| [prevalence of hepatitis c virus and human immunodeficiency virus infection among japanese female prostitutes]. | to investigate the incidence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection in japanese sexual workers, 191 out of 194 female prostitutes working in a certain district of the tokyo metropolitan area were tested for anti-hcv, anti-hepatitis b virus (hbv), anti-hiv and anti-treponema pallidum (tp). they were also interviewed with regard to their past history of blood transfusion, vaccination against hbv, liver diseases and repeated skin piercing treatments such as tatt ... | 1993 | 8329759 |
| present characteristics of symptomatic entamoeba histolytica infection in the big cities of japan. | medical records, for 2000 and 2001, of symptomatic amoebic patients who were treated at our hospitals in tokyo, yokohama and osaka were studied retrospectively for the purpose of gathering epidemiological data on symptomatic entamoeba histolytica infection. a total of 58 patients were treated. fifty-five of them were male, and 96% of the male patients were japanese. the mean age of patients was 44.9 years old, and 91% of patients contracted the disease in japan. fifty-six per cent of the male pa ... | 2004 | 14979590 |
| present characteristics of symptomatic amebiasis due to entamoeba histolytica in the east-southeast area of tokyo. | admitted medical records, from january 1988 to december 1995, of 28 symptomatic amebic patients who lived in the east-southeast area of tokyo were studied retrospectively, in order to find the present characteristics of symptomatic amebiasis due to entamoeba histolytica in this area. categorized by disease, there were 14 cases of colitis, 9 cases of liver abscess, 4 cases of colitis with liver abscess, and 1 case of liver abscess with brain abscess. patients consisted of 26 japanese males, 0 jap ... | 1997 | 9440441 |