2003, H1N1 Pandemic in 2009/2010, Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease in China in 2009/2010, and Cholera in Haiti in 2010

Hiroshi Yoshikura
page 92-94 [Title page] [PDF]


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