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International Editors—Update

• Emerging Infectious Disease Update in Brazil, H. Momen 

Perspectives

• Risk for Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Diseases in Central and South America, G.A. Schmunis, F. Zicker, F. Pinheiro, D. Brandling-Bennett 
• Calicivirus Emergence from Ocean Reservoirs: Zoonotic and Interspecies Movements, A.W. Smith, D.E. Skilling, N. Cherry, J.H. Mead, D.O. Matson 
• Outbreak Investigations—A Perspective, A.L. Reingold

Synopses

• Genetic Diversity of Wild-Type Measles Viruses: Implications for Global Measles Elimination Programs, W.J. Bellini and P.A. Rota
• Diversity among Multidrug-Resistant Enterococci, B.E. Murray
• Proteases of Malaria Parasites: New Targets for Chemotherapy, P.J. Rosenthal 
• Zoonotic Tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis in Developing Countries, O. Cosivi, J.M. Grange, C.J. Daborn, M.C. Raviglione, T. Fujikura, D. Cousins, R.A. Robinson, H.F.A.K. Huchzermeyer, I. de Kantor, F.-X. Meslin 
• What Makes Cryptococcus neoformans a Pathogen?, K.L. Buchanan and J.W. Murphy

Dispatches

• Hantavirus Infections in Children in Argentina, N.C. Pini, A. Resa, G. Del Jesus Laime, G. Lecot, T.G. Ksiazek, S. Levis, D.A. Enria 
• Reemergence of Dengue in Cuba: A 1997 Epidemic in Santiago de Cuba, G. Kourí, M.G. Guzmán, L. Valdés, I. Carbonel, D. del Rosario, S. Vazquez, J. Laferté, J. Delgado, M.V. Cabrera 
• Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in a Chilean Patient with Recent Travel in Bolivia, R. Espinoza, P. Vial, L.M. Noriega, A. Johnson, S.T. Nichol, P.E. Rollin, R. Wells, S. Zaki, E. Reynolds, T.G. Ksiazek 
• Prevalence of Tick-Borne Pathogens in Ixodes scapularis in a Rural New Jersey County, S. Varde, J. Beckley, I. Schwartz 
• Plague, A Reemerging Disease in Madagascar, S. Chanteau, L. Ratsifasoamanana, B. Rasoamanana, L. Rahalison, J. Randriambelosoa, J. Roux, D. Rabeson 
• Bayou Virus-Associated Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Eastern Texas: Identification of the Rice Rat, Oryzomys palustris, as Reservoir Host, N. Torrez-Martinez, M. Bharadwaj, D. Goade, J. Delury, P. Moran, B. Hicks, B. Nix, J.L. Davis, B. Hjelle 
• Laboratory Survey of Drug-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in New York City, 1993-1995, R. Heffernan, K. Henning, A. Labowitz, A. Hjelte, M. Layton 
• B-virus from Pet Macaque Monkeys: An Emerging Infectious Disease Threat in the United States? S.R. Ostrowski, M.J. Leslie, T. Parrott, S. Abelt, P.E. Piercy 

Letters

• Infectious Diseases and Mental Illness: Is There a Link?, E. McSweegan
• Mycobacterium nonchromogenicum Bacteremia in an AIDS Patient, J. Mayo, J. Collazos, and E. Martínez 
• Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infection in Colombia, S. Mattar and E. Vásquez
• Autofluorescence and the Detection of Cyclospora Oocysts, O.G.W. Berlin, J.B. Peter, C. Gagne, C.N. Conteas, L.R. Ash 
• Partnerships for Detecting Emerging Infectious Diseases: Nepal and Global Influenza Surveillance, J.M. Gambel, D.R. Shlim, L.C. Canas, N.J. Cox, H.L. Regnery, R.M. Scott, D.W. Vaughn, C.H. Hoke Jr.,and P.W. Kelley 
• HIV-2 Infection and HIV-1/HIV-2 Dual Reactivity in Patients With and Without AIDS-Related Symptoms in Gabon, C.Tevi-Benissan, M. Okome, M. Makuwa, M.N. Nkoume, J. Lansoud-Soukate, A. Georges, M-C. Georges-Courbot, and L. Belec
• Q Fever in French Guiana: New Trends, F. Pfaff, A. François, D. Hommel, I. Jeanne, J. Margery, G. Guillot, Y. Couratte-Arnaude, A. Hulin, and A. Talarmin 
• Ixodes dammini: A Junior Synonym for Ixodes scapularis, M. Sanders 
• The Name Ixodes dammini Epidemiologically Justified, S. R. Telford III
• Ebola/Athens revisited, P.E. Olson, A.S. Benenson, and E.N. Genovese

News and Notes

• The Hot Zone-1997: Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases
• International Meeting on Borreliosis, Prague, Czech Republic
• Workshop on Climate Change and Vector-Borne and Other Infectious Diseases
• The Fourth International Conference on HFRS and Hantaviruses
• Third International Congress on Tropical Neurology
• International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases