Hydrangea Diseases in Japan

Hydrangea

Increasing parasitic diseases in Japan.

Parasitoses are a large group of infectious diseases with diverse host assemblages and transmission patterns. In Japan, after World War II, the nationwide campaign which was enforced by the new public health knowledge against parasitic diseases successfully controlled the classical soiltransmitted parasitoses such as ascariasis, trichuriasis and hookworm diseases. Some other diseases such as do...

Complete Genome Sequences of Two Hydrangea Ringspot Virus Isolates from Japan

Hydrangea ringspot virus (HdRSV) is a plant RNA virus, naturally infectingHydrangea macrophylla Here, we report the first genomic sequences of two HdRSV isolates from hydrangea plants in Japan. The overall nucleotide sequences of these Japanese isolates were 96.0 to 96.3% identical to those of known European isolates.

Folic acid-responsive neurological diseases in Japan.

Folic acid (folate) levels were measured in the serum of patients with various neurological diseases in Japan. Thirty-six patients showed decreased serum folate levels among 343 consecutive neurological patients (10.5%). Folate administration (15 mg/d) to folate-deficient patients improved neurological symptoms in 24 of 36 cases (67%). Serum folate levels were significantly lower in female than...

P03-023 – Autoinflammatory diseases database in Japan

Introduction In recent years, responsible genes for autoinflammatory diseases have been increasingly known and clinical phenotype-genotype correlations of these diseases have been explored through international clinical databases such as EUROFEVER project. However, clinical features of genetic disorders could be affected by countries and races of the patients. Actually, patients with Familial M...