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Volume 6(4);  April 2009
Perspective
Mapping the Spread of Malaria Drug Resistance
Tim Anderson
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000054. Published online 2009 April 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000054.
PMCID: PMC2661254
What Is the Significance of Unrecognized Non-Q-Wave Myocardial Infarction?
Clara Kayei Chow
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000060. Published online 2009 April 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000060.
PMCID: PMC2665890
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The Role of Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Managing Malaria
Zeno Bisoffi, Federico Gobbi, Andrea Angheben, and Jef Van den Ende
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000063. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000063.
PMCID: PMC2667642
Mapping Antibody Epitopes of the Avian H5N1 Influenza Virus
Hui-Ling Yen and J. S. Malik Peiris
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000064. Published online 2009 April 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000064.
PMCID: PMC2665889
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Editorial
A Medical Journal for the World's Health Priorities
The PLoS Medicine Editors
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000072. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000072.
PMCID: PMC2667639
Essay
The Millennium Development Goals Fail Poor Children: The Case for Equity-Adjusted Measures
Daniel D. Reidpath, Chantal M. Morel, Jeffrey W. Mecaskey, and Pascale Allotey
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000062. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000062.
PMCID: PMC2667271
Health in Action
A Compendium of Potential Biomarkers of Pancreatic Cancer
H. C. Harsha, Kumaran Kandasamy, Prathibha Ranganathan, Sandhya Rani, Subhashri Ramabadran, Sashikanth Gollapudi, Lavanya Balakrishnan, Sutopa B. Dwivedi, Deepthi Telikicherla, Lakshmi Dhevi N. Selvan, Renu Goel, Suresh Mathivanan, Arivusudar Marimuthu, Manoj Kashyap, Robert F. Vizza, Robert J. Mayer, James A. DeCaprio, Sudhir Srivastava, Samir M. Hanash, Ralph H. Hruban, and Akhilesh Pandey
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000046. Published online 2009 April 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000046.
PMCID: PMC2661257
Rapid Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Treatment in Ethiopia: Successes and System-Wide Effects
Yibeltal Assefa, Degu Jerene, Sileshi Lulseged, Gorik Ooms, and Wim Van Damme
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000056. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000056.
PMCID: PMC2667265
Policy Forum
Global Health Actors Claim To Support Health System Strengthening—Is This Reality or Rhetoric?
Bruno Marchal, Anna Cavalli, and Guy Kegels
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000059. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000059.
PMCID: PMC2667637
Research in Translation
Tools for Assessing Neuropathic Pain
Giorgio Cruccu and Andrea Truini
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000045. Published online 2009 April 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000045.
PMCID: PMC2661248
Learning Forum
Prolonged Fever, Hepatosplenomegaly, and Pancytopenia in a 46-Year-Old Woman
Liran Levy, Abedelmajeed Nasereddin, Moshe Rav-Acha, Meirav Kedmi, Deborah Rund, and Moshe E. Gatt
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000053. Published online 2009 April 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000053.
PMCID: PMC2661247
Research Articles
A Novel Tool for the Assessment of Pain: Validation in Low Back Pain
Joachim Scholz, Richard J. Mannion, Daniela E. Hord, Robert S. Griffin, Bhupendra Rawal, Hui Zheng, Daniel Scoffings, Amanda Phillips, Jianli Guo, Rodney J. C. Laing, Salahadin Abdi, Isabelle Decosterd, and Clifford J. Woolf
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000047. Published online 2009 April 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000047.
PMCID: PMC2661253
Antigenic Fingerprinting of H5N1 Avian Influenza Using Convalescent Sera and Monoclonal Antibodies Reveals Potential Vaccine and Diagnostic Targets
Surender Khurana, Amorsolo L. Suguitan, Jr., Yonaira Rivera, Cameron P. Simmons, Antonio Lanzavecchia, Federica Sallusto, Jody Manischewitz, Lisa R. King, Kanta Subbarao, and Hana Golding
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000049. Published online 2009 April 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000049.
PMCID: PMC2661249
Multiple Origins and Regional Dispersal of Resistant dhps in African Plasmodium falciparum Malaria
Richard J. Pearce, Hirva Pota, Marie-Solange B. Evehe, El-Hadj Bâ, Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma, Allen L. Malisa, Rosalynn Ord, Walter Inojosa, Alexandre Matondo, Diadier A. Diallo, Wilfred Mbacham, Ingrid V. van den Broek, Todd D. Swarthout, Asefaw Getachew, Seyoum Dejene, Martin P. Grobusch, Fanta Njie, Samuel Dunyo, Margaret Kweku, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Daniel Chandramohan, Maryline Bonnet, Jean-Paul Guthmann, Sian Clarke, Karen I. Barnes, Elizabeth Streat, Stark T. Katokele, Petrina Uusiku, Chris O. Agboghoroma, Olufunmilayo Y. Elegba, Badara Cissé, Ishraga E. A-Elbasit, Hayder A. Giha, S. Patrick Kachur, Caroline Lynch, John B. Rwakimari, Pascalina Chanda, Moonga Hawela, Brian Sharp, Inbarani Naidoo, and Cally Roper
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000055. Published online 2009 April 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000055.
PMCID: PMC2661256
Unrecognized Non-Q-Wave Myocardial Infarction: Prevalence and Prognostic Significance in Patients with Suspected Coronary Disease
Han W. Kim, Igor Klem, Dipan J. Shah, Edwin Wu, Sheridan N. Meyers, Michele A. Parker, Anna Lisa Crowley, Robert O. Bonow, Robert M. Judd, and Raymond J. Kim
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000057. Published online 2009 April 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000057.
PMCID: PMC2661255
The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors
Goodarz Danaei, Eric L. Ding, Dariush Mozaffarian, Ben Taylor, Jürgen Rehm, Christopher J. L. Murray, and Majid Ezzati
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000058. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000058.
PMCID: PMC2667673
Mortality of HIV-Infected Patients Starting Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparison with HIV-Unrelated Mortality
Martin W. G. Brinkhof, Andrew Boulle, Ralf Weigel, Eugène Messou, Colin Mathers, Catherine Orrell, François Dabis, Margaret Pascoe, Matthias Egger, and for the International epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA)
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000066. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000066.
PMCID: PMC2667633
Influence of Rapid Malaria Diagnostic Tests on Treatment and Health Outcome in Fever Patients, Zanzibar—A Crossover Validation Study
Mwinyi I. Msellem, Andreas Mårtensson, Guida Rotllant, Achuyt Bhattarai, Johan Strömberg, Elizeus Kahigwa, Montse Garcia, Max Petzold, Peter Olumese, Abdullah Ali, and Anders Björkman
PLoS Med. 2009 April; 6(4): e1000070. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000070.
PMCID: PMC2667629
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