ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Vol 62 No 4</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#fcffa1"> <P><B><FONT SIZE="+2">Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases</FONT></B></P> <P><B><FONT SIZE="+1">Vol. 62 No. 4, P. 249-329, 2009</FONT></B></P> <P><B><FONT SIZE="+1"><HR ALIGN=LEFT></FONT></B></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#009999">To see a printable version of the article in the Adobe file format, click its [PDF] link.</FONT></P> <P><B><U>ORIGINAL ARTICLES</U></B></P> <P><B>Prevalent Bacterial Infections in Intensive Care Units of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospitals, Shiraz, Iran</B></P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Parvin Hassanzadeh, Mohammad Motamedifar, and Nahal Hadi<BR> pages 249-253 [<A HREF="249.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="249.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B>Genetic Changes of Coxsackievirus A16 and Enterovirus 71 Isolated from Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Patients in Toyama, Japan between 1981 and 2007</B></P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Masae Iwai, Akio Masaki, Sumiyo Hasegawa, Mayumi Obara, Eiji Horimoto, Kazuya Nakamura, Yuichi Tanaka, Kyoko Endo, Keiko Tanaka, Junko Ueda, Kimiyasu Shiraki, Takeshi Kurata, and Takenori Takizawa<BR> pages 254-259 [<A HREF="254.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="254.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B>Assay of <I>Chlamydia pneumoniae</I>-Specific IgM Antibodies by ELISA Method Reduction of Non-Specific Reaction and Resetting of Serological Criteria by Measuring IgM Antibodies </B></P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Toshio Kishimoto, Shuji Ando, Kei Numazaki, Kazunobu Ouchi, Tsutomu Yamazaki, and Chikara Nakahama<BR> pages 260-264 [<A HREF="260.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="260.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B>Bacterial Contamination of Blood and Blood Components in Three Major Blood Transfusion Centers, Accra, Ghana</B></P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Andrew Anthony Adjei, George Khumalo Kuma, Yao Tettey, Patrick Ferdinand Ayeh-Kumi, Japheth Opintan, Francis Apeagyei, Jacob Otinkorang Ankrah, Theophilus Korku Adiku, and Edwin Gbli Narter-Olaga<BR> pages 265-269 [<A 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Eslampour, and Mohammad M. Feizabadi<BR> pages 309-311 [<A HREF="309.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="309.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B>Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance in <I>Salmonella</I> Isolated from Patients with Overseas Travelers' Diarrhea in Japan</B></P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Masumi Taguchi, Ryuji Kawahara, Kazuko Seto, Kiyoshi Inoue, Akihiro Hayashi, Nobuaki Yamagata, Kazumasa Kamakura, and Etsurou Kashiwagi<BR> pages 312-314 [<A HREF="312.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="312.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B>Isolation of Shiga Toxin 2f-Producing <I>Escherichia coli</I> (O115:HNM) from an Adult Symptomatic Patient in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan</B></P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Yoshiki Etoh, Koichi Murakami, Sachiko Ichihara, Nobuyuki Sera, Mitsuhiro Hamasaki, Shigeyuki Takenaka, Kazumi Horikawa, Kimiko Kawano, Tomoko Takeishi, Yuka Kuwana, Asao Inoue, Youko Nagatsu,0Yasuko Hira,0Masanobu Takahashi, and Kenitiro Ito<BR> pages 315-317 [<A HREF="315.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="315.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B><U>Epidemiological Report</U></B></P> <P><B>Prevalence and Properties of Diarrheagenic <I>Escherichia coli</I> among Healthy Individuals in Osaka City, Japan</B></P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Sami Fujihara, Kentaro Arikawa, Tetsu Aota, Hiroshi Tanaka, Hiromi Nakamura, Takayuki Wada, Atsushi Hase, and Yoshikazu Nishikawa<BR> pages 318-323 [<A HREF="318.html">Summary</A>] [<A HREF="318.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B><U>LABORATORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS</U></B></P> <P><B>Detection of <I>Paragonimus</I> Metacercariae in the Japanese Freshwater Crab, <I>Geothelphusa dehaani</I>, Bought at Retail Fish Markets in Japan</B></P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Hiromu Sugiyama, Azusa Umehara, Yasuyuki Morishima, Hiroshi Yamasaki, and Masanori Kawanaka<BR> pages 324-325 [<A HREF="324.html">Title page</A>] [<A HREF="324.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B>Genotypic and Phylogenetic Analysis of the G Gene of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Isolates in Okinawa, Japan, 2008</B></P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Masaji Nakamura, Kiyomasa Itokazu, Katsuya Taira, Tatsuyoshi Kawaki, Jun Kudaka, Minoru Nidaira, Shou Okano, Yukiko Koja, Koji Tamanaha, Hirokazu Kimura, and Masahiro Noda<BR> pages 326-327 [<A HREF="326.html">Title page</A>] [<A HREF="326.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B>A Case of Afebrile Pneumonia Caused by Non-Toxigenic <I>Corynebacterium diphtheriae</I></B></P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Yasuo Honma, Yuko Yoshii, Yumiko Watanabe, Nobuki Aoki, Takako Komiya, Masaaki Iwaki, Hiroyuki Arai, Yoshichika Arakawa, Motohide Takahashi, and Hirokazu Kimura<BR> pages 327-329 [<A HREF="327.html">Title page</A>] [<A HREF="327.pdf">PDF</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><HR ALIGN=LEFT></P> <P><A HREF="../jjid.html">Go to JJID Homepage</A></P> </BODY> </HTML>