• A Japanese encephalitis case occurring after 17 years' absence in Ishikawa Prefecture, October 2002
  
• Three Japanese encephalitis cases occurring after 12 years' absence in Hiroshima Prefecture, August 2002
  
• Genetic analysis of Japanese encephalitis virus isolates from pigs in 2002
  
• Comparison of genotypes of Japanese encephalitis virus isolates in Japan
  
• Yearly trend of the occurrence of Culex tritaeniorhynchus, 1968-2002-Toyama
  
• Reports of suspect cases and probable cases of SARS in Japan as of June 20, 2003
  
• Isolation of adenovirus type 7 from nasopharyngeal sources and eye swabs, February-June 2003-Kitakyushu City
  
• Isolation of enterovirus 71 from hand, foot and mouth disease cases, March- June 2003-Kitakyushu City and Kagawa
  
• Isolation of coxsackievirus A10 from herpangina cases, May-June 2003-Nara
  
• Isolation of echovirus 9 from exanthema cases and a meningitis case, March-May 2003-Miyazaki
  
• Isolation of adenoviruses during the influenza-epidemic season, February-March 2003-Mie
  
• Isolation of adenovirus type 7 from stools of a 1-year-old boy of acute encephalopathy, September 2002-Kitakyushu
  
• Detection of human metapneumovirus by RT-PCR from children of acute respiratory diseases, March-May 2003-Hiroshima
  
• Genotyping of hepatitis A virus: detection of a IIIA strain and six IA strains, July 2002-April 2003-Sendai City
  
• Two outbreaks of food poisoning due to Norwalk-like virus January-February 2003-Tochigi and Shimane
  
• An outbreak of Clostridium perfringens food poisoning at a hotel, March 2003-Yamagata
  

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