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REVIEW
On Case-Fatality Rate: Review and Hypothesis
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Detection and Serotyping of Human Adenoviruses from Patients with Influenza-Like Illness in Mongolia
Kentaro Tohma, Namuuntsetsegiin Bayasgalan, Akira Suzuki, Badarchiin Darma, Hitoshi Oshitani, and Pagbajabyn Nymadawa
pages 289-294 [Summary] [PDF]
Effect of Climatic Conditions on Epidemic Patterns of Influenza in Okinawa, Japan, during the Pandemic of 2009: Surveillance of Rapid Antigen Test Results
Yoshikazu Iha, Futoshi Higa, Satoko Sunagawa, Masamitsu Naka, Haley L. Cash, Kazuya Miyagi, Shusaku Haranaga, Masao Tateyama, Tsukasa Uno, and Jiro Fujita
pages 295-300 [Summary] [PDF]
Incidence of Intussusception as Studied from a Hospital-Based Retrospective Survey over a 10-Year Period (2001–2010) in Akita Prefecture, Japan
Atsuko Noguchi, Toyoko Nakagomi, Shigeru Kimura, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Kenichi Matsuno, Hiromi Koizumi, Arata Watanabe, Hiroo Noguchi, Tadahiko Ito, Mihoko Ohtsuka, Naoya Uemura, Osamu Takeda, Akira Komatsu, Wataru Kikuchi, Masaki Komatsu, Hiroshi Fukaya, Shinobu Miura, Hiroyuki Toda, Osamu Nakagomi, and Tsutomu Takahashi
pages 301-305 [Summary] [PDF]
Rapid Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in BACTEC MGIT960 Cultures by In-House Loop-Medicated Isothermal Amplification
Janisara Rudeeaneksin, Supranee Bunchoo, Sopa Srisungngam, Pathom Sawanpanyalert, Sawet Chamnangrom, Atipa Kamolwat, Porntip Thanasripakdeekul, Tooru Taniguchi, Chie Nakajima, Yasuhiko Suzuki, and Benjawan Phetsuksiri
pages 306-311 [Summary] [PDF]
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
An Unusual Case of Fatal Pericarditis due to Listeria monocytogenes
Mélanie Delvallée, Nicolas Ettahar, Caroline Loïez, Christophe Decoene, René Courcol, and Frédéric Wallet
pages 312-314 [Summary] [PDF]
PCR-Based Detection of Leishmania DNA in Skin Samples of Post Kala-Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis Patients from an Endemic Area of Bangladesh
Syeda Anjuman Nasreen, Md Akram Hossain, Shyamal Kumar Paul, Md Chand Mahmud, Salma Ahmed, Souvik Ghosh, and Nobumichi Kobayashi
pages 315-317 [Summary] [PDF]
Nosocomial Infections in the General Pediatric Wards of a Hospital in Turkey
İsmail Balaban, Gönül Tanır, Özge Metin Timur, Fatma Nur Öz, Türkan Aydın Teke, Gülsüm İclal Bayhan, Nejla Sözak, and Neşe Göl
pages 318-321 [Summary] [PDF]
Relationship between stx Genotype and Stx2 Expression Level in Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O157 Strains
Kimiko Kawano, Hidetoshi Ono, Osamu Iwashita, Mai Kurogi, Takeshi Haga, Ken Maeda, and Yoshitaka Goto
pages 322-325 [Summary] [PDF]
A Superior Test for Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-Associated Diarrhea in Resource-Limited Settings
Darunee Chotiprasitsakul, Tavan Janvilisri, Sasisopin Kiertiburanakul, Siriorn Watcharananun, Surang Chankhamhaengdecha, Piyapong Hadpanus, and Kumthorn Malathum
pages 326-329 [Summary] [PDF]
Seasonal Patterns of Legionellosis in Saitama, 2005–2009
Yukie Ozeki, Fumiya Yamada, Akinobu Saito, Tsuyoshi Kishimoto, Sakiko Tanno, and Yosikazu Nakamura
pages 330-333 [Summary] [PDF]
Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus Proviral DNA Not Detected in Blood Samples Donated in Japan
Chieko Matsumoto, Masashi Igarashi, Rika A. Furuta, Shigeharu Uchida, Masahiro Satake, and Kenji Tadokoro
pages 334-336 [Summary] [PDF]
Molecular Epidemiology of Human Metapneumovirus from 2009 to 2011 in Okinawa, Japan
Minoru Nidaira, Katsuya Taira, Hirotsune Hamabata, Tatsuyoshi Kawaki, Kazuo Gushi, Youko Mahoe, Noriyuki Maeshiro, Yasuhito Azama, Shou Okano, Hisako Kyan, Jun Kudaka, Hiroyuki Tsukagoshi, Masahiro Noda, and Hirokazu Kimura
pages 337-340 [Summary] [PDF]
Molecular Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mie Prefecture, Japan, Using Variable Numbers of Tandem Repeats Analysis
Yuhki Nagai, Yoshito Iwade, Eri Hayakawa, Manabu Nakano, Takashi Sakai, Masamichi Tanuma, Masahiko Katayama, Tetsuya Nosaka, and Tetsuo Yamaguchi
pages 341-344 [Summary] [PDF]
Double Oral Administration of Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Prior to Virus Exposure Protects against Highly Pathogenic Simian/Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Macaques
Tadashi Nakasone, Tsutomu Murakami, and Naoki Yamamoto
pages 345-349 [Summary] [PDF]
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REPORT
Gender Differences in Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Infection in a Population with Schistosomiasis in Rural China
Bishi Fu, Rongge Yang, Fan Xia, Baolin Li, Xinxing Ouyang, Shou-Jiang Gao, and Linding Wang
pages 350-353 [Summary] [PDF]
LABORATORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS
Geo-Demographic Factors Affecting Incidence of Measles
Hiroshi Yoshikura
pages 354-358 [Title page] [PDF]
Occurrence of Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae in Accessible Water Sources of Cholera Endemic Foci in India
Prasenjit Batabyal, Subham Mookerjee, and Anup Palit
pages 358-360 [Title page] [PDF]
Log-Log Plot Analysis of Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Severity in Beijing，2009–2010
Lei Jia, Quanyi Wang, Changying Lin, and Xinyu Li
pages 360-362 [Title page] [PDF]
Molecular Analysis of Genome of the Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) 2009 Virus Associated with Fatal Infections in Gunma, Tochigi, Yamagata, and Yamaguchi Prefectures in Japan during the First Pandemic Wave
Masatsugu Obuchi, Shoichi Toda, Hiroyuki Tsukagoshi, Teruko Oogane, Chieko Abiko, Keiji Funatogawa, Katsumi Mizuta, Komei Shirabe, Kunihisa Kozawa, Masahiro Noda, Hirokazu Kimura, and Masato Tashiro
pages 363-367 [Title page] [PDF]
An Outbreak of Exanthematous Disease due to Coxsackievirus A9 in a Nursery in Yamagata, Japan, from February to March 2012
Yoko Aoki, Akiko Abe, Tatsuya Ikeda, Chieko Abiko, Katsumi Mizuta, Ichiro Yamaguchi, and Tadayuki Ahiko
pages 367-369 [Title page] [PDF]