IASR Vol.39, No.3 (No.457), March 2018 : Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in Japan as of January 2018

IASR Vol. 39,
No. 3 (No. 457) March 2018

Amendments to the ministerial order pertaining to the control of rubella
Follow-up report of 45 congenital rubella syndrome case patients born in 2012-2014
Laboratory diagnosis of rubella: status among cases registered in NESID, April 2014 to December 2016
Laboratory diagnostic methods for rubella
Diagnostic value of rubella IgM antibody testing in adults
An attempt at detecting rubella virus from umbilical cords
Rubella vaccination status and seroprevalence in Japan, FY2017―National Epidemiological Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (provisional results)
Tokyo Prefecture’s response efforts towards rubella elimination 　→ Link to JJID
“The Rubella Zero” Project 2018―in progress!
Rubella elimination in the WHO Western Pacific Region: progress and current response efforts
Tick-borne encephalitis in Hokkaido, 2017
Trends in occurrence of syphilis in Okinawa Prefecture, 2011-2017