Publications by authors named "Kenji Hirae"
Objectives: To elucidate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the epidemiology of other infectious diseases.
Design: We investigated the epidemiology of 36 communicable diseases during 2015-2021 in Japan and compared the number of cases in each disease between the prepandemic (2015-2019) and intrapandemic (2020-2021) periods. Relationships between the incidence of the infectious diseases and the COVID-19 pandemic were also investigated.