A case of unforeseen intractable severe bacteremia due to Acinetobacter baumannii--an efficacy of sulbactam--.

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of the surveillance data on laboratory confirmed cases of influenza in 4 post pandemic seasons in Serbia was performed to evaluate predictors of hospitalization and admission to intensive care units (ICU). The specimens, including nasal and throat swabs were tested for influenza. Univariate an...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Dimitrijević D,Ilić D,Rakić Adrović S,Šuljagić V,Pelemiš M,Stevanović G,Milinković M,Šipetić Grujićić S

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

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 have developed a surveillance system that can detect a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in a hospital as quickly as possible using the "SARS alert" strategy proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Our research examined hospital staff and in-patients during the winter of 2003/2004. We defin...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Kawana A,Teruya K,Hama T,Kuroda E,Sekiguchi J,Kirikae T,Naka G,Kimura S,Kuratsuji T,Ohara H,Kudo K

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microbial strain harboring the eae gene, which is known as the virulence gene of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and most enterohemorrhagic E. coli, was isolated from a patient in a gastroenteritis outbreak that occurred in 22 patients in Akita Prefecture, Japan, in November 2011. The biochemical charact...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Konno T,Yatsuyanagi J,Takahashi S,Kumagai Y,Wada E,Chiba M,Saito S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measles is a highly contagious infection caused by the measles virus (MV). This study performed long-term surveillance in order to survey the prevalence of MV. A total of 417 patients diagnosed with or suspected of having measles were tested for MV between January 2007 and December 2016 in Osaka City, Japan. Reverse t...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Kaida A,Iritani N,Kanbayashi D,Yamamoto SP,Hirai Y,Hakui N,Fujimori R,Mori H,Hirokawa H,Ogasawara J,Kubo H

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice recovered from influenza A virus infection have been shown to be cross-protected against challenge infection with either drift viruses within a subtype (subtype-specific immunity) or different subtype viruses (heterosubtypic immunity). The mechanisms of broad-spectrum of cross-protection could be explained as fol...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Tamura S,Tanimoto T,Kurata T

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) are considered the gold standard for the detection of various immunological reactions and can be used for the detection of infectious diseases during outbreaks or in the care of individual patients. To be useful in the timely implementation of prevention and control measures...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Singh H,Morioka K,Shimojima M,Van An L,Nakajima H,Hemmi A,Uchiyama K,Loong SK,AbuBakar S,Yang M,Sugamata M

更新日期：2016-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We experienced a case of congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) due to infection after maternal antibody conversion with vaccine. The mother was immunized with rubella vaccine at 14 years of age, and was confirmed as having rubella-specific hemagglutination inhibition (HI) antibody at the 1:16 level both at ages 26 and 30 ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Ushida M,Katow S,Furukawa S

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is shown to be a major causative agent in outbreaks of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) reported in Guangdong (GD) Province of China in 2008. A total of 48,876 HFMD cases (131 severe and 21 fatal) were reported to the GD HFMD web-based surveillance system, which covers 871 clinics. The main c...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Sun LM,Zheng HY,Zheng HZ,Guo X,He JF,Guan DW,Kang M,Liu Z,Ke CW,Li JS,Liu L,Guo RN,Yoshida H,Lin JY

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this prospective pilot study we evaluated the efficacy of blood cultures (BC) in detecting bacteremia and fungemia prior to the occurrence of infectious signs. Between February 2003 and July 2003, BC were performed twice weekly in neutropenic hematological patients using blood drawn from central venous catheters. M...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Penack O,Keilholz U,Thiel E,Blau IW

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance is critical for both early detection and a timely public health response to infectious diseases. Electronic information systems have been widely adopted by pharmacies in Japan. The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of using prescription data for influenza surveillance in Japan to facilitate...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Yoshida M,Matsui T,Ohkusa Y,Kobayashi J,Ohyama T,Sugawara T,Yasui Y,Tachibana T,Okabe N

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to evaluate the treatment outcome of pulmonary tuberculosis patients and factors affecting treatment outcomes. We analyzed the records of 586 pulmonary tuberculosis patients who were older than 15 years followed between January 1999 and December 2004. Of these patients, 76.1% were smear-positive for tuberculo...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Talay F,Kumbetli S,Altin S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the beginning of Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988, poliomyelitis cases caused by wild poliovirus (PV) have been drastically reduced, with only 74 cases reported in 2 endemic countries in 2015. The current limited PV transmission suggests that we are in the endgame of the polio eradication program. How...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Arita M

更新日期：2017-01-24 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：:We report a new case of Cardiobacterium hominis endocarditis identified during an acute coronary syndrome. The positivity of the blood cultures was confirmed rapidly (50 h) as a result of improvements to the automated detection system, whereby it is no longer necessary to incubate the vials for long periods of time wh...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Wallet F,Loïez C,Decoene C,Courcol R

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In total, 11 asymptomatic carriers who underwent nasal or oropharyngeal swab tests for SARS-CoV-2 after being in close contact with patients who developed symptomatic 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were enrolled in this study. The chest multidetector computed tomography (CT) images of the enrolled patients were q...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Yan S,Chen H,Xie RM,Guan CS,Xue M,Lv ZB,Wei LG,Bai Y,Chen BD

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The pyrogen test or the endotoxin test has been playing a crucial role in detecting endotoxin in parenteral drugs. The current test methods, however, have disadvantages such as requiring a relatively high number of animals or an inadequacy in direct evaluation of in vivo activity. We made an attempt to establish a new...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Ochiai M,Kataoka M,Toyoizumi H,Yamamoto A,Horiuchi Y

更新日期：2001-08-01 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：:We characterized the genetic diversity of the complete VP1 region of coxsackievirus A16 (CA16) and enterovirus 71 (EV71) isolated from patients with hand, foot, and mouth disease in Toyama from 1981 to 2007 to evaluate the relationship between epidemics and genetic changes. The predominant genogroups of CA16 changed f...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Iwai M,Masaki A,Hasegawa S,Obara M,Horimoto E,Nakamura K,Tanaka Y,Endo K,Tanaka K,Ueda J,Shiraki K,Kurata T,Takizawa T

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we analyzed the epidemiology of measles cases from January 2004 to December 2011 and measles immunity levels among a healthy population from January to June 2012, in Baoji, Shaanxi Province. This study aimed to identify susceptible populations to measles and to establish methods of measles prevention an...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Zhang X,Kou G,Du H,Ju Z,Zhong L,Cui X,Ling H

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:From November 2004 to April 2005, 5 cases of norovirus (NoV) occurred in Sakai City, Japan. These were all diffuse outbreaks due to infections with genogroup II genotype 4 (GII/4) virus strains. Similar outbreaks occurred throughout Japan; hence, GII/4 was assumed to be the prevalent NoV type. However, a NoV outbreak ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Uchino K,Miyoshi T,Matsuo M,Ikeda Y,Yoshida Y,Teranaka Y,Sugimoto M,Sasaki Y,Shibata H,Fujii F,Tanaka T

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-SPOT.TB test does not cross-react with Bacille Calmette-Guérin or most non-tuberculosis mycobacterium species, and is based on IFN-gamma responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific antigens. The objective of this study was to compare tuberculin skin test (TST) with T-SPOT.TB results used in the diagnosis of...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Simsek H,Alpar S,Ucar N,Aksu F,Ceyhan I,Gözalan A,Cesur S,Ertek M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation by country in urinary tract infection (UTI)-causative bacteria is partly due to the differences in the use of antibiotics. We compared their frequencies and antibiotic susceptibilities in the treatment of patients with UTI from 2 cities, Kobe, Japan, and Surabaya, Indonesia. We retrospectively analyzed 1,804...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Kitagawa K,Shigemura K,Yamamichi F,Alimsardjono L,Rahardjo D,Kuntaman K,Shirakawa T,Fujisawa M

更新日期：2018-01-23 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：: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：:Stigma, considered a social disease, is more apparent in developing societies which are driven by various social affairs, and influences adherence to treatment. The aim of the present study was to examine levels of social stigma related to tuberculosis (TB) in sociodemographic context and identify the effects of socio...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Chowdhury MR,Rahman MS,Mondal MN,Sayem A,Billah B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-sternotomy infections are a kind of nosocomial infection involving the mediastinum space and the sternum, with a high morbidity and mortality rate. The present study was carried out to identify the incidence of mediastinitis following cardiac surgery and the most common risk factors. Cardic patients undergoing su...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Ghotaslou R,Yagoubi AR,Khalili AA,Mahmodian R

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chryseobacterium meningosepticum is an uncommon pathogen causing adult bacterial meningitis. Herein, we report the case history of one 21-year-old woman with this uncommon central nervous system infection. A diagnosis of adult C. meningosepticum meningitis can only be confirmed by a positive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Lu CH,Huang CR,Tsai NW,Chang CS,Chuang YC,Lee PY,Lei CB,Wang HC,Wang KW,Chang WN

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an endemic tick-borne viral disease that affects both animals and humans. This study aims to determine the seroprevalence of CCHF in Turkey's Van province using analysis of blood samples obtained from people living in the region. Blood specimens were taken from healthy subject...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Bayram Y,Parlak M,Özkaçmaz A,Çıkman A,Güdücüoǧlu H,Kılıç S,Berktaş M,Andac CA

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00