Seroprevalence of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in Turkey's Van Province.

abstract：:We studied the antimicrobial susceptibility and prevalence of the blaTEM-1 and blaTEM-135 genes in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates obtained in Thailand. The isolates were tested using the disk diffusion method, and 100% of 370 isolates were found susceptible to cefixime, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, cefepime, ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Tribuddharat C,Pongpech P,Charoenwatanachokchai A,Lokpichart S,Srifuengfung S,Sonprasert S

更新日期：2017-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 62-year-old woman with Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia. She was admitted to our hospital with ventricular tachycardia and was subsequently diagnosed with idiopathic ventricular tachycardia, with no structural heart disease. However, 12 days after admission, she suddenly developed a high-grad...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Takahashi N,Shimada T,Tanabe K,Sato M,Kitamura J,Sato H,Yoshitomi H,Ishibashi Y,Sakane T

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in endemic countries is challenging due to high caseloads and limited resources. A simple and cost-effective diagnostic test for the rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) in clinical specimens is crucially needed. We evaluated the performance of an in-house ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Phetsuksiri B,Rudeeaneksin J,Srisungngam S,Bunchoo S,Klayut W,Nakajima C,Hamada S,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2020-07-22 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：:Autoantibodies to myeloperoxidase (MPO) are associated with small vessel systemic vasculitis. Interactions of these autoantibodies with MPO target antigen, Fcgamma receptors and Beta2 integrins at the neutrophil surface, can set in train a sequence of intracellular signal transduction events that culminate with functi...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Williams J,Hewins P,Savage C

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：: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：:Salmonellosis constitutes an important public health problem throughout the world. In severe infections like meningitis and septicemia, antibiotic treatment is essential. Extended-spectrum cephalosporins are preferentially used to treat salmonellosis in children. Treatment failures due to in-vivo acquisition of an ext...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Menezes GA,Harish BN,Parija SC

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), known as a nosocomial pathogen, has been isolated from community-acquired infections since the 1980s. It has been reported that there are carriers of MRSA in the community although the rate of carriers is low and the most important risk factor of community-acquired c...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Erdenizmenli M,Yapar N,Senger SS,Ozdemir S,Yuce A

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) can involve mixed-species bacterial infection. However, few studies have investigated antimicrobial efficacy in the treatment of mixed species infections. This study aimed to compare the in vivo antimicrobial activity of garenoxacin (GRNX) and levofloxacin (LVFX) against Streptococcu...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Kato H,Hagihara M,Yokoyama Y,Suematsu H,Asai N,Koizumi Y,Yamagishi Y,Mikamo H

更新日期：2019-11-21 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：:In the present study, we examined the prevalence of Providencia spp. strains among children with diarrhea in Japan. We developed a Providencia genus-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method, and the specificity and sensitivity was evaluated to be 100% with various bacterial strains including 7 genera and 13 spe...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Shima A,Hinenoya A,Asakura M,Nagita A,Yamasaki S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a hospitalized patient with 2019 novel coronavirus disease whose fecal samples tested negative 22 days after respiratory samples tested negative, highlighting that the duration of viral shedding is longer than that previously expected. Current clinical examinations for treatment and discharge standards ar...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Ge R,Chen Z,Liu X,Zhang Q,Zhu G,Xiao Q

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the overall usage of veterinary therapeutic antimicrobials in Japan to the proportion of antimicrobial-resistant. Escherichia coli isolated from the feces of apparently healthy food-producing animals in 2001. The annual sales volume of veterinary antimicrobials, which is published and accumulated informati...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Asai T,Kojima A,Harada K,Ishihara K,Takahashi T,Tamura Y

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated two currently available rapid antigen detection tests (RADTs) for Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), Sofia® RSV FIA and BinaxNOW RSV Card (BinaxNOW). Between November 2017 and February 2018, 395 nasopharyngeal swabs were collected from children diagnosed with acute respiratory infections. The swabs were e...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Sun Y,Deng J,Qian Y,Zhu R,Wang F,Tian R,De R,Zhao L

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a laboratory study to evaluate the efficacy of control agents against small larvae, large larvae, and pupae of Aedes aegypti to determine an appropriate larvicide regime to employ in emergency dengue control programs. The control agents included Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis (Bti), pyriproxyfen ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Wang CY,Teng HJ,Lee SJ,Lin C,Wu JW,Wu HS

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Of 59 clinical isolates of Enterobacter cloacae from a teaching hospital in Sichuan, China, 18 isolates were shown to be resistant to oxyimino cephalosporins and aztreonam. Enterobacterial repetitive consensus PCR revealed that these isolates comprised 7 distinct genotypes. The presence of plasmids in the 18 clinical ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Liu G,Ling BD,Zeng Y,Lin L,Xie YE,Lei J

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The previously identified Shiga toxin (Stx) 2f-producing Escherichia coli O115:HNM strain F08/101-31, isolated from a symptomatic human, was confirmed to be E. albertii in the present study by whole genome DNA-DNA hybridizations, by sequencing (cpn60, dnaJ, and 16S rRNA genes), and by multi-locus sequence typing. The ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Murakami K,Etoh Y,Tanaka E,Ichihara S,Horikawa K,Kawano K,Ooka T,Kawamura Y,Ito K

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:A strong dependency of rubella and measles epidemics on population size was confirmed by 2 types of plots: the cumulative frequency distribution of number of cases per prefecture and the slope of the log-log plots of number of cases per prefecture on the y-axis vs. prefecture population size on the x-axis. These param...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Yoshikura H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection transmission systems circulate infection through complex contact patterns related to both contact patterns and patterns of factors that affect the risk of transmission given contact. The nonlinear dynamics of infection transmission cause these patterns to make big differences in population infection levels. ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Koopman JS

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 65-year-old Japanese male farmer with advanced gastric adenocarcinoma and multiple hepatic metastases was admitted to our hospital. Blood culture results were positive on day 5, and Gram-positive rods were detected. According to the results of Ziehl-Neelsen staining and a cultured colony of this bacterium, we suspec...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Yaita K,Matsunaga M,Tashiro N,Sakai Y,Masunaga K,Miyoshi H,Oshima K,Chikamatsu K,Takaki A,Mitarai S,Watanabe H

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The aimes of the present study were to monitor genetic alterations in the hemagglutin (HA) gene and oseltamivir resistance-related alterations in the neuraminidase (NA) gene of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viral isolates detected during the post-pandemic period in Turkey. A total of 2601 clinical specimens obtained from sus...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Guldemir D,Kalaycioglu AT,Altas AB,Korukluoglu G,Durmaz R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue is the most prevalent arboviral disease affecting humans, with tropical and subtropical regions having the highest risk of dengue virus infections. The clinical symptoms often range from mild fever to fever with hemorrhagic manifestations and shock. Since 2010, India has been witnessing a marked increase in the...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Pooja S,Sabeena S,Revti B,Sanjay R,Anjali A,Rajendra K,Aswathyraj S,Giselle D,Hindol M,Arunkumar G

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), a member of the genus Nairovirus of the family Bunyaviridae, causes a severe disease in humans with high mortality rates. In Turkey, the number of patients with CCHF has increased since 2002. Here, we aimed to treat CCHF patients with CCHFV hyperimmunoglobulin. We prepare...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Kubar A,Haciomeroglu M,Ozkul A,Bagriacik U,Akinci E,Sener K,Bodur H

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Melioidosis is an infection caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei that usually involves the respiratory tract. It may manifest as pneumonia, septicemia, or localized infection. We present here a case of melioidosis initially manifesting as a mass over the supraclavicular area and subsequently progressing to necrotizing ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Ma TL,Huang GC,Tang HJ,Chang CM

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:A molecular epidemiological study of rotavirus (RV) and norovirus (NoV) infections was carried out in Nha Trang city in Vietnam between December 2005 and June 2006. RV and NoV were detected in 87 (47.5%) and 12 (6.6%) of the 183 fecal specimens from children hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis, respectively. The m...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Tamura T,Nishikawa M,Anh DD,Suzuki H

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00