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• • ·Short course of prednisolone in patients with solitary cysticercus granuloma: A double blind placebo controlled study

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    R.K. Garg, N. Potluri, A.M. Kar, M.K. Singh, R. Shukla, A. Agrawal, R. Verma

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• • ·For debate: Is disinfection of specimens, which may contain unknown or bio-terrorist organisms, essential before electron microscopic examination?

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    Charles Richard Madeley, Stefan S. Biel

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• EDITORIAL

  • ·2006: A year for cautious optimism in tuberculosis

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    Martin Wiselka

    

• ORIGINAL ARTICLES

  • ·Drug-resistant tuberculosis: A disease of target populations in Houston, Texas

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    Hana M. El Sahly, Larry D. Teeter, Rebecca R. Pawlak, James M. Musser, Edward A. Graviss

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  • ·Brucellosis is not a major cause of febrile illness in patients at public health care facilities in Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam

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    Tran T.T. Nga, Peter J. de Vries, Theresia H. Abdoel, Henk L. Smits

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  • ·Diagnosis and evaluation of febrile infants under 4 months of age in Japan by using RT-PCR for enterovirus

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    Hisashi Kawashima, Kusukazu Kobayashi, Kentarou Aritaki, Takeshi Takami, Hiroaki Ioi, Yasuyo Kashiwagi, Kouji Takekuma, Akinori Hoshika

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  • ·Rapid detection of pneumococcal antigen in serum samples for diagnosing pneumococcal pneumonia

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    J. Domínguez, F. Andreo, S. Blanco, J. Ruiz-Manzano, C. Prat, I. Latorre, N. Galí, R. Rivelo, L. Matas, V. Ausina

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  • ·Multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli clonal groups causing community-acquired bloodstream infections

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    Amee R. Manges, Françoise Perdreau-Remington, Owen Solberg, Lee W. Riley

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  • ·Systemic inflammatory response syndrome in adult patients with nosocomial bloodstream infection due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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    Alexandre R. Marra, Katharine Bar, Gonzalo M.L. Bearman, Richard P. Wenzel, Michael B. Edmond

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  • ·Pegylated interferon ⍺-2b plus ribavirin for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in HIV-coinfected patients

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    Esther Voigt, Christian Schulz, Gerd Klausen, Joerg Goelz, Stefan Mauss, Guenther Schmutz, Heiko Jessen, Lutwin Weitner, Antonius Mutz, Dietmar Schranz, Juergen K. Rockstroh

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  • ·Prevalence and clinical role of GBV-C infection after cardiac surgery in childhood: A study on 414 patients

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    Manfred Vogt, Barbara Klostermann, Siegmund Braun, Raymonde Busch, John Hess, Gert Frösner, Thomas Lang

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  • ·Prosthetic vascular graft infection: A risk factor analysis using a case–control study

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    Vera S. Antonios, Audra A. Noel, James M. Steckelberg, Walter R. Wilson, Jayawant N. Mandrekar, William S. Harmsen, Larry M. Baddour

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  • ·Is malaria a predisposing factor for third molar pericoronitis in the tropics?

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    Foluso J. Owotade, Kehinde E. Adebiyi, Oladipo A. Aboderin, Olawunmi A. Fatusi, Eyitope O. Ogunbodede, Okechukwu Akueme

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  • ·Visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar)—the Bihar (India) perspective

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    P.K. Sinha, A. Ranjan, V.P. Singh, V.N.R. Das, K. Pandey, N. Kumar, N. Verma, C.S. Lal, D. Sur, B. Manna, S.K. Bhattacharya

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• LETTER TO THE EDITOR

  • ·Pseudomonas stutzeri pneumonia in an HIV seropositive patient

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    Angela Loyse, R.A. Storring, Mark Melzer

     

• CASE REPORTS

  • ·Invasive group A streptococcal infection with pancarditis caused by a new emm-type 12 allele of Streptococcus pyogenes

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    Gülşen Özkaya, Ali Shorbagi, Zekeriya Ülger, Arzu Saglam, Melda Aybar, Yeşim Çetinkaya Şardan, Ömrüm Uzun

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  • ·Lactobacillus endocarditis: Case report and review of cases reported since 1992

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    Edsel Maurice T. Salvana, Michael Frank

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  • ·Candida albicans endocarditis treatment with caspofungin in an HIV-infected patient—case report and review of literature

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    Valentina Bacak, Bojan Biocina, Boris Starcevic, Sarah Gertler, Josip Begovac

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  • ·Fournier’s gangrene treated by simultaneously using colostomy and open drainage

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    Masanori Murakami, Keiji Okamura, Masanori Hayashi, Satoshi Minoh, Ichiro Morishige, Kimikazu Hamano

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  • ·Acute fulminant hepatitis B in a patient with diabetic nephropathy treated successfully with concomitant lamivudine and molecular adsorbents recirculating system

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    Shih-Hung Tsai, Hao-Ming Chang, Chung-Bao Hsieh, You-Chen Chao, Tsai-Yuan Hsieh

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  • ·Successful treatment of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) in a HIV infected patient with multiple relapsing leishmaniasis from Western Europe

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    Markus Rihl, Matthias Stoll, Kai Ulbricht, Franz-Christoph Bange, Reinhold-Ernst Schmidt

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  • ·Lipodystrophy and serum lipid abnormalities in HIV-positive sub-Saharan population on ART

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    Pietro Filippini, Carlo Scolastico, Martina Battaglia, Cesare Nacca, Nicola Coppola, Giovanni Rossi, Raffaella Pisapia, Salvatore Martini, Michele Imparato, Caterina Sagnelli, Felice Piccinino, Evangelista Sagnelli

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  • ·Late-onset eosinophilic chronic meningitis occurring 30 years after Taenia solium infestation in a white Caucasian woman

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    H. Castillo-Iglesias, S. Mouly, A. Ducros, C. Sarfati, A. Sulahian, J.F. Bergmann

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  • ·A rare case of Brucella melitensis infection in an obstetrician during the delivery of a transplacentally infected infant

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    Aggeliki Poulou, Fani Markou, Ioannis Xipolitos, Panayotis N. Skandalakis

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  • ·Measurement of neutrophil membrane CD64 and HLA-Dr in a patient with abdominal sepsis

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    Wim van der Meer, Colin Stephen Scott, Carin Verlaat, Jacqueline Klein Gunnewiek, Adilia Warris

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