mSphere (Aug 2021)
Molecular Epidemiology of Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in Japan
- Fuminori Mizukoshi,
- Nobuyuki Kobayashi,
- Fumiko Kirikae,
- Ken Ohta,
- Kazunari Tsuyuguchi,
- Noritaka Yamada,
- Yoshikazu Inoue,
- Masahide Horiba,
- Noriko Kawata,
- Akiko Ichinose,
- Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama,
- Reiko Kiritani,
- Keiji Funatogawa,
- Teruo Kirikae
Affiliations
- Fuminori Mizukoshi
- Tochigi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
- Nobuyuki Kobayashi
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization (NHO) Tokyo National Hospital, Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan
- Fumiko Kirikae
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Ken Ohta
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization (NHO) Tokyo National Hospital, Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan
- Kazunari Tsuyuguchi
- Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center, Sakai, Osaka, Japan
- Noritaka Yamada
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, NHO Higashinagoya National Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Yoshikazu Inoue
- Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center, Sakai, Osaka, Japan
- Masahide Horiba
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, NHO Higashisaitama National Hospital, Hasuda, Saitama, Japan
- Noriko Kawata
- Department of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine, NHO Minami-Okayama Medical Center, Tsukubo, Okayama, Japan
- Akiko Ichinose
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Reiko Kiritani
- Tochigi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
- Keiji Funatogawa
- Tochigi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
- Teruo Kirikae
- ORCiD
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00978-20
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 6,
no. 4
Abstract
The incidence rate of tuberculosis (TB) in Japan was 11.5 per 100,000 of the population in 2019. Of TB patients in Japan, 61.1% were aged >70 years, and 10.7% were born outside Japan, mostly in Asian countries with a high burden of tuberculosis.
