Kiyosu Taniguchi

TL;DR: BioCaster is an ontology-based text mining system for detecting and tracking the distribution of infectious disease outbreaks from linguistic signals on the Web and consists of four main stages: topic classification, named entity recognition (NER), disease/location detection and event recognition.

TL;DR: During 1999 to 2001, microbiologic tests were conducted on a liquid environmental sample originally collected during the 1993 incident, which found all isolates to be identical to a strain used in Japan to vaccinate animals against anthrax, which was consistent with Aum Shinrikyo members’ testimony about the strain source.

TL;DR: A high seroconversion rate among sentinel pigs was recorded every year, which suggests the presence of JE virus-infected mosquitoes during the summer in most areas of Japan, including the northern districts where no JE cases were reported from 1982 to 2004.

TL;DR: The early stage of epidemics of some infectious diseases might be detectable using this simple method for detecting an epidemic in its early stage using a simple method in Japan in 1993-1997.

TL;DR: Age-specific contact patterns in Japan are age and gender specific, and can help inform the parameterisation of mathematical models of disease transmission and the design of public health policies, to control disease transmission.