Outbreaks of viral gastroenteritis, Japan, January-October 1997

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• An outbreak of SRSV acute gastroenteritis in a home for the aged and the handicapped - Osaka City

• SRSV detection from sporadic infantile cases - Ehime

• Detection of recently prevailing SRSV by RT-PCR with multiple primers - Akita

• A training course on RT-PCR and microhybridization for SRSV detection

• A partial revision of the form for reporting food-poisoning incidents under the Food Sanitation Law

• Isolation of coxsackievirus A12 after an interval of 5 years - Shimane

• Genotyping adenovirus type 7h isolated in 1996 in Japan

• Two infantile cases of VTEC O157:H7 infections acquired probably in a cowhouse - Toyama

• The first report of influenza virus isolation in the 1997/98 season - Nara

• Epidemics of aseptic meningitis due to echovirus 30, July-October 1997 - Osaka and Kawasaki Cities

• Isolation of echoviruses 3 and 25, September-October 1997 - Kawasaki City

• Surveillance for cases of scrub typhus and of spotted fever in Japan, 1996

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