• Development of live attenuated varicella vaccine in Japan and its perspective
  
• Clinical features of varicella and the necessity for routine immunization
  
• Survey for vaccine coverage and prevalence of varicella in nursery schools, 2002-2004 - Sakai City
  
• Questionnaire survey for a varicella outbreak to guardians of nursery school children, October-December 2003 - Kanazawa City
  
• Prevention of varicella among new medical staffs by antibody testing and immunization
  
• Efficacy of two doses of varicella vaccine
  
• Current status of varicella vaccination in the world
  
• Medical economic evaluation of varicella vaccine
  
• Influenza antibody prevalence in the autumn of 2004, Japan - National Epidemiological Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
  
• HIV-2 antibody detection in a foreign resident, November 2004 - Osaka
  
• The first isolation of influenza virus type AH1 in this winter from an outbreak at a kindergarten, November 2004 - Okayama
  
• A local outbreak of influenza due to type AH3 virus, October 2004 -Tokyo
  
• The first isolation of influenza virus type B in this winter from an outbreak at a primary school, November 2004 - Hyogo
  
• An outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis due to person-to-person infection among hospitalized children, October 2004 - Osaka City
  
• An outbreak of shigellosis caused by meals prepared at a restaurant, May 2004 - Tochigi
  
• An outbreak of shigellosis among participants of Silk Road tour in China, June 2004 - Hiroshima City
  
• An outbreak of food poisoning due to EPEC O115:H19 possessing eaeA and bfpA genes among high school students staying at a training camp, August 2004 - Miyagi
  
• An outbreak of EHEC O26:H11 infection at a nursery school and isolation of EHEC O103:H2 from a case, July-August 2004 - Sendai City

Articles are published in English with the Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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