Volume 7, Issue 2, April – June 2016

Surveillance report

Tuberculosis in foreign students in Japan, 2010–2014: a comparison with the notification rates in their countries of origin
Masaki Ota, Kazuhiro Uchimura, Seiya Kato
Full HTML English PDF 中文PDF
Profile of tuberculosis among the foreign-born population in Japan, 2007–2014
Lisa Kawatsu, Kazuhiro Uchimura, Kiyohiko Izumi, Akihiro Ohkado, Nobukatsu Ishikawa
Full HTML English PDF 中文PDF

Risk assessment

Assessment of the risk posed to Singapore by the 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in the Republic of Korea
Emma Xuxiao Zhang, Olivia Seen Huey Oh, Wanhan See, Pream Raj, Lyn James, Jeannie Su Hui Tey
Full HTML English PDF 中文PDF

Original research

External quality assessment of dengue and chikungunya diagnostics in the Asia Pacific region, 2015
Li Ting Soh, Raynal C Squires, Li Kiang Tan, Kwoon Yong Pok, HuiTing Yang, Christina Liew, Aparna Singh Shah, John Aaskov, Sazaly Abubakar, Futoshi Hasebe, Lee Ching Ng, Frank Konings
Full HTML English PDF 中文PDF
Prevalence of resistance to second-line tuberculosis drug among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Viet Nam, 2011
Hoa Binh Nguyen, Nhung Viet Nguyen, Huong Thi Giang Tran, Hai Viet Nguyen, Quyen Thi Tu Bui
Full HTML English PDF 中文PDF

Regional Analysis

Epidemiology and control of tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: update with 2013 case notification data
Tom Hiatt, Nobuyuki Nishikiori
Full HTML English PDF 中文PDF