著者

Takehiro Hashimoto Satoshi Kutsuna Takahiro Maeki Shigeru Tajima Saho Takaya Yuichi Katanami Kei Yamamoto Nozomi Takeshita Kayoko Hayakawa Yasuyuki Kato Shuzo Kanagawa Norio Ohmagari

出版者

国立感染症研究所 Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases 編集委員会

雑誌

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases (ISSN:13446304)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.JJID.2017.181, (Released:2017-09-11)

参考文献数

14

被引用文献数

4

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Dengue fever remains underreported in Africa due to lack of awareness among healthcare providers, the presence of other febrile illnesses, and insufficient laboratory testing. We present a case of imported dengue fever from Burkina Faso to Japan, where an outbreak of dengue was reported on October 18, 2016. The phylogenetic analysis revealed that the isolate from our patient belonged to a distinct of sylvatic dengue viruses, suggesting that dengue viruses have been maintained in the mosquitoes and human cycles in Burkina Faso for more than 30 years.

著者

Yusuke Ainoda Nozomi Takeshita Ryota Hase Takahiro Mikawa Naoto Hosokawa Ichiro Kawamura Hanako Kurai Masahiro Abe Muneyoshi Kimura Hideki Araoka Takahiro Fujita Kyoichi Totsuka Kazuhisa Mezaki Noritaka Sekiya Norio Ohmagari

出版者

国立感染症研究所 Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases 編集委員会

雑誌

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases (ISSN:13446304)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.JJID.2016.130, (Released:2016-12-22)

参考文献数

17

被引用文献数

7

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Staphylococcus lugdunensis (SL) is a highly pathogenic bacterium compared to other coagulase-negative Staphylococcus spp. (CoNS). However, in Japan, data for this pathogen are sparse, and the current prevalence of SL bacteremia is unknown.A prospective multicenter study across five facilities was performed to investigate the prevalence of SL in blood culture specimens. There were 3,284 patients with positive blood cultures, and 2,478 patients had bacteremia. Among patients with bacteremia, 7 patients (0.28%) had SL bacteremia. A total of 281 patients had CoNS bacteremia, and SL accounted for 2.49% of these cases. Of the 7 patients with SL bacteremia, 1 patient (14.3%) had infective endocarditis, and 1 patient (14.3%) died within 30 days. In this study, SL resulted in the development of bacteremia in select patients. Clinicians in Japan should be aware of the prevalence of SL and the complications of SL bacteremia.

著者

Yusuke Ainoda Nozomi Takeshita Ryota Hase Takahiro Mikawa Naoto Hosokawa Ichiro Kawamura Hanako Kurai Masahiro Abe Muneyoshi Kimura Hideki Araoka Takahiro Fujita Kyoichi Totsuka Kazuhisa Mezaki Noritaka Sekiya Norio Ohmagari

出版者

National Institute of Infectious Diseases

雑誌

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases (ISSN:13446304)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.70, no.4, pp.405-407, 2017 (Released:2017-07-24)

参考文献数

17

被引用文献数

7 7

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Staphylococcus lugdunensis (SL) is a bacterium with a highly pathogenicity than most other coagulase-negative Staphylococcus spp. (CoNS). In Japan, data on this pathogen are sparse, and the current prevalence of SL bacteremia is unknown. Therefore, we investigated the prevalence of SL in blood culture specimens in a prospective multicenter study across 5 facilities. A total of 3,284 patients had positive blood cultures, and 2,478 patients had bacteremia. Among the patients with bacteremia, 7 patients (0.28%) had SL bacteremia. A total of 281 patients had CoNS bacteremia, with SL accounting for 2.49% of these cases. Of the 7 patients with SL bacteremia, 1 patient (14.3%) had infective endocarditis, and 1 patient (14.3%) died within 30 days. In this study, SL resulted in the development of bacteremia in select patients. Clinicians in Japan should be aware of the prevalence of SL and the complications of SL bacteremia.

著者

Kei Yamamoto Yasuyuki Kato Takuma Shindo Mugen Ujiie Nozomi Takeshita Shuzo Kanagawa Junwa Kunimatsu Yuiichi Tamori Toshikazu Kano Rumi Okuno Hideyuki Takahashi Norio Ohmagari

出版者

国立感染症研究所 Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases 編集委員会

雑誌

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases (ISSN:13446304)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.66, no.5, pp.443-445, 2013 (Released:2013-09-19)

参考文献数

10

被引用文献数

1 5

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We present the first reported case of systemic infection with Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W-135 sequence type (ST)-11 in Japan. A 44-year-old woman presented with high fever, sore throat, and fatigue and was diagnosed with N. meningitidis bacteremia. The causative strain was identified as serogroup W-135 ST-11 by polymerase chain reaction and multilocus sequence typing. Approximately 1 month after treatment, she developed high fever, dyspnea, chest pain, and shoulder pain due to pericarditis, polyarthritis, and tenosynovitis, which are all relatively common immunoreactive complications of W-135 ST-11 meningococcal infections. This causative strain was the same as that responsible for an outbreak of meningitis among Hajj pilgrims in 2000. The strain is now found worldwide because it can attain a high carriage rate and has a long duration of carriage. We suspect that our patient's infection was acquired from an imported chronic carrier.