Volume 11, Number 3—March 2005

New surveillance approach can analyze >900 polymerase chain reactions per day.

Higher levels of fluoroquinolone use were associated with increasing age and later study year.

This first report suggests that dogs can be asymptomatically infected with Ebola virus.

Residence in the upper Blue Mountains, age of 50–64 years, direct contact with wild birds, and lawn mowing without a grass catcher were associated with psittacosis.

Import restrictions and public awareness campaigns are effective against this common childhood infection.

SARS-CoV spike protein pseudotypes are the basis of an in vitro microneutralization assay sensitive and specific for SARS-CoV neutralizing antibodies.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from horses and horse personnel in a pattern suggestive of interspecies transmission of a human-origin clone.