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IASR Vol.21 No.3 March 2000

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Botulism, Japan

• Overview of botulism in agents, forms, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment
  
• An outbreak of foodborne type B botulism from eating Italy-imported bottled olives, August 1998 - Tokyo
  
• Fourteen cases of meningococcal infection showing meningitis, sepsis or other clinical symptoms, April 1998-October 1999 - Tokyo
  
• An outbreak of EHEC O153 food poisoning due to catered meal, November 1999 - Nagasaki City
  
• An outbreak of influenza in a home for the aged, December 1999 - Shiga
  
• A trend of influenza in 1999/2000 season - Gunma
  
• Susceptibility to insecticides of body lice, Pediculus humanus, collected in Tokyo
  
• Surveillance for cases of scrub typhus and spotted fever in Japan, 1998

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