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Sentinel surveillance for international Shigella by a quarantine station in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2005

H. TANIGUCHI ,
T. NAKANO ,
Y. KATAYAMA ,
F. HARADA ,
Y. ARAI ,
K. MORI ,
K. HIRATA ,
K. KAMIYA ,
H. MARUYAMA  and
K. SANO
H. TANIGUCHI
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Osaka Medical College, 2-7 Daigaku-machi, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-8686, Japan Quarantine Station, Bldg CIQ, Kansai International Airport, Senshu-Kukounaka, Tajiri-cho, Sennan-gun, 549-0011 Osaka, Japan
T. NAKANO
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Osaka Medical College, 2-7 Daigaku-machi, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-8686, Japan
Y. KATAYAMA
Affiliation:
Quarantine Station, Bldg CIQ, Kansai International Airport, Senshu-Kukounaka, Tajiri-cho, Sennan-gun, 549-0011 Osaka, Japan
F. HARADA
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Osaka Medical College, 2-7 Daigaku-machi, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-8686, Japan
Y. ARAI
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Osaka Medical College, 2-7 Daigaku-machi, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-8686, Japan Quarantine Station, Bldg CIQ, Kansai International Airport, Senshu-Kukounaka, Tajiri-cho, Sennan-gun, 549-0011 Osaka, Japan
K. MORI
Affiliation:
Quarantine Station, Bldg CIQ, Kansai International Airport, Senshu-Kukounaka, Tajiri-cho, Sennan-gun, 549-0011 Osaka, Japan
K. HIRATA
Affiliation:
Quarantine Station, Bldg CIQ, Kansai International Airport, Senshu-Kukounaka, Tajiri-cho, Sennan-gun, 549-0011 Osaka, Japan
K. KAMIYA
Affiliation:
Quarantine Station, Bldg CIQ, Kansai International Airport, Senshu-Kukounaka, Tajiri-cho, Sennan-gun, 549-0011 Osaka, Japan
H. MARUYAMA
Affiliation:
Quarantine Station, Bldg CIQ, Kansai International Airport, Senshu-Kukounaka, Tajiri-cho, Sennan-gun, 549-0011 Osaka, Japan
K. SANO
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Osaka Medical College, 2-7 Daigaku-machi, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-8686, Japan
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Abstract

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The Japanese quarantine system monitors incoming passengers to detect imported pathogens at international airports. At one airport, we found that 74% of 13315 travellers returning with diarrhoea had visited only one country before entering Japan. On the basis of our results, we hypothesized that the international distribution and potential source of bacterial strains could be inferred by analysing strains isolated from travellers returning to Japan. In order to demonstrate the potential for this system, we randomly selected five Shigella sonnei strains and examined their restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns. One set of strains appeared to be closely related, while three sets, isolated from travellers who visited different countries were possibly related. These results suggest that international distributions and potential sources of S. sonnei may be inferred by monitoring isolates from passengers arriving at a Japanese quarantine station.

Type
Research Article
Information
Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 133 , Issue 4 , August 2005 , pp. 611 - 615
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press