Attempt to curtail the observation period of mice in the tetanus vaccine potency tests.

abstract：:Rapid and accurate diagnosis of infectious diseases, including mycobacterial disease such as tuberculosis (TB) and diseases due to nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), is a very important element of global health. The gold standard in diagnosis of mycobacterial diseases remains clinical examination, combined with direct...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Kobayashi K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the results of susceptibility tests conducted on the sandfly Phlebotomus argentipes, the vector of visceral leishmaniasis in India. Adult P. argentipes insects were collected from 42 villages in 6 districts of the state of Bihar, India, as follows: Patna, Vaishali, Muzaffarpur, Samastipur, Sheohar, and Sita...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Singh R,Kumar P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of norovirus GII.4/Sydney_2012 affected a China elder care facility in December 2012. A total of 39 elderly people and staff met the outbreak case definition. The attack rates in the elderly and the staff were 15.9% (31/195) and 23.2% (19/82), respectively, including 13 asymptomatic cases in the staff. The...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Zheng QM,Zeng HT,Dai CW,Zhang SX,Zhang Z,Mei SJ,He YQ,Ma HW

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) is caused by a group of enteroviruses, most commonly coxsackievirus A 16 (CA16) and enterovirus 71 (EV71). In general, the disease is mild and self-limited except in the case of EV71 infections, which may incur serious complications. This research focused on virus characterization of...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Chatproedprai S,Theanboonlers A,Korkong S,Thongmee C,Wananukul S,Poovorawan Y

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the biological effect of hepatitis B virus (HBV) rtA181T/sW172* point mutation on HBsAg secretion and the potential mechanisms involved in hepatocarcinogenesis. Full-length HBV wild type (wt) and HBV rtA181T/sW172* expression plasmids were transfected into HepG2 cell lines or were injected into C57BL/6...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Zheng J,Jiang S,Lu F

更新日期：2016-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten of 140 patients (7.1%) showed negative results on a QFT-2G test. The 10 patients consisted of seven males and three females (mean age: 66.0 years old). Three of the 10 patients had no clinical symptoms and no underlying diseases. They showed negative results on the QFT-2G test repeatedly within 1 month and a negat...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Kobashi Y,Shimizu H,Ohue Y,Mouri K,Obase Y,Miyashita N,Oka M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 12 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 strains were isolated during a recent outbreak in a nursery school in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. These isolates were considered to be derived from a common strain when analyzed using an IS-printing method and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. PCR analysis r...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Asano Y,Karasudani T,Tanaka H,Matsumoto J,Okada M,Nakamura K,Kondo H,Shinomiya H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we prospectively investigated changes in Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes among Japanese children after heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) inoculation. We acquired nasopharyngeal swabs from the children at each routine PCV7 inoculation and again at least 2 months after the last PCV7 ino...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Ueno M,Ishii Y,Tateda K,Anahara Y,Ebata A,Iida M,Mizuno F,Inamura S,Takahata K,Suzuki Y,Chang B,Wada A,Sugita M,Tanaka T,Nishiwaki Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The findings of this study revealed a 22% prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae among healthy children in Japan; the prevalence tended to increase with age. We identified attendance at day-care facilities and the presence of older siblings as the major risk factors associated with pneumococcal carriage. A significant...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Ueno M,Ishii Y,Tateda K,Anahara Y,Ebata A,Iida M,Inamura S,Takahata K,Suzuki Y,Chang B,Wada A,Sugita M,Tanaka T,Nishiwaki Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgender people are at a high risk for sexually transmitted viruses such as hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Moreover, Indonesia has a moderate-to-high rate of HBV infection and rapid epidemic growth of HIV infection; hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can co-occur with HBV and HIV inf...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Hadikusumo AA,Utsumi T,Amin M,Khairunisa SQ,Istimagfirah A,Wahyuni RM,Lusida MI,Soetjipto,Rianto E,Juniastuti,Hayashi Y

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to characterize the off-seasonal influenza virus A subtype H3N2, which caused an outbreak in an elderly hospital in Niigata, Japan. Virus isolates were subtyped by the hemagglutination-inhibition test and screened for antiviral drug sensitivity by real-time PCR using cycling probe techn...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Dapat C,Suzuki Y,Kon M,Tamura T,Saito R,Dapat IC,Yamazaki O,Odagiri T,Fujisaki S,Suzuki H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationship of infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) to p53 mutation in hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC) from six countries, including Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Spain, and the Unites States. For this purpose, we used formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded liver tissues o...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Ding X,Park YN,Taltavull TC,Thung SN,Jin X,Jin Y,Trung NS,Edamoto Y,Sata T,Abe K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence and intensity of Loa loa and Mansonella perstans were studied in three villages of the Ijebu north area in Ogun State, western Nigeria. Blood samples were collected by finger-pricking from 373 (181 males, 192 females) subjects with an age range of 4 to 55 years. The blood samples were examined microscop...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Agbolade M,Akinboye DO

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli (DEC), an important agent of infectious diarrhoea, is constantly evolving, making it necessary for its periodic monitoring. Unfortunately, DEC genotypes in Ghana remain uncharacterised. We focused on characterising the molecular serotypes, virulence factors, multilocus sequence types, a...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Prah I,Ayibieke A,Huong NTT,Iguchi A,Mahazu S,Sato W,Hayashi T,Yamaoka S,Suzuki T,Iwanaga S,Ablordey A,Saito R

更新日期：2020-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The usefulness of an automated ribotyping system (RiboPrinter) was evaluated for characterizing and identifying clinical isolates of 37 verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) strains and 16 non-VTEC strains. All strains were successfully ribotyped with satisfactory reproducibility and stability and characteri...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Ito Y,Iinuma Y,Baba H,Sugino Y,Hasegawa Y,Shimokata K,Ichiyama S,Hasegawa T,Ohta M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence and morbidities of Chlamydia trachomatis infections in newborn infants. Tissue culture and direct immunofluorescence (DIF) tests were used to detect the presence of nasopharyngeal C. trachomatis infection in 35 preterm and 21 healthy term neonates. All infants wer...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Bekler C,Kultursay N,Ozacar T,Sayiner A,Yalaz M,Akisu M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Japan, HIV infection is classified as "HIV" or "AIDS" depending upon whether the infection was detected before or after the development of AIDS. In male homosexuals, in the plot of the number of "AIDS" notified annually versus the that of "HIV" notified annually, the plot fell on a straight line with a slope close ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Yoshikura H

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to compare serological tests (Rose Bengal [RB]; standard agglutination test [SAT]; enzyme immunoassay [EIA] for detection of IgM, IgA, and IgG; and 2-mercaptoethanol [2-ME] test) that are routinely used in patients prediagnosed with different clinical types of brucellosis (acute, subac...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Pabuccuoglu O,Ecemis T,El S,Coskun A,Akcali S,Sanlidag T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we compared the predictive performances of quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA), the acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE II) scores, and the severity grading score (SGS) for evaluation of the disease prognosis of patients with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) at the...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Demirtas E,Bakir M,Buyuktuna SA,Oksuz C,Oz M,Cebecioglu K,Unlusavuran M

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that certain Fc gamma receptor alleles are genetic risk factors for infectious diseases. In this study, we evaluated Fc gamma RIIa polymorphism in patients with brucellosis. In a case-control study, the frequency of two alleles and three genotypes for Fc gamma RIIa were measured by PCR in 150 ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Hashemi SH,Hajilooi M,Mamani M,Jamal-Omidi S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A seventh round behavioral and serological surveillance found that the HIV epidemic had remarkably increased to 7% among intravenous drug users (IDU) in Central Bangladesh, indicating the urgent need to increase prevention. The main purposes of this study were to find out, by collecting data and the necessary informat...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Mondal NI,Takaku H,Ohkusa Y,Sugawara T,Okabe N

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated with a wide spectrum of clinical entities ranging from asymptomatic carriage to severe forms of chronic hepatitis. In Egypt, HCV infection has been shown to be highly prevalent. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and significance of anti-HCV IgM in ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： el-Gohary A,Hosny AM,Fawaz N,Heiba A,Abdalla E,Kawano F,Kiyokawa T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kudoa septempunctata, a myxosporean parasite, was recently identified as the causative agent of food poisoning resulting from the consumption of raw olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). A single blind inter-laboratory study, involving 5 laboratories, was conducted to validate a quantitative real-time PCR assay for...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Iijima Y,Nakanishi N,Furusawa H,Ohnishi T,Sugita-Konishi Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the prevalence of multidrug resistance, production of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs), and presence of class 1 and 2 integrons in 150 clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae from northwest Iran by performing phenotypic confirmatory tests and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis. Of the...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Ahangarzadeh Rezaee M,Langarizadeh N,Aghazadeh M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we conducted a species-level identification of group G streptococcal (GGS) isolates from companion animals in Japan and analyzed antimicrobial resistance (AMR) patterns. Strains were isolated from sterile and non-sterile specimens collected from 72 animals with clinical signs or symptoms in April-May, 2...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Tsuyuki Y,Kurita G,Murata Y,Goto M,Takahashi T

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A follow-up serological study was conducted involving 47 subjects who received 4 doses of diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, combined with the acellular pertussis vaccine (DTaP) together with Salk-type inactivated polio vaccine (DTaP-wIPV), until 6 years of age. All antibody levels declined more rapidly than expected wit...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Nakayama T,Suga S,Okada K,Okabe N

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus lugdunensis (SL) is a bacterium with a highly pathogenicity than most other coagulase-negative Staphylococcus spp. (CoNS). In Japan, data on this pathogen are sparse, and the current prevalence of SL bacteremia is unknown. Therefore, we investigated the prevalence of SL in blood culture specimens in a p...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Ainoda Y,Takeshita N,Hase R,Mikawa T,Hosokawa N,Kawamura I,Kurai H,Abe M,Kimura M,Araoka H,Fujita T,Totsuka K,Mezaki K,Sekiya N,Ohmagari N

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Our report highlights a case of intracranial tuberculoma in an elderly woman with chronic discharging sinus. A 77-year-old woman had a mass lesion extending to the scalp through a chronic discharging sinus for 2 years with an intermittent, non-radiating, dull, low-grade headache. Based on our survey of central nervous...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Li L,Cheng C,Shetty R,Li S,Wu T,Zhao N

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue virus infections are mostly asymptomatic but can produce a mild, self-limiting acute febrile illness, dengue fever, or a life threatening severe illness, dengue hemorrhagic fever. Dengue hemorrhagic fever is associated with increased vascular permeability partly as a result of elevated levels of matrix metallop...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Leaungwutiwong P,Kelley JF,Sachair A,Jittmittraphap A,Luplertlop N

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human bocavirus (HBoV) is a novel virus which can cause respiratory tract disease in infants and children. Recently, the prevalence of this virus was studied worldwide not only in the respiratory tract, but also in the gastrointestinal tract. The results of this study focusing on the HBoV detection in stool samples sh...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Chieochansin T,Thongmee C,Vimolket L,Theamboonlers A,Poovorawan Y

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00