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    Pulmonary phagocyte-derived NPY controls the pathology of severe influenza virus infection

    Crosstalk between the autonomic nervous system and the immune system by means of the sympathetic and parasympathetic pathways is a critical process in host defence. Activation of the sympathetic nervous system...

    Seiki Fujiwara, Midori Hoshizaki, Yu Ichida, Dennis Lex in Nature Microbiology (2019)

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    Nationwide surveillance of bacterial respiratory pathogens conducted by the Surveillance Committee of Japanese Society of Chemotherapy, Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases, and Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology in 2009: general view of the pathogens’ antibacterial susceptibility

    For the purpose of nationwide surveillance of antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial respiratory pathogens from patients in Japan, the Japanese Society of Chemotherapy (JSC) started a survey in 2006. From 2...

    Akira Watanabe, Katsunori Yanagihara in Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy (2012)

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    Nationwide surveillance of bacterial respiratory pathogens conducted by the Japanese Society of Chemotherapy in 2008: general view of the pathogens’ antibacterial susceptibility

    For the purpose of nationwide surveillance of the antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial respiratory pathogens collected from patients in Japan, the Japanese Society of Chemotherapy conducted a third year o...

    Yoshihito Niki, Hideaki Hanaki, Tetsuya Matsumoto in Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy (2011)

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    Rapidly progressive fatal pneumococcal sepsis in adults: a report of two cases

    We report two cases of a rapidly progressive fatal overwhelming pneumococcal infection. Patient 1 was a 67-year-old man with a 24-h history of fever and malaise and was transferred to our department. He was se...

    Yasushi Iinuma, Yasuo Hirose, Toshiharu Tanaka in Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy (2007)