Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Vol. 55 No. 2, P. 37-67, 2002

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Invited Review
       This article is an Invited Review based on a lecture
        presented at the 11th Symposium of the National Institute of
        Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, 21 May 2001.

Discovery of Immunostimulatory CpG-DNA and Its Application to 
Tuberculosis Vaccine Development
     Saburo Yamamoto, Toshiko Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Nojima, 
     Kiyoko Umemori, Susan Phalen, David N. McMurray, 
     Etsuto Kuramoto, Sumiko Iho, Rumiko Takauji, Yukio Sato,
     Takeshi Yamada, Naoya Ohara, Sohkichi Matsumoto, 
     Yoshitaka Goto, Kazuhiro Matsuo and Tohru Tokunaga
     pages 37-44 [SUMMARY] [PDF]

Short Communications
Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern of Salmonella worthington
Isolated from Neonates - a Retrospective Study
     Dnyaneshwari P. Ghadage and Abhijit M. Bal
     pages 45-46 [SUMMARY] [PDF]

Subconjunctival Infection with Dirofilaria repens
     Vikas Gautam, I.M. Rustagi, Satyavir Singh and D.R. Arora
     pages 47-48 [SUMMARY] [PDF]

Chlamydophila pneumoniae Specific Antibodies in Thai Patients
with Myocardial Infarction
     Piyada Wangroongsarb, Puchaniyada Phuekfen, 
     Pimjai Naigowit and Toshikatsu Hagiwara
     pages 49-51 [SUMMARY] [PDF]

Diphtheria Immunity of Different Age Groups in Turkey
     Ufuk Beyazova, Esref Guler,, Aysegul Yucel and 
     Figen Sahin
     pages 52-54 [SUMMARY] [PDF]

Laboratory and Epidemiology Communications
Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus within and outside Japan:
a Cause for Concern?
     Michael Broker
     pages 55-56 [Text][PDF]

Surveillance of Poliovirus-Isolates in Japan, 2001
     Tetsuo Yoneyama, Akira Sasagawa, Masayuki Kikuchi,
     Nobuji Noda, Naomi Shinkawa, Kimi Yoshida and
     Tatsuo Miyamura
     pages 57-58 [Text][PDF]

Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Salmonella typhi Isolates
in Kokata, India during 1991-2001: a Retrospective Study
     Shyamapada Mandal, Manisha Deb Mandal and Nishith Kumar Pal
     pages 58-59 [Text] [PDF]

Induction of HIV-1-Specific Neutralizing Antibodies in Mice
Vaccinated with a Recombinant Sendai Virus Vector
     Munehide Kano, Tetsuro Matano, Atsushi Kato, Tatsuo Shioda
     and Yoshiyuki Nagai
     pages 59-60 [Text][PDF]

Reproducibility of Oral Bacterial Isolation in the Elderly
     Hidenobu Senpuku, Akio Tada, Masanari Takada, Tsutomu Sato
     and Nobuhiro Hanada
     pages 61-62 [Text][PDF]

Discordant Movement of CD4-Positive T-Cell Count in HIV-1 
Infected Patients with HAART Failure
     Aiko Okano, Masakazu Matsuda, Tomoko Chiba, Kenji Moriya,
     Kaneo Yamada and Wataru Sugiura
     pages 62-65 [Text][PDF]
      
Is There a Relation between the Antibiotic Sensitivity of
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and the Consumption
of Antibiotics in a Hospital?: a Study from April 1993-March 1999 
     Junko Kizu, Motoki Arakawa and Kenji Yamamoto
     pages 65-67 [Text][PDF]



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