International Editors—Update

• Emerging Infectious Diseases—Southeast Asia Sai Kit Lam

Perspectives

• Wild Primate Populations in Emerging Infectious Disease Research: The Missing Link? N.A. Wolfe, A.A. Escalante, W.B. Karesh, A. Kilbourn, A. Spielman, and A.A. Lal
• A Method Accommodating Analysis of Error Facilitates Comparison and Clustering of Molecular Fingerprints. H. Salamon, M.R. Segal, A. Ponce de Leon, and P.M. Small
• Legal Issues Associated with Antimicrobial Drug Resistance. D.P. Fidler
• Interactions of Rickettsial Pathogens with Arthropod Vectors. A.F. Azad and C.B. Beard
• Could Myocarditis, Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and Guillain Barré Syndrome be caused by One or More Infectious Agents Carried by Rodents? B. Niklasson, B. Hörnfeldt, and B. Lundman
• Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Molecular Perspectives. A. Rattan, A. Kalia, and N. Ahmad

Synopses

• Hospitalization for Unexplained Illnesses Among U.S. Persian Gulf War Veterans. J.D. Knoke and C. Gray
• Could the Agricultural Use of Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia Pose a Threat to Human Health? A. Holmes, J. Govan, and R. Goldstein
• The Epidemiology of Haemophilus influenzae Invasive Diseases in the United States, 1994-1995: Near Disappearance of a Child Vaccine Preventable Disease. K.M. Bisgard, A. Kao, J. Leake, P.M. Strebel, B.A. Perkins, M. Wharton
• Multiply Resistant Enterococci: The Nature of the Problem and an Agenda for the Future. M.M. Huycke, D.F. Sahm, and M.S. Gilmore
• Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) in Diarrhea and Malnutrition. J.P. Nataro, T. Steiner, and R.L. Guerrant
• C3 Binding Among Campylobacter jejuni Strains from Patients with Guillain-Barré Syndrome or with Uncomplicated Enteritis. B.M. Allos, F.T. Lippy, A. Carlsen, R.G. Washburn, and M.J. Blaser

Dispatches

• An Apparently New Virus (Family Paramyxoviridae) Infectious for Pigs, Humans, and Fruit Bats. A.W. Philbey, P.D. Kirkland, A.D. Ross, R.J. Davis, A.B. Gleeson, R.J. Love, A.R. Gould, P.W. Daniels, and A.D. Hyatt
• Probable Human Infection with a Newly Described Virus in the Family Paramyxoviridae. K. Chant, R.Chan, M.Smith, D.E Dwyer, P. Kirkland, and the NSW Expert Group
• Emergence of the M Phenotype of Erythromycin-Resistant Pneumococci in South Africa. C.D. Widdowson and K.P. Klugman
• Reemergence of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in the Republic of Korea. B.H. Feighner, P. Son Il, W.L. Novakoski, L.L. Kelsey, and D. Strickman
• Molecular and Epidemiologic Analysis of Dengue Virus Isolates from Somalia, N. Kanesa-thasan, G.J. Chang, B.L. Smoak, A. Magill, M.J. Burrous, and C.H. Hoke, Jr.
• Molecular Characterization of a Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia species from Ixodes scapularis in Texas. A.N. Billings, G.J. Teltow, and D.H. Walker
• Dual Infection with Erlichia chaffeensis and a Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia: A Case Report. D.J. Sexton, G.R. Corey, C. Carpenter, L.Q. Kong, T. Gandhi, E. Breitschwerdt, B. Hegarty, S.-M. Cheng, H.-M. Feng, X.-J. Yu, J. Olano, D.H. Walker, and S.J. Dumler
• New Probable Vectors of Rift Valley Fever in West and Central Africa. D. Fontenille, M. Traore-Lamizana, M. Diallo, J. Thonnon, J.P. Digoutte, and H.G. Zeller    (in French)
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection as a Zoonotic Disease: Evidence of Possible Transmission between Humans and Elephants. K. Michalak, C. Austin, S. Diesel, J.M. Bacon, P. Zimmerman, and J.N. Maslow
• Molecular Fingerprinting of Multiresistant Salmonella typhi. M.D. Hampton, L.R. Ward, B. Rowe, and E.J. Threlfall
• Using Nurse Hot Line Calls for Disease Surveillance. J.S. Rodman, F. Frost, and W. Jakubowski
• Clostridium septicum Infection and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. M. Barnham and N. Weightman
• Persistent Infection of Pets within a Household with Three Bartonella Species. D.L. Kordick and E.B. Breitschwerdt

Commentary

• Vector-borne Disease Surveillance and Natural Disasters Roger S. Nasci and Chester G. Moore

Letters

• Similarity of Chemokines Charge and the V3 Domain of HIV-1 env
  Protein Ben Berkhout and Atze T. Das
• Detection of Glycoprotein of Burkholderia pseudomallei Natalja P. Khrapova, Nikolay G. Tikhonov, Yelena V. Prokhvatilova
• Forging New Perspectives on Disease Surveillance Harley Feldbaum
• Provide a Context for Disease Emergence Toby D. St. George
• Resistance to Dryness of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Strains from
  Outbreak in Sakai City, Japan, 1996 Yoshio Iijima, Mayumi Matsumoto, Kumiko Higuchi, Taro Furuta, and Takeshi Honda
• Irradiation Pasteurization of Solid Foods Stephen Moses and Robert C. Brunham
• Emerging Infectious Diseases in Brazil Luiz Jacintho da Silva
• Reply to L.J. da Silva Hooman Momen
• A Brief Update on Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus Lorenzo Capucci and Antonio Lavazza
• Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease C. Mead
• Reply to Drs. Capucci, Lavazza, and Mead Alvin W. Smith, Neil J. Cherry, and David O. Matson

News and Notes

• The National Food Safety Initiative
• Conference on Global Disease Elimination and Eradication as Public Health Strategies,
  February 26, 1998
• New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Course
• Erratum
  

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