Black-eared Kite Populations in Kobe City, Japan

Analysis of adenoviruses isolated in Kobe City, Japan, from 2000 to 2007.

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Kobe Institute of Health, 4-6 Minatojima-nakamachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0046, Japan. Tel: +81-78-302-6252, Fax: +81-78-302-0894, E-mail: tomoko_ [email protected] Adenoviruses cause various types of illness in children. A total of 346 adenovirus isolates were obtained from 236 patients admitted to the pediatrics department at Kobe City Medical Center...

Shigellosis in Kobe City, Japan, after school excursion to Malaysia and Singapore.

Shigella sonnei was isolated from six high school students in Kobe, Japan after a January 2006 excursion to Malaysia and Singapore and from a member of one sudent’s family in Kobe. A medical facility reported a case of shigellosis to the Kobe Public Health Center on January 31, 2006. Five days earlier the patient, a 17-year-old boy, had complained of a fever (39°C), diarrhea and abdominal pain....

Isolation of measles virus classified as D5 genotype during an outbreak in Kobe City, Japan, in 2007.

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Kobe Institute of Health, 4-6 Minatojima-nakamachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0046, Japan. Tel: +81-78-302-6252, Fax: +81-78-302-0894, E-mail: kyoshi @mrg.biglobe.ne.jp Measles became widely prevalent in Japan in the spring of 2007 after an interval of 6 years (1). The reported number of measles cases started to increase in Kobe City at the beginning of May. The ...

Outbreak of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis caused by adenovirus type 54 in a nursery school in Kobe City, Japan in 2008.

Earthquake damages to hospitals and clinics in Kobe, Japan.