| the effects of climate change and globalization on mosquito vectors: evidence from jeju island, south korea on the potential for asian tiger mosquito (aedes albopictus) influxes and survival from vietnam rather than japan. | climate change affects the survival and transmission of arthropod vectors as well as the development rates of vector-borne pathogens. increased international travel is also an important factor in the spread of vector-borne diseases (vbds) such as dengue, west nile, yellow fever, chikungunya, and malaria. dengue is the most important vector-borne viral disease. an estimated 2.5 billion people are at risk of infection in the world and there are approximately 50 million dengue infections and an est ... | 2013 | 23894312 |
| vaccine chronicle in japan. | the concept of immunization was started in japan in 1849 when jenner's cowpox vaccine seed was introduced, and the current immunization law was stipulated in 1948. there have been two turning points for amendments to the immunization law: the compensation remedy for vaccine-associated adverse events in 1976, and the concept of private vaccination in 1994. in 1992, the regional court of tokyo, not the supreme court, decided the governmental responsibility on vaccine-associated adverse events, whi ... | 2013 | 23835871 |
| promoting health during the american occupation of japan the public health section, kyoto military government team, 1945-1949. | during the american occupation of japan (1945-1952), young public health officers from the us army medical corps were posted in local us army military government teams. these young doctors (aged 25 to 27 years), who had not absorbed the strong anti-japanese tradition of the us military during world war ii, seem to have alleviated the initial resentment felt by the japanese toward the new governors of their homeland. the case of the kyoto military government team illustrates the kyoto citizenry's ... | 2008 | 18235076 |
| epidemiological study of japanese encephalitis virus in vientiane, lao pdr, in 1990s. | phylogenetic analysis of japanese encephalitis virus (jev) was conducted using core-premembrane and envelope gene sequence data of two strains from vientiane, lao people's democratic republic, in 1993 and five from okinawa, japan, in 2002 and 2003, and previously published strains. the two vientiane strains designated as lavs56 and lavs145 belonged to genotype 1 (g1) and the same subcluster of g1 as australian strain in 2000, thai strains in 1982-1985 and 2004-2005, and vietnamese strain in 2005 ... | 2015 | 25695095 |
| canine distemper virus infection among wildlife before and after the epidemic. | in 2007-2008, a canine distemper virus (cdv) epidemic occurred among wild animals in wakayama prefecture, japan, and many mammals, including the wild boar and deer, were infected. in this study, cdv prevalence among wild animals was surveyed before and after the epidemic. at first, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated protein a/g was established to detect cdv antibodies in many mammalian species. this established elisa was available for testing dogs ... | 2015 | 26074342 |