IASR Vol.37, No.2 (No.432), February 2016 : Poliomyelitis as of 2016

IASR Vol. 37, No.2 (No. 432) February 2016

  Poliomyelitis as of 2016

• Progress of the WHO Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013-2018
• Polio eradication program in the WHO Western Pacific Region:challenges and response
• Biorisk management of poliovirus
• Current status and risk of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus
• Immunization coverage and seroprevalence before and after the introduction of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine in FY2011-2014, Japan-National Epidemiological Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
• Enteroviruses detected from environmental waters in 2014 through the environmental poliovirus surveillance program of the National Epidemiological Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
• Isolation of rubella virus from an exanthema case who returned from Viet Nam, November 2015-Mie Prefecture
• Nationwide survey of pediatric asthma cases during the enterovirus D68 epidemic in Japan, January 2010-October 2015
• Epidemiology of enterovirus D68 in Japan, 2005-2015 (as of 20 January 2016)
• Report of an imported case of hepatitis E, August 2015
• Risk of Paragonimus westermanii infection through consumption of venison in Japan
• A case of tetanus in a child, October 2015 
• Pelvic suppuration caused by Mycoplasma hominis infection after Caesarean section

Salmonella Typhi & Salmonella Paratyphi A phage types from human sources, Japan
(Dec. 21, 2015 - Feb. 20, 2016)