All issues
Volume 52, Issue 8
Displaying 1-6 of 6 articles from this issue
- |<
- <
- 1
- >
- >|
-
[in Japanese]1978 Volume 52 Issue 8 Pages 305-306
Published: August 20, 1978
Released on J-STAGE: September 07, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSDownload PDF (325K) -
Shigenori FUKUYOSHI, Yuhei TAKEHARA, Takashi HASEGAWA, Shunsuke TADA, ...1978 Volume 52 Issue 8 Pages 307-311
Published: August 20, 1978
Released on J-STAGE: September 07, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSInformation has been available on the worldwide spread of influenza epidemics due to the Al (H1N1) type strain since May 1977. Our epidemiological survey revealed that the influenza outbreak of large magnitude in Fukuoka Prefecture from December 1977 to March 1978 was caused not only by the A-Hong Kong (H3N2) strain but also by the A/USSR/77 (H1N1) strain. In theearly period of the epidemic the former strain was prevalent, but in the later period the latter strain was predominantly prevalent particularly among the low-aged population with no experience of its exposure. In addition, while the former strain was recovered from all-aged population, the latter strain exclusively from low-aged population younger than 30 years old. Moreover, the serological survey of the post-epidemic stage for the groups of age of 16-25 indicated that 20.6% of the population became sero-positive to the A/USSR/92/77 (H1N1) strain.View full abstractDownload PDF (514K) -
Nobuhiro HORIUCHI, Toshiaki HAYASHI, Akimitsu TOMONAGA, Tatsuro NAGASA ...1978 Volume 52 Issue 8 Pages 312-322
Published: August 20, 1978
Released on J-STAGE: September 07, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSAs we had a chance to move in the new Nagasaki University hospital building having twelve stories with full air conditioning system in August 1976 from the old hospital, we investigated the bacterial distribution in the both hospital buildings for the purpose of analysis of nosocomial infections. In the new hospital, the bacterial distribution and changes of flora were continuously examined. The results were as follows:
1) Many species of bacteria were isolated most frequently in the tuberculous ward in the old hospital bulding.
2) Although Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Serratia marcescens were isolated from the various places in the old hospital building, it was 18 months later when these organisms were isolated for the first time in the new hospital.
3) There was a tendency that the Enterobacteriaceaye and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were obtained from the sickward at first and spreaded into the nurse station in the new hospital. The consultation room was most polluted in the out patient clinic.
4) A washing stand was proved to be contaminated at the earliest time in the sickroom.
5) Enterobacteriaceae and Ps. aeruginosa were frequently isolated from the moist places and on the other hand glucose nonfermentative gram negative bacilli except Ps. aeruginosa were isolated even from the dry places.
6) G-serotype of Ps. aeruginosa was most frequently isolated from the places of the old hospital and the clinical materials and the strains from the old tuberculous ward were all G-type.View full abstractDownload PDF (1306K) -
Masanao INOUE, Muneshige FURUYAMA, Hiromasa MISUMI, Osamu UEBA, Tathuo ...1978 Volume 52 Issue 8 Pages 323-330
Published: August 20, 1978
Released on J-STAGE: September 07, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSNamely, an infant died by some unknown cause after D. P. T. (Diphtheria-Pertussis-Tetanus) vaccination. Since then, D. P. T. vaccination has been stopped in Okayama Prefecture. In June, 1975, there was frequent incidence of pertussis syndorome in children predominantly in southern regins of Okayama Prefecture, in the age range of 1 to 3 years old. These patients were clarified to have had immunization or incomplete immunization on inquiry. Pertussis has rarely occurred and sporadically during the past decade in Okayama Prefecture. Therefore, we engaged ourselves in the isolation of Bordetella Pertussis from patient nasophanyngeal swab specimens and titration of antibody in the sera to Bordetella Pertussis was done by agglutination test from such patients. As a result, Bordetella Pertussis was isolated from 35 patients out of 194 patients. Its bacterial antigenic structure was to be the same to 1, 3, (4), 6 as the agents currently causing the incidence of this disease in Japan. Titration of 134 pairs of the sera from these patients confirmed to raise the antibody titer of Bordetella Pertussis. In order to ascertain whether or not this disease is caused by adenovirus, these sera were simultaneously examined with CF antibody by micromethods. Adenovirus antibody has shown no significant difference in the values as compared with examinations of 115 sera from infant patients of non-pertussis syndrome. According to many investigators, however, pertussis syndorome is elicited by adenovirus. In contrast, the recent outbreake of pertussis in Okayama Prefecture had no relation, whatever to this but caused only by Bordetella Pertussis.View full abstractDownload PDF (994K) -
In Relation to Arteritis in MCLSHisao Murata1978 Volume 52 Issue 8 Pages 331-337
Published: August 20, 1978
Released on J-STAGE: September 07, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSKawasaki disease was first described as acute febi ile mucocataneous lymphonode syndrome (MCLS) by Kawasaki in 1967, but the etiological agent has not been identified yet to the present time. In recent years, sudden death among the patient of this disease are noted and reported to be due to the strongly histopathological changes in cardiovascular system.
In this relation, the author was successful to produce coronary arteritis in mice by Candida antigen. The Candida antigen for this study was prepared by extract in alkali of C. albicans which was isolated from a typical patient of MCLS. The antigen was inoculated intraperioneally for five continous days and repeatedly inoculated at sixth week of study. The inoculated mice were sacrificed at eleventh week of study and examined histopathologically.
Arteritis limited to coronary artery was observed and histopathologically, granuromatous arteritis without fibrinoid was the characterstic feature of these pathological change, which is quite similar to the changes of vascular in human MCLS.View full abstractDownload PDF (6021K) -
1978 Volume 52 Issue 8 Pages 352-354
Published: August 20, 1978
Released on J-STAGE: September 07, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSDownload PDF (366K)
- |<
- <
- 1
- >
- >|