• Outbreak of legionellosis: Sequence based-typing and PFGE analysis of Legionella pneumophila SG1 strains isolated from two cases and public bath water, January 2008—Kobe City
  
• Outbreak of legionellosis at a welfare facility for the elderly, July 2008—Okayama
  
• Examination of car air conditioner evaporators as an infection route of legionellosis
  
• Knowledge from sequence based-typing of the clinical isolates of Legionella , 2000-2008—Legionella Reference Center in Japan
  
• Improvement of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for the analysis of Legionella isolates—Department of Bacteriology, NIID
  
• Detection of oseltamivir-resistant influenza A/H1N1 virus strains with an H275Y mutation in Japan during 2007/08 season
  
• Isolation of influenza AH3 virus from a case returning from the Philippines, September 2008—Okinawa
  
• Isolation of influenza AH3 viruses from outbreak cases at a junior high school, September 2008—Tochigi
  
• Isolation of influenza B viruses (Victoria lineage) from outbreak cases at a primary school, October 2008—Sakai City
  
• Isolation of influenza AH1 viruses from outbreak cases at a kindergarten, October 2008—Yamaguchi
  
• Outbreak of gastroenteritis due to norovirus GII/6, September 2008—Shiga
  
• Diffuse outbreak of food poisoning due to Shigella sonnei suspected to be caused by imported frozen sea foods, July-August 2008—Fukuoka City
  
• Isolation of Shigella sonnei showing no β-glucronidase activity by enrichment culture from stools, August 2008—Fukuoka
  
• Outbreak of food poisoning due to EHEC O157:H7 (PFGE type No. b142) at four rotisserie restaurants, July 2008—Fukui
  
• Laboratory confirmation of a chikungunya fever case returning from India, September 2008—Osaka
  
• Outbreak of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis due to adenovirus type 8 at a nursery school, June-August 2008—Kobe City
  
• AIDS and HIV infections in Japan, July-September 2008

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