9 results match your criteria: "Kobe City Public Health Center[Affiliation]"
Infect Genet Evol
October 2023
Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Kiyose City, Tokyo, Japan; Basic Mycobacteriosis, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki, Japan.
Currently, tuberculosis (TB) in Japan is highly prevalent among elderly patients who were born during a time when TB was highly prevalent. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) lineage 2 (L2) is the predominant strain in the country. Moreover, the proportion of foreign-born patients with TB has been increasing.
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April 2018
1 Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan .
Sci Rep
December 2016
Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 6500017, Japan.
Gestational age (GA) is thought to affect height growth in small-for-gestational age (SGA) children. However, the GA-specific trajectories in body mass index (BMI) and early appearances of adiposity rebound (AR) have not been fully investigated in a cohort of Japanese SGA children. A longitudinal cohort study was conducted with 1063 SGA children born in Kobe, Japan, with sufficient records from birth to 3 years of age.
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May 2016
Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
December 2014
Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
The present cohort study examined how lifestyle, household environment, and caries activity test score of Japanese children at age 1.5 years affected their dental caries incidence at age 3. Inclusion criteria were 1.
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March 2015
Departments of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the incidence of short stature at 3 years of age in a Japanese cohort of late preterm infants who were born at 34-36 weeks' gestational age (GA). We compared these late preterm infants with term infants (37-41 weeks' GA), and evaluated the effect of birth weight on the incidence of short stature.
Methods: A longitudinal population-based study of 26 970 neonates who were born between 34 weeks' and 41 weeks' GA in 2006-2008 was conducted in Kobe, Japan.
Objectives: To examine the applicability of data on polio virus detection in stool by the Pathogen Surveillance System of Japan (PSSJ) for the evaluation of polio virus retention status in a regional community after oral polio vaccination (OPV).
Methods: (1) Data for the city of Kobe (part of the PSSJ data): Cases of polio virus detection in stool reported to Kobe City Public Health Center from January 1, 2000 to June 30, 2010 were examined regarding time duration from vaccination to detection as well as age and gender. (2) PSSJ data: Cases of polio virus detection in stool reported to PSSJ from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2010 were examined regarding the serological types of the virus as well as age and gender.
Background: QuantiFERON TB-Gold (QFT) has recently been developed as a new method for diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) infection. To evaluate the usefulness of QFT, we analyzed the relationship between QFT and the closeness of contact with a source of infection, in comparison with that of the tuberculin skin test (TST).
Methods: Male (n=322) and female (n=340) subjects (4-75 years old) who had contact with an index case received QFT and TST.