• Emerging challenges of tuberculosis outbreaks in recent Japan
  
• A large outbreak of tuberculosis infection at a cramming school (juku) in 2005 -Tokyo
  
• An outbreak of tuberculosis at an all-night public bath house, November-December 2003 -Saitama
  
• Usefulness of the QuantiFERON^®TB-2G test performed in investigations of contacts -Kobe City
  
• Molecular epidemiological analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from outbreaks -Chiba
  
• Current status of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Japan
  
• Isolation of CTX-M-β-lactamase-producing Shigella sonnei from a diarrhea case returning from China, August 2006
  
• A case of EHEC O157 infection presumably transmitted from two sheep kept at a primary school, July 2006 -Niigata
  
• Two outbreaks of Campylobacter jejuni food poisoning presumably caused by raw bovine liver, May 2006 -Niigata City
  
• Selection of the 2006/07 season influenza HA vaccine strains in Japan
  
• A local epidemic of influenza B, September 2006 -Hiroshima
  
• Isolation of enteroviruses from herpangina cases and hand, foot and mouth disease ones, January-August 2006 -Kanagawa
  
• Isolation of coxsackievirus B5 from meningitis cases, June-August 2006 -Fukui
  
• An outbreak of meningitis due to echovirus 30 at a nursery school, July-August 2006 -Kobe City
  
• An outbreak of meningitis due to echovirus 18 at a primary school, June 2006 -Oita
  
• Domestic infection of cholera among homeless people, 2001-2006 -Tokyo and Yokohama
  
• An outbreak of shigellosis on a distant water tuna fishing boat, March-June 2006
  
• An infant botulism case in which detected were Clostridium botulinum type B and its toxin, May 2006 -Osaka
  
• A meningitis case due to Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y, February 2006 -Yamagata
  
• An outbreak of paragonimiasis westermani caused by consumption of Japanese mitten crabs, September-November 2004 -Saga
  
• An epidemic of group A rotavirus genotype G9, February-May 2006 -Okayama
  
• Detection of group A rotavirus genotype G3 from spinal fluid, nasopharyngeal swab, and feces of a gastroenteritis case complicated with encephalitis, April 2006 -Kanagawa

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