1. Rodent malarias: the mouse as a model for understanding immune responses and pathology induced by the erythrocytic stages of the parasite

   • Ching Li
   • Elsa Seixas
   • Jean Langhorne

   REVIEW Pages: 115 - 126

2. The intercellular adhesin locus ica is present in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from bacteremic patients with infected and uninfected prosthetic joints

   • Vance G. Fowler Jr
   • Paul D. Fey
   • Mark E. Rupp

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 127 - 131

3. The detergent octylglucoside neutralizes lipopolysaccharide in a specific manner

   • Birgit Henrich
   • Raquel Guadarrama
   • Colin R. MacKenzie

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 133 - 136

4. Successful in vitro generation of Epstein-Barr virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes from severe chronic active EBV patients

   • Masao Hagihara
   • Takahide Tsuchiya
   • Tomomitsu Hotta

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 137 - 145

5. A dietary probiotic (Bifidobacterium lactis HN019) reduces the severity of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection in mice

   • Quan Shu
   • Harsharnjit S. Gill

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 147 - 152

6. Two different NO-dependent mechanisms account for the low virulence of a non-mycelial morphological mutant of Candida albicans

   • Rosalía Diez-Orejas
   • Gloria Molero
   • Miguel Sánchez-Pérez

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 153 - 160

7. Neopterin production and tryptophan degradation in humans infected by Streptococcus pyogenes

   • Christian Murr
   • Dieter Gerlach
   • Dietmar Fuchs

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 161 - 163

8. Absence of anti-hepatitis B surface antibody after vaccination does not necessarily mean absence of immune response

   • Gilbert Greub
   • Frédéric Zysset
   • Philippe C. Frei

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 165 - 168

9. Cecropins, antibacterial peptides from insects and mammals, are potently fungicidal against Candida albicans

   • Jörg Andrä
   • Otto Berninghausen
   • Matthias Leippe

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 169 - 173