International Journal of Infectious Diseases: Volume 5, Number 2
EDITORIAL
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Hospital Discharge Databases in the Surveillance of Infectious Diseases: Is Their Use Warranted?
Athanasios Tom Koutsavlis, MD, CM, MSc
ORIGINAL REPORTS
- Seasonal Variation in the Etiology of Bloodstream
Infections in a Febrile Inpatient Population in a Developing Country
Michael Bell, MD; Lennox K. Archibald, MD; Okey Nwanyanwu, PhD; Hamish Dobbie, MB; Jerome Tokars, MD; Peter N. Kazembe, MD; L. Barth Reller, MD; and William R. Jarvis, MD
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Transfusion Outcome in a Resource-Limited Setting of Cameroon: A Five-Year Evaluation
Dora Mbanya, MD; Fidele Binam, MD; and Lazare Kaptue, MD
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Bacteriology and Beta-Lactamase Activity in Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Bronchitis
Itzhak Brook, MD, MSc; and Edith H. Frazier, MSc
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Histopathology of Cryptococcosis and Other Fungal Infections in Patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Kazutoshi Shibuya, MD; Walter D. Coulson, MD; Jerome S. Wollman,
MD; Megumi Wakayama, MD; Tsunehiro Ando, MD; Toshiaki Oharaseki,
MD; Kei Takahashi, MD; and Shiro Naoe, MD
- Comparative Analysis of Outcome and Clinical
Features in Children with Pleural Empyema Caused by Penicillin-Nonsusceptible
and Penicillin-Susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae
Hugo Paganini, MD; Javuer Ruiz Guiñazú, MD; Claudia
Hernández, PhD; Horacio Lopardo, PhD; Fermando Gonzalez,
MD; and Griselda Berberian, MD
- Antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi among
Blood Donors in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jorgelina L. Blejer, MD; María C. Saguier, MD; and Horacio J. Salamone, MD
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Tuberculosis and Drug Resistance among Patients Seen at an AIDS Reference Center in São Paulo, Brazil
Walkyria Pereira Pinto, PhD; David Jamil Hadad, MD: Maria A.
Silva Telles; Sueli Yoshino Mizuka Ueki; Moisés Palaci;
and Maria Aparecida Basile, PhD
CORRECTION
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Changes over Time in the Epidemiology of Diarrhea and Malnutrition among Children in an Urban Brazilian Shantytown, 1989 to 1996
CASE REPORTS
- Fatal Unrecognized Cutaneous and Systemic Kaposi's
Sarcoma in an AIDS Patient with Acute Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis
Vladimir Berthaud, MD, MPH; and Carlos Navarro, MD
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Wound Zygomycosis: Two Cases with Unusual Manifestations
Michele Karim, MD; Rashida Ahmed, MD; and Khalid Chishty, MD
- Primary Actinomycosis of the Hand: A Case Report
and Literature Review
Ali Mert, MD; Muammer Bilir, MD; Hisi Bahar, PhD; Muzeyyen
Torun, PhD; Fehmi Tabak, MD; Recep Ozturk, MD; Resat Ozaras,
MD; and Yildirim Aktuglu, MD
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Lamiduvine Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection and Pregnancy: A Case Report
Krzysztof Tomasiewicz, MD; Roma Modrzewska, MD, PhD; Grazyna
Krawczuk, MD; and Anna Lyczak, MD