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Volume 5(7);  July 2008
Guidelines and Guidance
Immunological Outcomes of New Tuberculosis Vaccine Trials: WHO Panel Recommendations
Willem A Hanekom, Hazel M Dockrell, Tom H. M Ottenhoff, T. Mark Doherty, Helen Fletcher, Helen McShane, Frank F Weichold, Dan F Hoft, Shreemanta K Parida, and Uli J Fruth
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e145. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050145.
PMCID: PMC2443198
Scaling Up Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Prioritized Research Agenda
Frank G. J Cobelens, Einar Heldal, Michael E Kimerling, Carole D Mitnick, Laura J Podewils, Rajeswari Ramachandran, Hans L Rieder, Karin Weyer, Matteo Zignol, and on behalf of the Working Group on MDR-TB of the Stop TB Partnership
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e150. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050150.
PMCID: PMC2443187
Editorial
Next Stop, Don't Block the Doors: Opening Up Access to Clinical Trials Results
The PLoS Medicine Editors
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e160. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050160.
PMCID: PMC2459205
Perspectives
Organophosphate Poisoning–Induced Intermediate Syndrome: Can Electrophysiological Changes Help Predict Outcome?
Cynthia K Aaron
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e154. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050154.
PMCID: PMC2459206
Divergent Goals and Commitments in Global Malaria Intervention
Anthony E Kiszewski
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e159. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050159.
PMCID: PMC2488195
The Effects of International Monetary Fund Loans on Health Outcomes
Megan Murray and Gary King
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e162. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050162.
PMCID: PMC2488198
Transmitted Minority Drug-Resistant HIV Variants: A New Epidemic?
Steven G Deeks
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e164. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050164.
PMCID: PMC2488200
Health in Action
Surveillance Sans Frontières: Internet-Based Emerging Infectious Disease Intelligence and the HealthMap Project
John S Brownstein, Clark C Freifeld, Ben Y Reis, and Kenneth D Mandl
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e151. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050151.
PMCID: PMC2443186
Policy Forum
Documenting Mortality in Crises: What Keeps Us from Doing Better
Francesco Checchi and Les Roberts
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e146. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050146.
PMCID: PMC2443202
Research in Translation
Evidence-Based Tuberculosis Diagnosis
Madhukar Pai, Andrew Ramsay, and Richard O'Brien
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e156. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050156.
PMCID: PMC2488193
Learning Forum
A 58-Year-Old Woman with Abdominal Symptoms and Elevated C-Reactive Protein
Marie-Louise Daly, David J Cartwright, Paul J Lehner, and Babak Javid
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e149. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050149.
PMCID: PMC2443201
Research Articles
Toward a Global View of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, and Cocaine Use: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
Louisa Degenhardt, Wai-Tat Chiu, Nancy Sampson, Ronald C Kessler, James C Anthony, Matthias Angermeyer, Ronny Bruffaerts, Giovanni de Girolamo, Oye Gureje, Yueqin Huang, Aimee Karam, Stanislav Kostyuchenko, Jean Pierre Lepine, Maria Elena Medina Mora, Yehuda Neumark, J. Hans Ormel, Alejandra Pinto-Meza, José Posada-Villa, Dan J Stein, Tadashi Takeshima, and J. Elisabeth Wells
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e141. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050141.
PMCID: PMC2443200
International Funding for Malaria Control in Relation to Populations at Risk of Stable Plasmodium falciparum Transmission
Robert W Snow, Carlos A Guerra, Juliette J Mutheu, and Simon I Hay
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e142. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050142.
PMCID: PMC2488181
International Monetary Fund Programs and Tuberculosis Outcomes in Post-Communist Countries
David Stuckler, Lawrence P King, and Sanjay Basu
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e143. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050143.
PMCID: PMC2488179
The Effect of Delaying Childbirth on Primary Cesarean Section Rates
Gordon C. S Smith, Yolande Cordeaux, Ian R White, Dharmintra Pasupathy, Hannah Missfelder-Lobos, Jill P Pell, D. Stephen Charnock-Jones, and Michael Fleming
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e144. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050144.
PMCID: PMC2443199
The Spectrum of Intermediate Syndrome Following Acute Organophosphate Poisoning: A Prospective Cohort Study from Sri Lanka
Pradeepa Jayawardane, Andrew H Dawson, Vajira Weerasinghe, Lakshman Karalliedde, Nicholas A Buckley, and Nimal Senanayake
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e147. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050147.
PMCID: PMC2459203
Public-Health and Individual Approaches to Antiretroviral Therapy: Township South Africa and Switzerland Compared
Olivia Keiser, Catherine Orrell, Matthias Egger, Robin Wood, Martin W. G Brinkhof, Hansjakob Furrer, Gilles van Cutsem, Bruno Ledergerber, Andrew Boulle, and for the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS) and the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS in Southern Africa (IeDEA-SA)
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e148. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050148.
PMCID: PMC2443185
Diabetes Mellitus Increases the Risk of Active Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review of 13 Observational Studies
Christie Y Jeon and Megan B Murray
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e152. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050152.
PMCID: PMC2459204
Incidence and Clinical Characteristics of Group A Rotavirus Infections among Children Admitted to Hospital in Kilifi, Kenya
D. James Nokes, John Abwao, Allan Pamba, Ina Peenze, John Dewar, J. Kamino Maghenda, Hellen Gatakaa, Evasius Bauni, J. Anthony G Scott, Kathryn Maitland, and Thomas N Williams
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e153. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050153.
PMCID: PMC2488191
Minority HIV-1 Drug Resistance Mutations Are Present in Antiretroviral Treatment–Naïve Populations and Associate with Reduced Treatment Efficacy
Jeffrey A Johnson, Jin-Fen Li, Xierong Wei, Jonathan Lipscomb, David Irlbeck, Charles Craig, Amanda Smith, Diane E Bennett, Michael Monsour, Paul Sandstrom, E. Randall Lanier, and Walid Heneine
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e158. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050158.
PMCID: PMC2488194
Neonatal Thyroid Function in Seveso 25 Years after Maternal Exposure to Dioxin
Andrea Baccarelli, Sara M Giacomini, Carlo Corbetta, Maria Teresa Landi, Matteo Bonzini, Dario Consonni, Paolo Grillo, Donald G Patterson, Jr., Angela C Pesatori, and Pier Alberto Bertazzi
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e161. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050161.
PMCID: PMC2488197
Correction
Correction: Characterizing the Epidemiological Transition in Mexico: National and Subnational Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors
Gretchen Stevens, Rodrigo H Dias, Kevin J. A Thomas, Juan A Rivera, Natalie Carvalho, Simón Barquera, Kenneth Hill, and Majid Ezzati
PLoS Med. 2008 July; 5(7): e163. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050163.
PMCID: PMC2488199
Corrects: Gretchen Stevens, et al. Characterizing the Epidemiological Transition in Mexico: National and Subnational Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors. PLoS Med. 2008 June; 5(6): e125.
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