
IASR Vol. 33, No.6 (No. 388) June 2012  
- Review: Food poisoning caused by Kudoa septempunctata, a flatfish parasite
 - Kudoa septempunctata food poisoning outbreak due to consumption of imported flatfish, September 2011―Mie
 - Kudoa septempunctata food poisoning outbreak due to imported flatfish consumed raw, September 2011―Hokkaido
 - Kudoa septempunctata food poisoning outbreak due to imported flatfish consumed raw, October 2011―Nara City
 - Detection of Kudoa species from flatfish, tuna fish, sea bream and other fish specimens involved in diarrhea events after consumption of raw fish, June 2011-April 2012―Tokyo
 - Response to Kudoa septempunctata food poisoning in fish producer prefectures: pre-market screening of flatfish―Oita
 - Improved Kudoa septempunctata specific real-time PCR
 - Review: Sarcosporidiosis (sarcocystosis)
 - Sarcocystis fayeri  food poisoning outbreak due to consumption of raw horsemeat, September 2011―Okayama
 - Development of method for detection of Sarcocystis fayeri specific DNA from stool specimens by means of nested-PCR
 - Prevalence of Sarcocystis cruzi among cattle revealed by investigation of beef meat produced in Gifu Prefecture later than June 2011
 - Notice from MHLW: Decision on influenza virus strains to be used for the 2012/13 season influenza HA vaccine in Japan
 - Clinical investigation of hospital admitted Mycoplasma pneumoniae patients during the 2011 epidemic season―NIID
 - A tetanus case, from whose injury site Clostridium tetani was isolated, November 2011―Kagoshima
 - Isolation of Haemophilus influenzae type e from blood specimen of a fatal aspiration pneumonia and bacteremia case, January 2012―Akita
 - Response to a measles outbreak due to genotype D9 measles virus imported from Philippines, January-February 2012―Okayama
 - Detection of rubella virus genotype 1E and 2B from measles-suspected cases, 2011-2012―Aichi
 - Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis outbreak in 2011 and isolation of coxsackievirus A24 variant―Okinawa
 - HIV/AIDS in Japan, January-March, 2012