• Problems on superinfection with HIV and syphilis
  
• Necessity for syphilis test twice during pregnancy to prevent congenital syphilis
  
• Fear for increasing congenital syphilis and public health issues
  
• Decreased reports of asymptomatic syphilis among higher age groups in Japan, 2004-2005
  
• Topic of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection–drug resistance
  
• Mutation on cryptic plasmid DNA of Chlamydia trachomatis and drug resistance
  
• Current status of human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine
  
• Pathogen surveillance of sexually transmitted diseases, November 2007-July 2008–Tokyo
  
• Isolation of enteroviruses since last autumn, as of July 2008–Shimane
  
• Summer outbreak of influenza AH3 virus infection at a university, June 2008–Okayama
  
• Outbreak of influenza B at a primary school, July 2008–Chiba
  
• Rapid increase in isolation of parechovirus 3, June-July 2008–Hiroshima City
  
• Outbreak of EHEC O26:H11 infection during high-school excursion to Hokkaido, June 2008–Fujisawa City
  
• Outbreak of lysine decarboxylase-negative EHEC O111 infection at a nursery school, July 2006–Aichi
  
• Identification of Streptococcus suis isolated from spinal fluid and blood of a serious meningitis case, June 2008–Yokohama City
  
• AIDS and HIV infections in Japan, April-June 2008

• Salmonella Typhi & Salmonella Paratyphi A phage types from human sources, Japan (Jun. 21, 2008 - Aug. 20, 2008)

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