A New Strategy for Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia: A 2-Year Prospective Multicenter Cohort Study Using Risk Factors for Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens to Select Initial Empiric Therapy

Takaya Maruyama, Takao Fujisawa, Mitsuru Okuno, +13

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Diagnostic Skin Test Reactions with Varicella Virus Antigen and Clinical Application of the Test

H Kamiya, Toshiaki Ihara, Akiko Hattori, +5

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

VaccinationVeterinary VaccineVaricella Virus AntigenVaricella InfectionClinical Application +11

Application of a Live Varicella Vaccine in Children With Acute Leukemia or Other Malignant Diseases

Tadasu Izawa, Toshiaki Ihara, Akihiko Hattori, +4

PEDIATRICS

VaccinationVaccinologyNatural VaricellaVaccine DevelopmentVaccine Target +11

Serotypes, antimicrobial susceptibility, and molecular epidemiology of invasive and non-invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in paediatric patients after the introduction of 13-valent conjugate vaccine in a nationwide surveillance study conducted in Japan in 2012–2014

Satoshi Nakano, Takao Fujisawa, Yutaka Ito, +10

Vaccine

Molecular EpidemiologyKlebsiella PneumoniaeIpd IsolatesBacterial PathogensIpd Patients +16

Rapid detection and typing of influenza A and B by loop-mediated isothermal amplification: Comparison with immunochromatography and virus isolation

Masahiro Ito, Masahiro Watanabe, Naoko Nakagawa, +2

Journal of Virological Methods

VaccinationDiagnostic VirologyViral DiagnosticsNucleic Acid Amplification TestVirology +5

Nationwide population-based surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease in Japanese children: Effects of the seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

Shigeru Suga, Bin Chang, Kazutoyo Asada, +13

Vaccine

VaccinationVaccine SafetyInvasive Pneumococcal DiseaseJapanese ChildrenPreventive Medicine +8

Rapid Diagnostic Method for Detection of Mumps Virus Genome by Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification

Takao Okafuji, Naoko Yoshida, Motoko Fujino, +5

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

A comparative study of the incidence of aseptic meningitis in symptomatic natural mumps patients and monovalent mumps vaccine recipients in Japan

Takao Nagai, Teruo Okafuji, Chiaki Miyazaki, +15

Vaccine

VaccinationVaccine SafetyAseptic MeningitisVaccine HesitancyBacterial Meningitis +3

Molecular epidemiology of mumps virus in Japan and proposal of two new genotypes

Yoko Inou, Tetsuo Nakayama, Naoko Yoshida, +15

Journal of Medical Virology

New GenotypesViral EvolutionVirus EpidemiologyMolecular EpidemiologyViral Diagnostics +11

Effects of tumor necrosis factor alpha on replication of varicella-zoster virus

Masahiro Ito, Takashi Nakano, Toshiya Kamiya, +4

Antiviral Research

Viral ReplicationMolecular VirologyVaricella-zoster VirusPathogenesisViral Pathogenesis +5