IASR Vol.37, No.4 (No.434), April 2016 : Measles and Rubella/Congenital Rubella Syndrome in Japan, as of March 2016

IASR Vol. 37, No. 4 (No. 434) April 2016

  Measles and Rubella/Congenital Rubella Syndrome in Japan, as of March 2016

• Progress towards measles elimination in the Western Pacific Region of WHO
• A case of measles who developed symptoms shortly after returning from Mongolia, July 2015--Nara Prefecture
• Importance of inter-municipality coordination for maintaining measles elimination status: Shizuoka Prefecture's Western District's experience from an imported measles case from Qatar
• Measles situation in Indonesia
• Osaka Prefectural Public Health Institute's contribution to measles control
• Trends in clinically suspected and laboratory diagnosed cases of reported measles, 2011 to 2015--National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases
• Laboratory diagnosis of measles and rubella: capacity and role of Prefectural and Municipal Public Health Institutes
• Measles & rubella seroprevalence and measles & rubella vaccine coverage in Japan, FY2015--National Epidemiological Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (interim data)
• Provision of rubella antibody testing and MR vaccination for adults supported by public funds, Aichi Prefecture--perspectives from a health center
• Current global situation of rubella control
• Tokyo Prefecture's new project that supports private sector's company-based activities for control and prevention of rubella and other infections
• Towards rubella elimination by FY2020
• Contribution of obstetrics/gynecology clinics for prevention, control and elimination of rubella
• Japan's strategy for control of measles and rubella--Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
• NDM-5-metallo-β-lactamase producing Escherichia coli ST410 infection in Japan

Data

• Salmonella Typhi & Salmonella Paratyphi A phage types from human sources, Japan
  (Feb. 21, 2016 - Apr. 20, 2016)