Infectious Disease Surveillance System of Infectious Diseases in Japan

Ohshiro, Hitoshi; Kawamoto, Katsuyuki; Nose, Takayuki

doi:10.2188/jea.6.3sup_81

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“…The numbers of samples collected in each year were as follows: 2006 (n = 114), 2007 (n = 45), 2008 (n = 21), 2009 (n = 22), 2010 (n = 4), 2011 (n = 18), 2012 (n = 41), and 2013 (n = 47). The samples were collected during routine pathogen surveillance, which is performed in Japan in accordance with the Infectious Disease Control Law [Ohshiro et al, ]. Both hospitalized and community‐dwelling patients were included in this study.…”

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Detection of gastroenteritis viruses among pediatric patients in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, between 2006 and 2013 using multiplex reverse transcription PCR-based assays involving fluorescent dye-labeled primers

Shigemoto¹,

Hisatsune²,

Toukubo³

et al. 2016

J. Med. Virol.

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Multiplex reverse transcription (RT)-polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assays involving fluorescent dye-labeled primers were modified to detect 10 types of gastroenteritis viruses by adding two further assays to a previously developed assay. Then, these assays were applied to clinical samples, which were collected between January 2006 and December 2013. All 10 types of viruses were effectively detected in the multiplex RT-PCR-based assays. In addition, various viral parameters, such as the detection rates and age distributions of each viral type, were examined. The frequency and types of mixed infections were also investigated. Among the 186 virus-positive samples, genogroup II noroviruses were found to be the most common type of virus (32.7%), followed by group A rotaviruses (10.6%) and parechoviruses (10.3%). Mixed infections were observed in 37 samples, and many of them were detected in patients who were less than 2 years old. These observations showed that the multiplex RT-PCR-based assays involving fluorescent dye-labeled primers were able to effectively detect the viruses circulating among pediatric acute gastroenteritis patients and contributed to the highly specific and sensitive diagnosis of gastroenteritis. J. Med. Virol. 89:791-800, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Detection of gastroenteritis viruses among pediatric patients in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, between 2006 and 2013 using multiplex reverse transcription PCR-based assays involving fluorescent dye-labeled primers

Shigemoto¹,

Hisatsune²,

Toukubo³

et al. 2016

J. Med. Virol.

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“…Recruitment is on a volunteer basis. Sentinels forward clinical data to ≈60 prefectural or municipal public health institutes, and data generated are electronically reported to the Infectious Disease Surveillance Center in the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Tokyo) ( 5 , 6 ). …”

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“…The National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases in Japan features sentinel surveillance for 27 infectious diseases, including influenza ( 5 , 6 ). To better understand the movement and velocity of influenza epidemic spread from 1992 to 1999 in Japan, we used a geographic information system (GIS) with generated weekly surveillance data.…”

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Geographic and Temporal Trends in Influenzalike Illness, Japan, 1992–1999

Sakai

Sano

Sasaki

et al. 2004

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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“…Previous studies demonstrate that surveillance is useful in detecting specified communicable diseases. Such systems include the sentinel provider system (USA) [12], sentinel physician networks (European countries) [13], influenza surveillance system (Japan) [14], Australian sentinel practice research network (Australia) [15], epidemiological surveillance networks (France) [16], electronic point-of-sale (EPOS) pharmacy (England) [17], infectious diseases surveillance system (Japan) [18], ambulatory-care-based syndromic surveillance system (USA) [19], real-time syndrome surveillance (Canada) [20], and infectious disease prevention and control system (Germany) [21]. A categorization of computerized ENID surveillance systems by the timeliness of their response is shown in Fig.…”

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Design and prototype of a mechanism for active on-line emerging/notifiable infectious diseases control, tracking and surveillance, based on a national healthcare card system

Huang

Hou

2007

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

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Timeliness is a critical issue in preventing the spread of emerging/notifiable infectious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or avian influenza (bird flu). Current computerized surveillance systems in many countries have demonstrated their usefulness in detecting specified communicable-diseases. However, the off-line, daily or weekly data reporting mode induces a time lag in data collection, transmission, processing, and responses. This paper proposes an on-line real-time mechanism, named EDICTS, for emerging/notifiable infectious diseases control, tracking and surveillance. It is based on the on-line health IC card system and works at the registration process of primary care practices and emergency departments. Hence, should a disease defined by CDC (Center for disease control) be detected at the registration station, EDICTS responds in real time. Note that EDICTS is a mechanism; it is CDC that determines the policy and activates it. A prototype is designed and implemented on a simulated environment of the Taiwan's national health insurance IC card system. The proposed policy and rules are defined according to the CDC regulations. Timely, sensitive and cost-effective, EDICTS complements the existing successive level of CDC reporting system as a fast-response control channel.

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Infectious Disease Surveillance System of Infectious Diseases in Japan

Cited by 12 publications

References 3 publications

Detection of gastroenteritis viruses among pediatric patients in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, between 2006 and 2013 using multiplex reverse transcription PCR-based assays involving fluorescent dye-labeled primers

Detection of gastroenteritis viruses among pediatric patients in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, between 2006 and 2013 using multiplex reverse transcription PCR-based assays involving fluorescent dye-labeled primers

Geographic and Temporal Trends in Influenzalike Illness, Japan, 1992–1999

Design and prototype of a mechanism for active on-line emerging/notifiable infectious diseases control, tracking and surveillance, based on a national healthcare card system

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