The present status of measles in Japan as of 1998

Other contents (text only in Japanese)

• Measles vaccine coverage in Japan

  
  

• Measles vaccine efficacy among children exposed to their siblings with measles

  
  

• Nomenclature for describing wild-type measles viruses and@genotyping

  
  

• A summary of a preliminary report for vaccine strategy in Japan presented by the Committee for Immunization Program, the Ministry of Health and Welfare

  
  

• An outbreak of SRSV gastroenteritis after consumption of catered meal, November 1998 - Kumamoto City

  
  

• Circulation of influenza B virus, May-December 1998- Shizuoka

  
  

• Isolation of echovirus 18, 1998 - Fukushima

  
  

• A notice from the Ministry of Health and Welfare on surveillance for influenza cases complicated with encephalitis/encephalopathy during January-March 1999

  
  

• Detection of VTEC from healthy individuals by a screening test with hemolysis on blood agar during July 1996-December 1998 - Ishikawa

  
  

• Changes on group A Streptococcus T serotypes isolated from nasopharyngeal swabs of children during June 1996-December 1998 - Akita

  
  

• Surveillance for cases of scrub typhus and spotted fever in Japan, 1997

  
  

• AIDS and HIV infections in Japan, November-December 1998

  
  

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