| case report: an outbreak of food-borne typhoid fever due to salmonella enterica serotype typhi in japan reported for the first time in 16 years. | for the first time in 16 years, a food-borne outbreak of typhoid fever due to salmonella enterica serotype typhi was reported in japan. seven patients consumed food in an indian buffet at a restaurant in the center of tokyo, while one was a nepali chef in the restaurant, an asymptomatic carrier and the implicated source of this outbreak. the multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis showed 100% consistency in the genomic sequence for five of the eight cases. | 2016 | 26621565 |
| case series of imported enteric fever at a referral center in tokyo, japan: antibiotic susceptibility and risk factors for relapse. | owing to the increase in salmonella strains with decreased fluoroquinolone susceptibility in the endemic areas, we have been treating enteric fever with intravenous ceftriaxone empirically since 2007. in this study, we reevaluated our treatment protocol. this retrospective cohort study was conducted at a single institute in tokyo, japan, between january 2006 and december 2013. enteric fever was defined as isolation of salmonella typhi or salmonella paratyphi a, b, and c from the blood and/or sto ... | 2016 | 27162265 |
| epidemiological investigations of typhoid and paratyphoid fever in japan with aid of the phage typing method. i. distribution of phage-types of salmonella typhi and salmonella paratyphi b in japan, 1956-1965. | | 1967 | 4968085 |
| clinical and bacteriological profiles of patients with typhoid fever treated during 1975-1998 in the tokyo metropolitan komagome hospital. | patients with typhoid fever presenting to the tokyo metropolitan komagome hospital during the period 1975-1998 were retrospectively investigated. all cases were diagnosed by a positive culture for salmonella typhi in either of their clinical specimens. of the total number of 130 patients, 57% contracted the disease abroad; this population increased in later years as the total numbers of cases decreased. the period from disease onset to diagnosis averaged 14 days with 20% of the cases requiring o ... | 2000 | 10981830 |