Mortality of very low birth weight infants varies widely between regions and countries; however, the variation in morbidities after adjusting for confounders has not been adequately studied.

Composite outcome of mortality or short-term morbidity for very low birth weight infants was lower in Japan than in Canada. However, marked variations in mortality and individual morbidity exist, revealing areas for improvement in each country. (Read the full article)

The off-label use of third generation cephalosporin (3GC) during in ovo vaccination or vaccination of newly hatched chicks, was a common practice worldwide. CMY-2-producing Escherichia coli have been disseminated among broiler production. The objectives of this study were to determine the epidemiological linkage of bla_CMY-2-positive plasmids among broilers both within and outside Japan because grandparent stock and parent stock were imported in Japan. We examined the whole genome sequences of 132 3GC-resistant E. coli isolates collected from healthy broilers during 2002-2014. The predominant 3GC-resistance gene was bla_CMY-2, which was detected in the plasmids of 87 (65.9%) isolates. The main plasmid replicon types were IncI1-I (n=21; 24.1%), IncI (n=12; 13.8%), IncB/O/K/Z (n=28; 32.2%), and IncC (n=22; 25.3%). Those plasmids were subjected to gene clustering and network analyses and plasmid multi-locus sequence typing (pMLST). The chromosomal DNA of isolates was subjected to MLST and single nucleotide variant (SNV)-based phylogenetic analysis.

MLST and SNV-based phylogenetic analysis revealed high diversity of E. coli isolates. ST429 harboring bla_CMY-2-positive IncB/O/K/Z was closely related to isolates from broiler in Germany harboring bla_CMY-2-positive IncB/O/K/Z. pST55-IncI and pST12-IncI1-I and pST3-IncC were prevalent in western Japan. pST12-IncI1-I and pST3-IncC were closely related to those detected in E. coli isolates from chicken in American continent, whereas 26 IncB/O/K/Z were related to those in Europe. These data will be useful to reveal the whole picture of transmission of CMY-2-producing bacteria in and out of Japan.

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1 Seychellois Rupee = 6.2136 Japanese Yen

1 Trinidad and Tobago Dollar = 15.7861 Japanese Yen

1 Swedish Krona = 10.9166 Japanese Yen

1 Slovak Koruna = 4.8039 Japanese Yen

1 Serbian Dinar = 0.9836 Japanese Yen

1 Polish Zloty = 25.3704 Japanese Yen

1 Qatari Rial = 29.2982 Japanese Yen

1 Indian Rupee = 1.4129 Japanese Yen

1 Pakistani Rupee = 0.6682 Japanese Yen

1 Sierra Leonean Leone = 0.0108 Japanese Yen

1 New Taiwan Dollar = 3.5729 Japanese Yen

1 Thai Baht = 3.3315 Japanese Yen

1 Turkish Lira = 15.0479 Japanese Yen

1 Singapore Dollar = 75.5121 Japanese Yen

1 Mauritian Rupee = 2.6863 Japanese Yen

1 Nepalese Rupee = 0.8821 Japanese Yen

1 Bangladeshi Taka = 1.2551 Japanese Yen

1 Moldovan Leu = 5.9825 Japanese Yen

1 Colombian Peso = 0.0274 Japanese Yen

1 Uruguayan Peso = 2.4728 Japanese Yen

1 Uzbekistan Som = 0.0106 Japanese Yen

1 Russian Ruble = 1.4533 Japanese Yen

1 Iraqi Dinar = 0.0896 Japanese Yen

1 Cayman Islands Dollar = 127.977 Japanese Yen

1 Swiss Franc = 109.864 Japanese Yen

1 CFA Franc BCEAO = 0.1763 Japanese Yen

1 Vietnamese Dong = 0.0046 Japanese Yen

1 Macedonian Denar = 1.8772 Japanese Yen

1 Zambian Kwacha = 0.0206 Japanese Yen

1 South Korean Won = 0.0875 Japanese Yen

1 Jordanian Dinar = 150.3529 Japanese Yen

1 Lebanese Pound = 0.0705 Japanese Yen

1 Bahraini Dinar = 282.0781 Japanese Yen

1 Chilean Peso = 0.1292 Japanese Yen

1 Maldivian Rufiyaa = 6.8807 Japanese Yen

1 Malaysian Ringgit = 24.6135 Japanese Yen