153. ProMED-Update
     Dan S. Shapiro and Fiona J. Cooke

REVIEW

154. Cytokines in immunodeficient patients with invasive fungal infections: an emerging therapy
     Emmanuel Roilides, Cristina Gil Lamaignere and Evangelia Farmakia
     

ORIGINAL REPORTS

164. HIV disease progression: is the Brazilan variant subtype B (GWGR motif) less pathogenic than US/European subtype B (GPGR)?
     Jorg Casseb, Shirley Komninakis, Leslie Abadalla, Luis Fernando M. Brigido, Rosangela Rodrigues, Fabio Araújo, Ana Paula Rocha Veiga, Alexandre de Almeida, Bredan Flannery, R. Michael Hendry and Alberto Jose da Silva Duarte
     
     
170. Rapid confirmation of HIV infection
     Niel T. Constantine and Fassil Ketema
     
     
178. The association of serum lactate dehydrogenase level with selected opportunistic infections and HIV progression
     Adeel A. Butt, Stephanie Michaels and Patricia Kissinger
     
     
182. Brucellosis in children: clinical observations in 115 cases
     Mohammed Al Shaalan, Ziad A. Memish, Suleiman Al Mahmood, A. Alomari, Mohammed Y. Khan, Maha Almuneef, Suleiman Alalola
     
     
187. Risk factors for mortality by nontyphoidal Salmonella sp. in children
     Maria Teresa Rosanova, Hugo Paganini, Rosa Bologna, Horacio Lopardo and Gabriela Ensinck
     
     
191. Risk of giardiasis in Aucklanders: a case-control study
     M. Ekramul Hoque, Virginia T. Hope, Robert Scragg, Tord Kjellström and Roy Lay-Yee
     
     
198. Prospective epidemiological analysis of triazole-resistant nosocomial Candida glabrata isolated from patients at a comprehensive cancer center
     Amar Safdar, Donald Armstrong, Emily W. Cross and David S. Perlin
     
     
202. A new measles mumps rubella (MMR) vaccine: a randomized comparative trial for assessing the reactogenicity and immunogenicity of three consecutive production lots and comparison with a widely used MMR vaccine in measles primed children
     Chin-Yun Lee, Ren-Bin Tang, Fu-Yuan Huang, Haiwen Tang, Li-Min Huang and Hans L. Bock
     
     
210. Economical multi-site intra-dermal regimen with purified chick embryo cell vaccine (Rabipur) prevents rabies in people bitten by confirmed rabid animals
     S.N. Madhusudana, N. Prem Anand and Shamsundar Ranjini
     
     
215. Immunogenicity and reactogenicity of combined versus separately administered DPTw-HBV and Hib vaccines given to healthy infants at 2, 4, and 6 months of age, with a booster at 18 months
     Stella Riedemann, Germán Reinhardt, Jaime Jara, Richard Rios M, María Soledad Wenzel, Paul Willems and Hans L. Bock
     
     
223. Detection of serologic responses toward GB Virus C/hepatitis G virus infection
     Shih-Yen Lo, Chia-Wen Ku, Hsin-Chieh Ma, Yi-Kwei Li, Jui-Hung Yu, Hsien-Hong Lin, Ahai-C. Lua and Ming-Liang Lee
     
     
228. HCV serotypes in Brazilian patients
     Norma de Paula Cavalheiro, Antonio Alci Barone and Fátima Mitiko Tengan
     
     
233. Clinical diagnosis of P. falciparum among children with history of fever, Sindh, Pakistan
     Siroos Hozhabri, Stephen P. Luby, Mohammad H. Rahbar and Saeed Akhtar
     

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

236. Disastrous results of indigenous methods of rabies prevention in developing countries
     J.K. Dutta
     
     
238. Renal abscess due to Mycobacterium avium complex in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient
     Robert Colebunders, Ilse Kint, Ivan Bastian, Eva Mortelmans, Werner Jacobs and Eric Van Marck
     
     
240. Antibody response to hepatitis B vaccine in infants of HIV positive mothers
     Veerachai Watanaveeradej, Rudiwilai Samakoses, Angkool Kerdpanich, Chanchai Aree, Sorachai Nitayabhan, Kwanjai Viputtikul, Sujitra Sukwit and Sriluck Simagsathien
     
     
242. GB virus C/hepatitis G virus infection among renal transplant recipients in Izmir, Turkey: molecular analysis of phylogenetic groups
     Selda Erensoy, Aysin Zeytinoglu, Servet Göksel, Tijen Özacar, Mehmet Özkahya, Ercan Ok, Salih Türkoglu, and Altinay Bilgiç
     

BOOK REVIEW

244. Travel Medicine and Migrant Health, Lockie C. et al, eds.
     Reviewed by J.S. Friedland