| [bacteriological investigation on an outbreak of acute enteritis associated with verotoxin-producing escherichia coli o111:h-]. | an outbreak of acute enteritis in children aged one to thirty-three months occurred from june 10th to 23rd, 1986, at a private orphanage in matsuyama city. twenty-two out of 23 children suffered from diarrhea. nine of the 22 children excreted bloody stool. fever and vomiting were observed with a few patients. one of them, a 33-month-old girl, developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, and died twelve days after the admission. escherichia coli o111:h- was isolated from fecal specimens of 7 out of 15 pa ... | 1989 | 2693538 |
| studies on babesia first found in murine in japan: epidemiology, morphology and experimental infection. | during the period from november 1980 to september 1982, 314 small wild mammals were captured in 5 localities in japan. twenty-six out of 86 apodemus speciosus and one out of 6 a. argenteus both species captured in shiga prefecture (35 degrees 02'n, 135 degrees 50'e, 330 m elev .) were positive for babesia. the parasitemia in those animals was generally low. the infection rate did not show any significant difference between sexes of the host or between seasons, whereas it tended to go up with the ... | 1984 | 6730782 |
| [a familial outbreak of verotoxin-producing escherichia coli o103:h2 infection in which a calf was the suspected infectious source]. | a familial outbreak of verotoxin-producing escherichia coli (vtec) infection occurred in july 1996 in akita prefecture. four vtec strains harboring vt-1 and eaea genes were isolated from three patients and a calf, breeding farm for which was located as close as 4 meters from the house where the patients lived in. all of the 4 vtec isolates were serotyped as o63:h2 using commercially available sera kits. however, a patient isolate, ec-281, was serotyped as 0103:h2 at the international escherichia ... | 1998 | 9745220 |