Comparison of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification, Microscopy, Culture, and PCR for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

abstract：:The clinical analysis of cases of bacteremia is valuable. However, limited data on bacteremia are available in Vietnam. We conducted a single-center retrospective surveillance study at the Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam between 2009 and 2012. In total, 45,366 blood cultures were analyzed. The number of blood cultur...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Takeshita N,Anh NQ,Phuong DM,Thanh DV,Thuy PP,Huong MTL,Takahashi M,Ohmagari N

更新日期：2019-03-25 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：:Two multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains harboring blaVIM were isolated from a hospital in Egypt and were indistinguishable by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Sequence analysis revealed a novel VIM β-lactamase, VIM-28. Additional sequencing of integron revealed that the blaVIM-28 gene cassette had an u...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： El-Mahdy TS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease severities following dengue virus (DV) infection are the result of increased vascular permeability leading to hypovolemic shock. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are believed to play a key role in promoting such severities. A previous study reported that supernatants of DV-infected dendritic cells (DCs), which...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Seanpong P,Srisaowakarn C,Thammaporn A,Leardkamolkarn V,Kumkate S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major objective of this study was to deliver vital statistics related to cholera to health authorities so as to aid in their attempt to prioritize communicable diseases in Nepal. A laboratory-based surveillance was conducted from mid-June 2008 to mid-January 2009 at the National Public Health Laboratory, Nepal. Di...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Karki R,Bhatta DR,Malla S,Dumre SP

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：: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：:Climatic conditions may have affected the incidence of influenza during the pandemic of 2009 as well as at other times. This study evaluated the effects of climatic conditions on influenza incidence in Okinawa, a subtropical region in Japan, during the 2009 pandemic using surveillance data from rapid antigen test (...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Iha Y,Higa F,Sunagawa S,Naka M,Cash HL,Miyagi K,Haranaga S,Tateyama M,Uno T,Fujita J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibody 1C10 targets the V3 loop of HIV-1 and neutralizes a broad range of clade B viruses. However, the mode of interaction between 1C10 and the V3 loop remains unclear because crystallization of 1C10 and the V3 peptide was unsuccessful due to the flexible regions present in both 1C10 and the V3 pepti...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Kaku Y,Kuwata T,Gorny MK,Matsushita S

更新日期：2020-05-22 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 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：: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 investigated the linezolid susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from a tertiary care hospital in Izmir. A total of 67 M. tuberculosis strains (33 multidrug-resistant [MDR] and 34 non-MDR) were isolated and identified by the Tuberculosis Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Clinical Mi...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Ermertcan S,Hosgor-Limoncu M,Erac B,Tasli H,Cavusoglu C,Bozkurt H

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A food-borne pathogen, Listeria monocytogenes serotype 4b, has been frequently isolated from patients with listeriosis, and numerous outbreaks of listeriosis are associated with this serotype. In the present study, we performed subtyping of L. monocytogenes serotype 4b strains on the basis of genetic analyses. Thirty-...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Ochiai Y,Mochizuki M,Yamada F,Takano T,Hondo R,Ueda F

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the 2018 rubella outbreak in Japan, this study aimed to assess rubella prevention measures based on the vaccination and immunization status of pregnant women in Japan. Our cohort study involved 3 local core hospitals in Yokohama City, and a total of 666 pregnant women were recruited between June 2018 and Sep...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Iwata A,Kurasawa K,Kubota K,Sugo Y,Odagami M,Aoki S,Okuda M,Yamanaka T,Miyagi E

更新日期：2020-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:"Immunological discordance," i.e., immunological failure despite complete viral suppression in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART), is associated with increased risk of AIDS or death. To evaluate risk factors for immunological discordance in a resource-limited se...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Mingbunjerdsuk P,Asdamongkol N,Sungkanuparph S

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：:Amebiasis is epidemic in two major populations in Japan: male homosexuals and institutionalized people. Currently available diagnostic, chemotherapeutic, and prophylactic measures and their problems are discussed. Recent advances in basic research on amebiasis are also described with new findings of unique metabolisms...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Nozaki T

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the molecular epidemiology of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in Okinawa Prefecture, located in a subtropical region of Japan, we performed genetic analysis of the F gene in HMPV from patients with acute respiratory infection from January 2009 to December 2011. HMPV was detected in 18 of 485 throat swabs (3...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Nidaira M,Taira K,Hamabata H,Kawaki T,Gushi K,Mahoe Y,Maeshiro N,Azama Y,Okano S,Kyan H,Kudaka J,Tsukagoshi H,Noda M,Kimura H

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess the distribution of Chlamydia trachomatis genovars in male sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic patients from 1 province in eastern China (Jiangsu) and 3 provinces in southern China (Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan). Urine specimens (n = 140) were collected from 46 public ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Han Y,Yin YP,Shi MQ,Zhong MY,Chen SC,Xang Z,Jiang N,Chen XS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined 29 isolates of Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Schwarzengrund from broiler chickens (n=19) and retail chicken meats (n=10) in Japan for antimicrobial susceptibility and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) profiling. All isolates exhibited resistance to both bicozamycin and sulfadimethox...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Asai T,Murakami K,Ozawa M,Koike R,Ishikawa H

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:An outbreak of tularemia occurred in three provinces in Turkey in February 2004 and reemerged in the same provinces in February 2005. A total of 61 cases, 54 of which were confirmed with the micro-agglutination test, were diagnosed with oropharyngeal tularemia. No culture for Francisella tularensis was attempted, but ...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Celebi G,Baruönü F,Ayoğlu F,Cinar F,Karadenizli A,Uğur MB,Gedikoğlu S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously developed Russell's viper venom toxoid in Myanmar is in a liquid form that shows reversion in the form of a reduced number of formaldehyde linkages and toxicity during storage at 37 degrees C and at room temperature. In order to have a safe, potent and stable toxoid, a lyophilized form was prepared in the...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Aung W,Hlaing KK,Kyaw KP,Win MM,Kyaw A

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：: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

abstract：:The recent increase in gram-negative bacteria coproducing multiple classes of β-lactamases has made it difficult to accurately identify metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) producers. In the present study, six methods for detecting MBL producers were compared using 56 gram-negative bacterial isolates that produce various β-lacta...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Hattori T,Kawamura K,Arakawa Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:This study obtained information on the serotypes and molecular typing characteristics of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains causing invasive diseases in Turkey. Sixty-eight S. pneumoniae isolates causing invasive pneumococcal diseases were collected from different regions of Turkey from 2009 to 2011. The isolates were c...

journal_title：Japanese journal of infectious diseases

authors： Guldemir D,Acar S,Otgun SN,Unaldi O,Gozalan A,Ertek M,Durmaz R,Invasive Pneumococcal Diseases Study Group.

更新日期：2016-05-20 00:00:00