CANICOLA FEVER IN JAPAN II. FIVE SPORADIC CASES

Canicola fever in man and animals.

Imported dengue fever/dengue hemorrhagic fever cases in Japan

Several dengue outbreaks occurred in Japan from 1942 to 1945. Dengue fever emerged in Nagasaki in August 1942 and soon spread to other cities such as Sasebo, Hiroshima, Kobe and Osaka, recurring every summer until 1945 and constituting the greatest outbreak in the temperate zone. Domestic outbreaks have not been reported in Japan since then. However, the number of imported dengue cases has incr...

Molecular characterization of sapoviruses detected in sporadic gastroenteritis cases in 2007 in Ehime Prefecture, Japan.

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Gakuen 4-71, Musashi-murayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan. E-mail: oka-t @nih.go.jp **Present address: Ehime Central Prefectural Hospital, Ehime, Japan ***Retired from Ehime Prefecture Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science ****Present address: Research Collaboration Center on ...

Polyphyletic strains of hepatitis E virus are responsible for sporadic cases of acute hepatitis in Japan.

Among 87 patients who were previously treated for acute hepatitis of unknown etiology between 1992 and 2001 at five hospitals in Japan, 11 (13%) patients were positive for immunoglobulin M-class antibodies to hepatitis E virus (HEV) by enzyme immunoassay and had detectable HEV RNA by reverse transcription-PCR with two independent sets of primers derived from well-conserved genomic areas in open...

Demographic Features of Imported Dengue Fever Cases Serodiagnosed in Japan during 2000

Serum specimens were collected from dengue-suspected cases for laboratory diagnosis in Japan. The demographic features of the dengue cases confirmed by serodiagnosis at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan, during 2000, were reported. Dengue virus infections were diagnosed by IgMcapture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), IgG-ELISA, Rapid immunochromatographic test, haemm...