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2003 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A measles outbreak occurred in a suburb of Tokyo, Japan, in 1998-1999.
According to recent research published in the Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, "A 1998-1999 outbreak of measles in Kawasaki City was studied to provide an up-to-date epidemiological understanding of the disease in Japan."
"Twenty-one of the 69 total patients (30.4%) seen at the hospital were under 1 year of age," reported Natsuki Nakajima and collaborators at St. Marianna University in Japan. "None of the 69 patients had received measles vaccine. Forty-three out of 50 nasopharyngeal swabs subjected to polymerase chain reaction assay (86%) were positive for the hemagglutinin (H) gene. The measles strain isolated from patients was classified as a D3 genotype. Such outbreaks are important epidemiologically, and these findings shed ...