Literature DB >> 11076712

Recent trends in tuberculosis, Japan.

T Mori1.   

Abstract

Despite a decline after World War II, the rate of tuberculosis in Japan remains high. Infection is heavily concentrated in the > or =60-year age group, and 82% of patients are > or =40 years of age. The success rate for treatment of smear-positive patients is 78%. Multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are rare.

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Year:  2000        PMID： 11076712      PMCID： PMC2640925          DOI： 10.3201/eid0606.000602

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Emerg Infect Dis        ISSN： 1080-6040            Impact factor:   6.883


  12 in total

1.  Comparison of performance in two diagnostic methods for tuberculosis infection.

Authors:  Kazue Higuchi; Yoshiko Kawabe; Satoshi Mitarai; Takashi Yoshiyama; Nobuyuki Harada; Toru Mori
Journal:  Med Microbiol Immunol       Date:  2008-11-26       Impact factor: 3.402

2.  Population structure dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strains during past decades in Japan.

Authors:  Tomotada Iwamoto; Riyo Fujiyama; Shiomi Yoshida; Takayuki Wada; Chika Shirai; Yasuto Kawakami
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2009-08-26       Impact factor: 5.948

3.  Optimizing the Lee-Carter Approach in the Presence of Structural Changes in Time and Age Patterns of Mortality Improvements.

Authors:  Hong Li; Johnny Siu-Hang Li
Journal:  Demography       Date:  2017-06

4.  Japan's national tuberculosis control strategies with economic considerations.

Authors:  Nader Ghotbi; Shuzo Nishimura; Naoyoshi Takatsuka
Journal:  Environ Health Prev Med       Date:  2005-07       Impact factor: 3.674

5.  Evaluation of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus for Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in Japan.

Authors:  Lina Yi; Yuka Sasaki; Hideaki Nagai; Satoru Ishikawa; Mikio Takamori; Kentaro Sakashita; Takefumi Saito; Kiyoyasu Fukushima; Yuriko Igarashi; Akio Aono; Kinuyo Chikamatsu; Hiroyuki Yamada; Akiko Takaki; Toru Mori; Satoshi Mitarai
Journal:  Sci Rep       Date:  2016-07-29       Impact factor: 4.379

6.  Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transmission among Elderly Persons, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, 2009-2015.

Authors:  Junji Seto; Takayuki Wada; Yu Suzuki; Tatsuya Ikeda; Katsumi Mizuta; Taro Yamamoto; Tadayuki Ahiko
Journal:  Emerg Infect Dis       Date:  2017-03       Impact factor: 6.883

7.  Risk of tuberculosis among air passengers estimated by interferon gamma release assay: survey of contact investigations, Japan, 2012 to 2015.

Authors:  Masaki Ota; Seiya Kato
Journal:  Euro Surveill       Date:  2017-03-23

8.  Association of the past epidemic of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with mortality and incidence of COVID-19.

Authors:  Kazuo Inoue; Saori Kashima
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2021-06-18       Impact factor: 3.240

9.  Tuberculosis examination using whole blood interferon-gamma release assay among health care workers in a Japanese hospital without tuberculosis-specific wards.

Authors:  Eisuke Adachi; Mika Kogayu; Takeshi Fujii; Hiroshi Mae; Shoichi Shimizu; Yuichi Iwai; Hiroko Shibata; Masato Suzuki; Kohzoh Imai; Tomohiko Koibuchi
Journal:  Springerplus       Date:  2013-09-05

10.  Whole blood interferon-gamma assay for baseline tuberculosis screening among Japanese healthcare students.

Authors:  Katsuyuki Hotta; Toshio Ogura; Kenji Nishii; Tsuyoshi Kodani; Masaru Onishi; Yukito Shimizu; Arihiko Kanehiro; Katsuyuki Kiura; Mitsune Tanimoto; Kazuo Tobe
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2007-08-29       Impact factor: 3.240
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