In preparation for the meeting of the World Health Organization Working Group on Monitoring and Management of Bacterial Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents, representatives of 10 countries were asked to provide brief reports on the status of surveillance in their countries. Some gave extensive information on the methods used to test susceptibility of nosocomial pathogens to a variety of antibiot...

influenza: our experience during the 2009 pandemic in Japan Akihisa Okumura, Satoshi Nakagawa, Hisashi Kawashima, Takashi Muguruma, Osamu Saito, Jun-ichi Fujimoto, Chiaki Toida, Shuji Kuga, Toshihiro Imamura, Toshiaki Shimizu, Naomi Kondo, Tsuneo Morishima Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Division of Critical Care Medicine, National Center for Chi...

Shigekazu Iguchi *, Yuji Hirai , Yusuke Ainoda , Noriko Isoda , Hitomi Miura , Hiroto Egawa , Masakazu Yamamoto , Ken Kikuchi a Department of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan Department of Hematology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan Department of Clinical Laboratory, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan d Institute of Gastroenterology,...

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, or histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, is an infrequent idiopathic disorder. It has been associated with autoimmune disorders, of which systemic lupus erythematosus is the most outstanding. The basis of its diagnosis relies on the histological examination of lymph nodes, which typically reveals necrosis surrounded by histiocytes with crescentic nucleus, immunoblasts...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, or histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, is a rare, benign, autoimmune condition characterized by lymphadenopathy, fever and neutropenia. It is a self-limited condition of unknown etiology. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 45-year-old Caucasian man with the first known case of Kikuchi disease associated with dramatic weight loss a...

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a benign and self-limited disorder, characterized by regional cervical lymphadenopathy with tenderness, usually accompanied with mild fever and night sweats. Less frequent symptoms include weight loss, nausea, vomiting, sore throat. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is an extremely rare disease known to have a worldwide distribution with higher prevalence among Japanese...

A 44-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of persistent high fever. Both CT and PET-CT demonstrated lymph node lesions limited to the mediastinal region without cervical lymphadenopathy. Histology of a mediastinal lymph node obtained by video-assisted thoroscopic excision confirmed the diagnosis of histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis. To our knowledge, this is the first report of...

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD), or histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, is a benign and self-limited disease that mainly affects young women. Patients present with localized lymphadenopathy, fever, and leukopenia in up to half of the cases. KFD can occur in association with systemic lupus erythematosus. We present the case of a patient with KFD and systemic lupus erythematosus, as well as rel...