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Volume 3(8);  August 2006
Correspondence
Borderline Thrombocytopenia or Mild Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura?
Jacques Zimmer, François Hentges, and Emmanuel Andres
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e362. Published online 2006 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030362.
PMCID: PMC1564286
Authors' Response to Zimmer et al
Roberto Stasi, Sergio Amadori, John Osborn, Adrian Newland, and Drew Provan
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e365. Published online 2006 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030365.
PMCID: PMC1564287
Schizophrenia Adoption Studies
Jonathan Leo
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e366. Published online 2006 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030366.
PMCID: PMC1564288
Telemedicine Complements Effective Health-Care Delivery but Is Not a Panacea
Rajiv Sarin
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e367. Published online 2006 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030367.
PMCID: PMC1564289
Further Advantages of a Unique Author Identification Number
Etienne Joly
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e368. Published online 2006 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030368.
PMCID: PMC1564290
Discussion Required for Correct Interpretation
Radek Bukowski, Gary D. V Hankins, George R Saade, and Steve Thornton
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e369. Published online 2006 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030369.
PMCID: PMC1564291
Differences in Mitotic Activity May Explain Observed Differences in HIF-1α Response in Cancers and Stroma
Khush Mittal
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e370. Published online 2006 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030370.
PMCID: PMC1564292
Author's Response to Dr. Leo
Patrick Sullivan
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e376. Published online 2006 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030376.
PMCID: PMC1564293
Editorial
How Can Biomedical Journals Help to Tackle Global Poverty?
The PLoS Medicine Editors
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e380. Published online 2006 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030380.
PMCID: PMC1564295
Essay
Health Development versus Medical Relief: The Illusion versus the Irrelevance of Sustainability
Gorik Ooms
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e345. Published online 2006 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030345.
PMCID: PMC1539094
Perspectives
IL-32: An Emerging Player in the Immune Response Network against Tuberculosis?
Manikuntala Kundu and Joyoti Basu
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e274. Published online 2006 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030274.
PMCID: PMC1502156
Developmental Immunotoxicity Testing and Protection of Children's Health
Rodney R Dietert
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e296. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030296.
PMCID: PMC1551911
Thrombosis after Travel
Kenneth J Rothman
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e300. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030300.
PMCID: PMC1555697
Molecular Epidemiology of Leptospirosis in the Amazon
David A Haake
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e302. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030302.
PMCID: PMC1551913
Does Simple “Reassurance” Work in Patients with Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms?
Javier I Escobar
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e313. Published online 2006 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030313.
PMCID: PMC1523378
Neural and Neurobehavioral Dysfunction in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Dean W Beebe
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e323. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030323.
PMCID: PMC1551917
Infectious Diseases, Climate Influences, and Nonstationarity
Bernard Cazelles and Simon Hales
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e328. Published online 2006 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030328.
PMCID: PMC1539090
Metabolic Profiling of Patients with Schizophrenia
Rima Kaddurah-Daouk
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e363. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030363.
PMCID: PMC1551921
Is IL-10 a Good Target to Inhibit Choroidal Neovascularisation in Age-Related Macular Disease?
Sue Lightman and Virginia Calder
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e364. Published online 2006 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030364.
PMCID: PMC1539096
Health in Action
Evaluating Health Research Capacity Building: An Evidence-Based Tool
Imelda Bates, Alex Yaw Osei Akoto, Daniel Ansong, Patrick Karikari, George Bedu-Addo, Julia Critchley, Tsiri Agbenyega, and Anthony Nsiah-Asare
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e299. Published online 2006 July 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030299.
PMCID: PMC1502158
Policy Forum
Regulating the Market in Human Research Participants
Trudo Lemmens and Paul B Miller
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e330. Published online 2006 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030330.
PMCID: PMC1523377
How Do Intellectual Property Law and International Trade Agreements Affect Access to Antiretroviral Therapy?
Michael Westerhaus and Arachu Castro
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e332. Published online 2006 August 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030332.
PMCID: PMC1526770
Research in Translation
A Proposed Classification of the Immunological Diseases
Dennis McGonagle and Michael F McDermott
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e297. Published online 2006 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030297.
PMCID: PMC1564298
Learning Forum
A 26-Year-Old Man with Sternoclavicular Arthritis
Christian Gutierrez Ruiz, J. Jaime Miranda, and Georgios Pappas
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e293. Published online 2006 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030293.
PMCID: PMC1564284
Case Report
Recurrent Hypoglycaemia in a Patient with Metastatic Pancreatic Carcinoma
Ronald C. W Ma, Raymond S. K Lo, Morris H. L Tai, Juliana C. N Chan, Chun Chung Chow, and Jean L. F Woo
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e331. Published online 2006 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030331.
PMCID: PMC1564285
Research Articles
Aberrant Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis of Schistosoma mansoni Glycoproteins on Host Lipoproteins
Hein Sprong, Monika Suchanek, Suzanne M van Dijk, Alexandra van Remoortere, Judith Klumperman, Diana Avram, Joke van der Linden, Jeanette H. W Leusen, Jaap J van Hellemond, and Christoph Thiele
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e253. Published online 2006 July 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030253.
PMCID: PMC1502155
Abnormal Cortical Development after Premature Birth Shown by Altered Allometric Scaling of Brain Growth
Olga Kapellou, Serena J Counsell, Nigel Kennea, Leigh Dyet, Nadeem Saeed, Jaroslav Stark, Elia Maalouf, Philip Duggan, Morenike Ajayi-Obe, Jo Hajnal, Joanna M Allsop, James Boardman, Mary A Rutherford, Frances Cowan, and A. David Edwards
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e265. Published online 2006 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030265.
PMCID: PMC1523379
Conjunctival FOXP3 Expression in Trachoma: Do Regulatory T Cells Have a Role in Human Ocular Chlamydia trachomatis Infection?
Nkoyo Faal, Robin L Bailey, David Jeffries, Hassan Joof, Isatou Sarr, Mass Laye, David C. W Mabey, and Martin J Holland
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e266. Published online 2006 August 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030266.
PMCID: PMC1526769
Core Verbal Autopsy Procedures with Comparative Validation Results from Two Countries
Philip W Setel, Chalapati Rao, Yusuf Hemed, David R Whiting, Gonghuan Yang, Daniel Chandramohan, K. G. M. M Alberti, and Alan D Lopez
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e268. Published online 2006 July 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030268.
PMCID: PMC1502154
Why Reassurance Fails in Patients with Unexplained Symptoms—An Experimental Investigation of Remembered Probabilities
Winfried Rief, Andrea Maren Heitmüller, Katja Reisberg, and Heinz Rüddel
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e269. Published online 2006 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030269.
PMCID: PMC1523375
Frequency of Adverse Events after Vaccination with Different Vaccinia Strains
Mirjam Kretzschmar, Jacco Wallinga, Peter Teunis, Shuqin Xing, and Rafael Mikolajczyk
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e272. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030272.
PMCID: PMC1551910
Prospects for Advancing Tuberculosis Control Efforts through Novel Therapies
Joshua A Salomon, James O Lloyd-Smith, Wayne M Getz, Stephen Resch, María S Sánchez, Travis C Porco, and Martien W Borgdorff
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e273. Published online 2006 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030273.
PMCID: PMC1523376
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Induces Interleukin-32 Production through a Caspase- 1/IL-18/Interferon-γ-Dependent Mechanism
Mihai G Netea, Tania Azam, Eli C Lewis, Leo A. B Joosten, Maorong Wang, Dennis Langenberg, Xianzhong Meng, Edward D Chan, Do-Young Yoon, Tom Ottenhoff, Soo-Hyun Kim, and Charles A Dinarello
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e277. Published online 2006 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030277.
PMCID: PMC1539091
Climate Cycles and Forecasts of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, a Nonstationary Vector-Borne Disease
Luis Fernando Chaves and Mercedes Pascual
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e295. Published online 2006 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030295.
PMCID: PMC1539092
Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea Associates with Neuropsychological Deficits and Neuronal Brain Injury
Ann C Halbower, Mahaveer Degaonkar, Peter B Barker, Christopher J Earley, Carole L Marcus, Philip L Smith, M. Cristine Prahme, and E. Mark Mahone
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e301. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030301.
PMCID: PMC1551912
Travel-Related Venous Thrombosis: Results from a Large Population-Based Case Control Study (MEGA Study)
Suzanne C Cannegieter, Carine J. M Doggen, Hans C van Houwelingen, and Frits R Rosendaal
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e307. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030307.
PMCID: PMC1551914
Determining Risk for Severe Leptospirosis by Molecular Analysis of Environmental Surface Waters for Pathogenic Leptospira
Christian A Ganoza, Michael A Matthias, Devon Collins-Richards, Kimberly C Brouwer, Calaveras B Cunningham, Eddy R Segura, Robert H Gilman, Eduardo Gotuzzo, and Joseph M Vinetz
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e308. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030308.
PMCID: PMC1551915
Macrophages Inhibit Neovascularization in a Murine Model of Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Rajendra S Apte, Jennifer Richter, John Herndon, and Thomas A Ferguson
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e310. Published online 2006 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030310.
PMCID: PMC1539093
Reduced Antibody Responses to Vaccinations in Children Exposed to Polychlorinated Biphenyls
Carsten Heilmann, Philippe Grandjean, Pál Weihe, Flemming Nielsen, and Esben Budtz-Jørgensen
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e311. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030311.
PMCID: PMC1551916
Creating and Validating an Algorithm to Measure AIDS Mortality in the Adult Population using Verbal Autopsy
Ben A Lopman, Ruanne V Barnabas, J. Ties Boerma, Godwin Chawira, Kezia Gaitskell, Tara Harrop, Peter Mason, Christl A Donnelly, Geoff P Garnett, Constance Nyamukapa, and Simon Gregson
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e312. Published online 2006 August 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030312.
PMCID: PMC1526767
Serious Shortcomings in the Management of Children with Anaphylaxis in Scottish Schools
Kirsty E Rankin and Aziz Sheikh
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e326. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030326.
PMCID: PMC1551918
Metabolic Profiling of CSF: Evidence That Early Intervention May Impact on Disease Progression and Outcome in Schizophrenia
Elaine Holmes, Tsz M Tsang, Jeffrey T.-J Huang, F. Markus Leweke, Dagmar Koethe, Christoph W Gerth, Brit M Nolden, Sonja Gross, Daniela Schreiber, Jeremy K Nicholson, and Sabine Bahn
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e327. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030327.
PMCID: PMC1551919
Statins in the Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure: A Systematic Review
Pim van der Harst, Adriaan A Voors, Wiek H van Gilst, Michael Böhm, and Dirk J van Veldhuisen
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e333. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030333.
PMCID: PMC1551909
Inflammatory Cytokines as Risk Factors for a First Venous Thrombosis: A Prospective Population-Based Study
Sverre C Christiansen, Inger Anne Næss, Suzanne C Cannegieter, Jens Hammerstrøm, Frits R Rosendaal, and Pieter H Reitsma
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e334. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030334.
PMCID: PMC1551920
Corrections
Correction: Manslaughter by Fake Artesunate in Asia—Will Africa Be Next?
Paul N Newton, Rose McGready, Facundo Fernandez, Michael D Green, Manuela Sunjio, Carinne Bruneton, Souly Phanouvong, Pascal Millet, Christopher J. M Whitty, Ambrose O Talisuna, Stephane Proux, Eva Maria Christophel, Grace Malenga, Pratap Singhasivanon, Kalifa Bojang, Harparkash Kaur, Kevin Palmer, Nicholas P. J Day, Brian M Greenwood, François Nosten, and Nicholas J White
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e324. Published online 2006 August 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030324.
PMCID: PMC1523374
Corrects: Paul N Newton, et al. Manslaughter by Fake Artesunate in Asia—Will Africa Be Next? PLoS Med. 2006 June; 3(6): e197.
Correction: Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome Caused by Streptococcus suis Serotype 2
Jiaqi Tang, Changjun Wang, Youjun Feng, Weizhong Yang, Huaidong Song, Zhihai Chen, Hongjie Yu, Xiuzhen Pan, Xiaojun Zhou, Huaru Wang, Bo Wu, Haili Wang, Huamei Zhao, Ying Lin, Jianhua Yue, Zhenqiang Wu, Xiaowei He, Feng Gao, Abdul Hamid Khan, Jian Wang, Guo-Ping Zhao, Yu Wang, Xiaoning Wang, Zhu Chen, and George F Gao
PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e377. Published online 2006 August 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030377.
PMCID: PMC1564294
Corrects: Jiaqi Tang, et al. Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome Caused by Streptococcus suis Serotype 2 . PLoS Med. 2006 May; 3(5): e151.
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