Volume 4, Issue 1, January to March 2013
Tuberculosis
Editorial
Using tuberculosis surveillance data for informed programmatic decision-making
Nobuyuki Nishikiori and Fukushi Morishita
Surveillance Report
Strengthened tuberculosis control programme and trend of multidrug resistant tuberculosis rate in Osaka City, Japan
Akira Shimouchi, Akihiro Ohkado, Kenji Matsumoto, Jun Komukai, Hideki Yoshida and Nobukatsu Ishikawa
Characteristics and treatment outcomes of tuberculosis cases by risk groups, Japan, 2007–2010
Kazuhiro Uchimura, Jintana Ngamvithayapong-Yanai, Lisa Kawatsu, Akihiro Ohkado, Takashi Yoshiyama, Akira Shimouchi, Kunihiko Ito and Nobukatsu Ishikawa
Original Research
Do transportation subsidies and living allowances improve tuberculosis control outcomes among internal migrants in urban Shanghai, China?
Hui Lu, Fei Yan, Wei Wang, Laiwa Wu, Weiping Ma, Jing Chen, Xin Shen and Jian Mei
The association between household poverty rates and tuberculosis case notification rates in Cambodia, 2010
Man Kai Wong, Rajendra-Prasad Yadav, Nobuyuku Nishikiori and Mao Tan Eang
Lessons from the Field
Engaging women volunteers of high socioeconomic status in supporting socioeconomically disadvantaged tuberculosis patients in Chiang Rai, Thailand
Jintana Ngamvithayapong-Yanai, Sarmwai Luangjina, Supalert Nedsuwan, Pacharee Kantipong, Jirapohn Wongyai and Nobukatsu Ishikawa
Letter to the Editor
Bacille-Calmette-Guérin vaccine-associated suppurative lymphadenitis in Hong Kong (China), 2004 to 2012
Tsz-sum Lam, Yiu-Hong Leung, Hoi-ling Tsang, Kin-wing Choi, Tin-yau Wong, Man-ha Wong and Shuk-kwan Chuang
Other topic
Original Research
Typhoid fever: hurdles to adequate hand washing for disease prevention among the population of a peri-urban informal settlement in Fiji
James Greenwell, Judith McCool, Jacob Kool and Mosese Salusalu
Outbreak Investigation Report
Emergence of chikungunya in Moonlapamok and Khong Districts, Champassak Province, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, May to September 2012
Chanthavy Soulaphy, Phouthone Souliphone, Khonesavanh Phanthavong, Darouny Phonekeo, Sonesavanh Phimmasine, Bouaphan Khamphaphongphane,aViengsavanh Kitthiphong and Hannah C Lewis
Lessons from the Field
Needs for disaster medicine: lessons from the field of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Hiroto Ushizawa, Alice Ruth Foxwell, Steven Bice, Tamano Matsui, Yutaka Ueki, Naoki Tosaka, Tomohisa Shoko, Junichi Aiboshi and Yasuhiro Otomo
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