Intrafamilial transmission of a Sabin 1-related poliovirus in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Assessment of poliovirus eradication in Japan: genomic analysis of polioviruses isolated from river water and sewage in toyama prefecture.

Seventy-eight poliovirus strains isolated from river water and sewage in Toyama Prefecture, Japan, during 1993 to 1995 were characterized by the PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) method and by partially sequencing the VP3 and VP1 regions of the viral genome. Of these isolates, 36 were identified as Sabin vaccine strains, and 42 were identified as vaccine variant strains that h...

Studies on Sabin Vaccine Administration in Nagaoka City in 1960.

Nagaoka City, a city with a population of about 150,000 in Niigata prefecture, experienced an epidemic of poliovirus type 2 infections in 1958 in which 21 paralytic cases were observed, showing a case incidence of approximately 40 per 100,000 population (Saito et al., 1960, Kitaoka, 1960). The Health Authorities of the city had been interested in introducing protective measures against polio in...

Improvement in the yield of oral poliovirus vaccine (Sabin strains) produced in human diploid cells

Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium sp. Strain shizuoka-1, a Novel Mycobacterium Isolated from Groundwater of a Bathing Facility in Shizuoka, Japan

Mycobacterium sp. strain shizuoka-1 is a rapidly growing scotochromogenic mycobacterium and was isolated from well water for a bathing facility in Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan. Here, we report the draft sequence of its genome, comprising a 6.5-Mb chromosome. This mycobacterium has 83.1% identity with Mycobacterium rhodesiae, a human pathogen.

A survey of β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in farm animals and raw retail meat in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

We surveyed β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli from farm animals (chickens, pigs, and cattle) and raw retail meat in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. In total 305 E. coli isolates, 15 isolates collected from broilers, beef cattle, chicken meat, and pork meat, were found to have β-lactamase genes encoding CTX-M-2, CTX-M-14, CMY-2, SHV-2, and/or TEM-1, whereas 7 possessed mutations in the ampC pro...