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Vol. 8, No. 12
December 2002
Volume 8, Number 12 — December 2002



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Perspectives

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 Outpatient Antibiotic Use and Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Pneumococci: A Sociocultural Perspective, S. Harbarth
 Identifying Reservoirs of Infection: A Conceptual and Practical Challenge, D.T. Haydon
 Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in Infants: Research Opportunities Ignored, S.B. Halstead
 Role of the Domestic Chicken (Gallus gallus) in the Epidemiology of Urban Visceral Leishmaniasis in Brazil, B. Alexander


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 Antimicrobial Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae, Taiwan, P.-R. Hsueh

Research

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 First Isolation of West Nile virus from a Patient with Encephalitis in the United States, C. Huang
 Vector Competence of California Mosquitoes for West Nile virus, L.B. Goddard
 Killed Virus Vaccine, Live Attenuated Chimeric Virus Vaccine, and Passive Immunization with Immune Serum for Prevention of West Nile virus Encephalitis in Hamster Model, R.B. Tesh
 Induction of Inflammation by West Nile virus Capsid through the Caspase-9 Apoptotic Pathway, Joo-Sung Yang
 West Nile virus Epidemic in Horses, Tuscany Region, Italy, G.L. Autorino
 Mass Vaccination Campaign Following Community Outbreak of Meningococcal Disease, G. Krause
 Meteorologic Influences on Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in the Highland Tea Estates of Kericho, Western Kenya, G.D. Shanks
 Antimicrobial Resistance of Escherichia coli O26, O103, O111, O128, and O145 from Animals and Humans, C.M. Schroeder
 Genetic Analysis of Viruses Associated with Emergence of Rift Valley Fever in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, 2000-01,T. Shoemaker
 Co-feeding Transmission and Its Contribution to the Perpetuation of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia afzelii, D. Richter
 Binary Cumulative Sums and Moving Averages in Nosocomial Infection Cluster Detection, S.M. Brown
 Using Automated Health Plan Data to Assess Infection Risk from Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, R. Platt
 Cross-Sectional Study on Influenza Vaccination, Germany, 1999-2000, S. Rehmet
 Legionnaires' Disease at a Dutch Flower Show: Prognostic Factors and Impact of Therapy, K.D. Lettinga
 Leptospirosis: Skin Wounds and Control Strategies, Thailand, 1999, P. Phraisuwan

Dispatches

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 Isolation and Genetic Characterization of Rift Valley fever virus from Aedes vexans arabiensis, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, B.R. Miller
 Rat-to-Human Transmission of Cowpox Infection, T.F.W. Wolfs
 New Variant of Varicella-Zoster Virus, G.A. Tipples
 Plasmodium ovale Malaria Acquired in Central Spain, J. Cuadros
 Puumala hantavirus Infection in Humans and in the Reservoir Host, Ardennes Region, France, F. Sauvage
 Capsule Switching among C:2b:P1.2,5 Meningococcal Epidemic Strains after Mass Immunization Campaign, Spain, B. Alcalá
 Naturally Occurring Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection in Two Prosimian Primate Species, Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) and Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata), C.V. Williams
 Human Pathogens in Body and Head Lice, P.-E. Fournier
 Increasing Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Campylobacter jejuni, Pennsylvania, USA,1982–2001, I. Nachamkin

Commentary
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 Clinical Failures of Linezolid and Implications for the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, B. Potoski

Another Dimension

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 Ebola-Poe: A Modern-Day Parallel of the Red Death? S.K. Vora


Letters

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 Avian Reservoirs of the Agent of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis?, T.J. Daniels
 Emerging Leptospirosis, North India, R. Chaudhry

Book Review
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 The Microbial Challenge: Human-Microbe Interactions (Robert I. Krasner, author), J.E. McDade


News and Notes

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 Conference Summary
Institute of Medicine Forum on Emerging Infections: Linking Infectious Agents and Chronic Diseases, S. O'Connor
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Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267-1337), St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata (c. 1290)
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Vol. 8, No. 10, Investigation of Bioterrorism-Related Anthrax, United States, 2001: Epidemiologic Findings
   
   
     
   

 

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