The October—December 1998 issue of the journal will contain the articles listed below. Highlighted articles are currently available in electronic format. To view an 64K JPEG image of the cover click here.

International Editors—Update

• Emerging Infectious Diseases—South Africa, K.P. Klugman

Perspectives  

• Quasispecies Structure and Persistence of RNA Viruses, E. Domingo, E. Baranowski, C.M. Ruiz-Jarabo, A.M. Martín-Hernández, J.C. Sáiz, and C. Escarmís
• Ecologic Studies of Rodent Reservoirs: Their Relevance for Human Health, J.N. Mills and J.E. Childs
• Diphtheria in the Former Soviet Union: Reemergence of a Pandemic Disease, C.R. Vitek and M. Wharton

Synopses

• Cell-to-Cell Signaling and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections, C. Van Delden and B.H. Iglewski
• Rotavirus, U.D. Parashar, J.S. Bresee, J.R. Gentsch, and R.I. Glass
• Chlamydia pneumoniae and Cardiovascular Disease, L.A.Campbell, C.C. Kuo, and J.T. Grayston
• Bacterial Symbiosis in Arthropods and the Control of Disease Transmission, C.B. Beard, R.V. Durvasula, and F.F. Richards
• Genetic Epidemiology of Infectious Disease in Humans: Design of Population-Based Studies, L. Abel and A.J. Dessein
• Insecticide Resistance and Vector Control, W.G. Brogdon and J.C. McAllister

Dispatches

• Mutators and Long-Term Molecular Evolution of Pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7, T.S. Whittam, S.D. Reid, and R.K. Selander
• Increasing Hospitalization and Death Possibly Due to Clostridium difficile Diarrheal Disease, F. Frost, G.F. Craun, and R.L. Calderon
• Introduction of Aedes albopictus into a La Crosse Virus–Enzootic Site in Illinois, U. Kitron, J. Swanson, M. Crandell, P.J. Sullivan, J. Anderson, R. Garro, L.D. Haramis, and P.R. Grimstad
• Mycobacterium canettii, the Smooth Variant of M. tuberculosis, Isolated from a Swiss Patient Exposed in Africa, G.E. Pfyffer, R. Auckenthaler, J.D.A. van Embden, and D. van Soolingen
• Human Infections with Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Other Than Serogroup O157 in Germany, L. Beutin, S. Zimmermann, and K. Gleier
• New Orientia tsutsugamushi Strain from Scrub Typhus in Australia, D.M. Odorico, S.R. Graves, B. Currie, J. Catmull, Z. Nack, S. Ellis, L. Wang, and D.J Miller
• Streptococcus parasanguinis: New Pathogen Associated with Asymptomatic Mastitis in Sheep, J.F. Fernández-Garayzábal, E. Fernández, A. Las Heras, C. Pascual, M.D. Collins, and L. Domínguez
• Introduction of HIV-2 and Multiple HIV-1 Subtypes to Lebanon, D. Pieniazek, J. Baggs, D.J. Hu, G.M. Matar, A.M. Abdelnoor, J.E. Mokhbat, M. Uwaydah, A.R. Bizri, C.A. Ramos, L.M. Janini, A. Tanuri, C. Fridlund, C. Schable, L. Heyndrickx, M.A. Rayfield, and W. Heneine
• Sporadic STEC O157 Infection: Secondary Household Transmission in Wales, S.M. Parry and R.L. Salmon
• Ehrlichia Infection in Italy, M. Nuti, D.A. Serafini, D. Bassetti, A. Ghionni, F. Russino, P. Rombolŕ, G. Macri, and E. Lillini
• Salmonella Enteritidis PT6: Another Egg-Associated Salmonellosis? M.R. Evans, W. Lane, and C.D. Ribeiro
• Reemergence of Epidemic Malaria in the Highlands of Western Kenya, M.A. Malakooti, K. Biomndo, and G.D. Shanks.
• Murine Typhus in Travelers Returning from Indonesia, P. Parola, D. Vogelaers, C. Roure, F. Janbon, and D. Raoult
• Differentiating Human from Animal Isolates of Cryptosporidium parvum, I.M. Sulaiman, L. Xiao, C. Yang, L. Escalante, A. Moore, C.B. Beard, M.J. Arrowood, and A.A. Lal
• An Outbreak of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Chile, 1997, J. Toro, J.D. Vega, A.S. Khan, J.N. Mills, P. Padula, W. Terry, Z. Yadón, R. Valderrama, B.A. Ellis, C. Pavletic, R. Cerda, S. Zaki, S. Wun-Ju, R. Meyer, M. Tapia, C. Mansilla, M. Baro, J.A. Vergara, M. Concha, G. Calderon, D. Enria, C.J. Peters, and T.G. Ksiazek

Commentaries

• Host Genetics of Infectious Diseases: Old and New Approaches Converge, A.V.S. Hill
• Does Restricted Distribution Limit Access and Coverage of of Yellow Fever Vaccine in the United States? T.P. Monath, J.A. Giesberg, and E.G. Fierros

Letters

• Aedes Aegypti in Tucson, Arizona, T.M. Fink, B. Hau, B.L. Baird, S. Palmer, S. Kaplan, F.B. Ramberg, D.G. Mead, and H. Hagedorn
• Can the Military Contribute to Global Surveillance and Control of Infectious Diseases? R. D'Amelio and D.L. Heymann
• Dual Infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis and a Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia: A Case Report, A.J. Sulzer
• Dual Infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis and a Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia: A Case Report—Reply to Dr. Sulzer, D.J. Sexton and D.H. Walker
• Reemergence of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in the Republic of Korea, P.S. Brachman
• Paratyphoid Fever, M.R. Wallace
• Hospitalizations after the Gulf War, K.M. Leisure, N.L. Nicolson, and G.L. Nicolson
• Hospitalizations after the Gulf War—Reply to K.M. Leisure et al., J.D. Knoke and G.C. Gray

Book Review

• HIV Nursing and Sympton Management, A.C. Moorman

News and Notes

• Overseas Medical Laboratory Conference

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