感染症サーベイランス情報における溶連菌感染症の患者発生情報の精度に関する研究 (第1報)

Abstract

As the first step to examine the incidences of streptococcal infectious diseases for the nationwide and the regional surveillance information of infectious diseases in Japan, the number of patients with streptococcal infectious diseases per year or week and the hospitals in the surveillance systems in 47 prefectures from 1982 to 1987 were compared. It was found to have the tendency that the numbers of the patients were comparatively more in Hokkaido, Tohoku, partial areas of Kyushu and Shikoku than in other regions, and more in rural areas than in urban areas. Because of the deviation from the tendency, however, it was also suggested that the information of the disease in some prefectures might be poor. Although ratios of no. of the patients against no. of patients with exanthema subitum in 16 prefectures, respectively, were calculated and compared, it was be not enough to analyze the difference among the incidences of streptococcal infectious diseases in these prefectures.