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Volume 8, Number 12—December 2002

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Perspective

Outpatient Antibiotic Use and Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Pneumococci in France and Germany: A Sociocultural Perspective
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S. Harbarth et al.
Identifying Reservoirs of Infection: A Conceptual and Practical Challenge
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Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in Infants: Research Opportunities Ignored
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S. B. Halstead et al.
Role of the Domestic Chicken (Gallus gallus)in the Epidemiology of Urban Visceral Leishmaniasis in Brazil
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B. Alexander et al.

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Synopses

Antimicrobial Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae, Taiwan
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P. Hsueh and K. Luh

Research

First Isolation of West Nile virus from a Patient with Encephalitis in the United States
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C. Huang et al.
West Nile virus Epidemic in Horses, Tuscany Region, Italy
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G. L. Autorino et al.
Induction of Inflammation by West Nile virus Capsid through the Caspase-9 Apoptotic Pathway
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J. Yang et al.
Vector Competence of California Mosquitoes for West Nile virus
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L. B. Goddard et al.
Efficacy of Killed Virus Vaccine, Live Attenuated Chimeric Virus Vaccine, and Passive Immunization for Prevention of West Nile virus Encephalitis in Hamster Model
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R. B. Tesh et al.
Mass Vaccination Campaign Following Community Outbreak of Meningococcal Disease
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G. Krause et al.
Meteorologic Influences on Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in the Highland Tea Estates of Kericho, Western Kenya
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G. Shanks et al.
Antimicrobial Resistance of Escherichia coli O26, O103, O111, O128, and O145 from Animals and Humans
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C. M. Schroeder et al.
Genetic Analysis of Viruses Associated with Emergence of Rift Valley Fever in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, 2000-01
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T. Shoemaker et al.
Co-feeding Transmission and Its Contribution to the Perpetuation of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia afzelii
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D. Richter et al.
Use of Binary Cumulative Sums and Moving Averages in Nosocomial Infection Cluster Detection
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S. M. Brown et al.
Using Automated Health Plan Data to Assess Infection Risk from Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
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R. Platt et al.
Cross-Sectional Study on Influenza Vaccination, Germany, 1999–2000
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S. Rehmet et al.
Legionnaires’ Disease at a Dutch Flower Show: Prognostic Factors and Impact of Therapy
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K. D. Lettinga et al.
Leptospirosis: Skin Wounds and Control Strategies, Thailand, 1999
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P. Phraisuwan et al.

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Dispatches

Isolation and Genetic Characterization of Rift Valley fever virus from Aedes vexans arabiensis, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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B. R. Miller et al.
Rat-to-Human Transmission of Cowpox Infection
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T. F. Wolfs et al.
Naturally Occurring Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection in Two Prosimian Primate Species: Ring-tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) and Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata)
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C. V. Williams et al.
Increasing Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Campylobacter jejuni, Pennsylvania, USA,1982–20011
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I. Nachamkin et al.
New Variant of Varicella-Zoster Virus
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G. A. Tipples et al.
Plasmodium ovale Malaria Acquired in Central Spain
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J. Cuadros et al.
Puumala hantavirus Infection in Humans and in the Reservoir Host, Ardennes Region, France
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F. Sauvage et al.
Capsule Switching among C:2b:P1.2,5 Meningococcal Epidemic Strains after Mass Immunization Campaign, Spain
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B. Alcalá et al.
Human Pathogens in Body and Head Lice
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P. Fournier et al.

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Commentaries

Clinical Failures of Linezolid and Implications for the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
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B. A. Potoski et al.

Another Dimension

Ebola-Poe: A Modern-Day Parallel of the Red Death?
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S. K. Vora and S. V. Ramanan

Letters

Avian Reservoirs of the Agent of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis?
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T. J. Daniels et al.
Emerging Leptospirosis, North India
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R. Chaudhry et al.

Books and Media

The Microbial Challenge: Human-Microbe Interactions
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J. E. McDade

About the Cover

Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267-1337). St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata (c. 1290)
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P. Potter

Conference Summaries

Institute of Medicine Forum on Emerging Infections: Linking Infectious Agents and Chronic Diseases
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S. O’Connor et al.

Corrections

Correction, Vol. 8, No. 10

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