• Evidence of the educational effect on AIDS prevention acquired from a project in Nagasaki, 2002
  
• Increase in examinees by introduction of STI tests performed with HIV testing at a health center, 2002 - Okayama City
  
• Improvement of the laboratory steps in screening and confirmatory tests for diagnosis of HIV infection
  
• Case reports on misidentification of Escherichia coli and Morganella morganii for Shigella|Okinawa, Shiga, Chiba and Tokyo
  
• Important rules of Shigella identification
  
• Problems in Shigella identification and proposals from clinical laboratory
  
• A probable diffuse outbreak of EHEC O157:H7 infection due to raw minced beef (Yukke), July 2003 - Saitama and Tokyo
  
• Composition of the 2003/04 influenza HA vaccine in Japan
  
• Selection of the 2003/04 influenza HA vaccine strains in Japan
  
• Increase in hemagglutination activity against turkey blood cells observed by passages of influenza virus type AH3
  
• Reports of enterovirus isolation in different places in Japan, April-August 2003
  
  • 1. Hand, foot and mouth disease: Enterovirus 71-Fukushima, Shimane, Hiroshima, Kochi, Osaka City and Hiroshima City;
    
  • 2. Meningitis: Echovirus 30-Shiga, Nara, Kagawa, Kochi, Hiroshima City, Sakai City and Sapporo City, Echovirus 6-Sakai City; Echovirus 9-Kagawa;
    
  • 3. Exanthema: Echovirus 9-Iwate;
    
  • 4. Upper respiratory disease: Coxsackievirus A10 and Echovirus 30-Sapporo City;
    
  • 5. Herpangina and upper respiratory disease: Coxsackievirus A4-Akita
    
• Isolation of adenovirus type 3, April-July 2003: Respiratory disease - Kagawa; Pharyngoconjunctival fever - Fukuoka City
  
• AIDS and HIV infections in Japan, April - June 2003
  

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