• Current trend of hepatitis B virus genotypes in Japan
  
• Serodiagnostic methods of hepatitis B virus infection and HBs antigen detection kits commercially available in Japan
  
• Trends of hepatitis B virus positive rates in blood donors and HBV genotype frequency among cases in acute phase of HBV infection
  
• Isolation and genotyping of measles virus from outbreak and sporadic cases during a local measles epidemic, April-July 2006 -Chiba City
  
• A pediatric case of measles encephalitis contracted 10 years after a measles vaccination, June 2006 -Chiba City
  
• Surveillance of all measles cases by the medical association and response to a local epidemic of measles, April-July 2006 -Chiba City
  
• An outbreak of measles among high school students, April-May 2006 -Chiba
  
• An epidemic of measles due to measles virus genotype D5, May-July 2006 -Chiba
  
• Isolation of enterovirus 71 from hand, foot and mouth disease cases and meningitis ones, June-July 2006 -Nagano
  
• Isolation of enterovirus 71 from hand, foot and mouth disease cases complicated with meningitis and that of other enteroviruses, January-July 2006 -Ehime
  
• Isolation of echovirus 18 from meningitis cases, May-July 2006 -Oita
  
• Isolation of echovirus 18 from exanthema cases and meningitis ones, April-July 2006 -Miyazaki
  
• Serotyping and phylogenetic analysis of echovirus 18 isolated in 2006 -Hiroshima and Fukuoka
  
• An outbreak of echovirus 18 infection in neonatal intensive care unit, May 2006 -Aichi
  
• Isolation of influenza virus A/H1N1 from a pneumonia case returning from China, July 2006 -Saitama
  
• An outbreak of mixed infection of Vibrio chorelae O1 El Tor Inaba and Ogawa during a group tour to India, June 2006 -Toyama
  
• Two outbreaks of EHEC O26 infection at nursery schools, June and July 2006 -Gunma
  
• An outbreak of EHEC O157 infection occurring at three high schools, June 2006 -Fukuoka
  
• A fatal case of fulminant infection with group G hemolytic Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis , June 2006 -Gunma
  
• An outbreak of pharyngitis due to hemolytic group A Streptococcus T1 at a primary school, May 2006 -Niigata
  
• Two outbreaks of food poisoning due to Salmonella Weltevreden and S . Saintpaul, June 2006 -Iwate
  
• AIDS and HIV infections in Japan, April-June 2006

• S.Typhi & S.Paratyphi A phage types from human sources, Japan (Jun.16, 2006 - Aug.15, 2006)

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

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