1. Eosinophils, HLA and amebic disease

   • R. Kretschmer
   • M. López-Osuna

   Editorial Pages: 327 - 328

2. Procalcitonin — A new indicator of the systemic response to severe infections

   • W. Karzai
   • M. Oberhoffer
   • K. Reinhart

   Review Pages: 329 - 334

3. The effects of pretransplant conditioning, graft-versus-host disease and sepsis on the CRP levels in bone marrow transplantation

   • E. Rintala
   • K. Remes
   • P. Koskinen

   Originalia Pages: 335 - 338

4. Serum antibodies to diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine components in Argentine children

   • Marcela Pasetti
   • Patricia Eriksson
   • F. Ferrero

   Originalia Pages: 339 - 345

5. Book review

   • A. Berger
   • H. W. Doerr

   BookReview Pages: 345 - 345

6. Hepatitis C virus infection in households of anti-HCV chronic carriers in Italy: A multicentre case-control study

   • E. Sagnelli
   • G. B. Gaeta
   • G. Giusti

   Originalia Pages: 346 - 349

7. Value of phenotyping methods as an initial screening ofPseudomonas aeruginosa in epidemiologic studies

   • D. Bergmans
   • M. Bonten
   • C. Gaillard

   Originalia Pages: 350 - 354

8. Prevalence and epidemiological significance ofTrypanosoma cruzi infection among latin american immigrants in Berlin, Germany

   • M. Frank
   • Bärbel Hegenscheid
   • T. Weinke

   Originalia Pages: 355 - 358

9. The sustained release of antibiotic from freeze-dried fibrin-antibiotic compound and efficacies in a rat model of osteomyelitis

   • M. Itokazu
   • K. Yamamoto
   • K. Watanabe

   Originalia Pages: 359 - 363

10. Clinical features of crimean-congo haemorrhagic fever in the united arab emirates

    • T. F. Schwarz
    • H. Nsanze
    • A. M. Ameen

    Brief Report Pages: 364 - 367

11. Overwhelming postsplenectomy infection with vaccine-typeStreptococcus pneumoniae in a 12-year-old girl despite vaccination and antibiotic prophylaxis

    • J. Klinge
    • J. Scharf
    • R. R. Reiner

    Brief Report Pages: 368 - 371

12. Book review

    • T. Löscher

    BookReview Pages: 371 - 371

13. Sudeck's atrophy in lyme borreliosis

    • H. R. Bruckbauer
    • Heidelore Hofmann
    • P. Herzer

    Case Report Pages: 372 - 376

14. Failure of PCT to indicate severe fungal infection in two immunodeficient patients

    • W. Huber
    • Ursula Schweigart
    • P. Bottermann

    Correspondence Pages: 377 - 378

15. Acute renal failure due to leptospirosis grippotyphosa

    • M. N. Gerding
    • R. L. M. Brouwer
    • A. D. M. E. Osterhaus

    Correspondence Pages: 379 - 380

16. T. Bergan (ed.) Infectiology, vol. 1 urinary tract infections

    • R. Beetz

    BookReview Pages: 380 - 380

17. Serum rantes levels in HIV-positive individuals and in HIV-negative exposed health-care workers

    • F. Vitale
    • Filippa Bonura
    • N. Romano

    Correspondence Pages: 381 - 382

18. Cervical necrotizing fasciitis in an infant caused byHaemophilus non influenzae

    • Andréa Maria Gomes Cordeiro
    • A. Bousso
    • Y. Okay

    Correspondence Pages: 383 - 384