1. Use of PCR to detect infection of differentially susceptible maize cultivars using Ustilago maydis strains of variable virulence

   • Alfredo D. Martínez-Espinoza
   • Claudia G. León-Ramírez
   • José Ruiz-Herrera

   Research Article 24 May 2003 Pages: 117 - 120

   

2. Spinning-off and joining ventures in microbiology

   • Antonio G. Pisabarro

   Editorial 27 June 2003 Pages: 85 - 86

3. Hyperthermophily and the origin and earliest evolution of life

   • Sara Islas
   • Ana M. Velasco
   • Antonio Lazcano

   Review Article 28 June 2003 Pages: 87 - 94

   

4. Culture collections over the world

   • David Smith

   Review Article 14 May 2003 Pages: 95 - 100

5. History and services of culture collections

   • Federico Uruburu

   Review Article 13 June 2003 Pages: 101 - 103

   

6. Culture collections and biochemistry

   • Manuel Cánovas
   • José L. Iborra

   Review Article 09 May 2003 Pages: 105 - 112

   

7. Multiplex PCR for simultaneous detection of enterococcal genes vanA and vanB and staphylococcal genes mecA, ileS-2 and femB

   • Elena Ramos-Trujillo
   • Eduardo Pérez-Roth
   • Félix Claverie-Martín

   Research Article 12 June 2003 Pages: 113 - 115

   

8. Trehalose accumulation induced during the oxidative stress response is independent of TPS1 mRNA levels in Candida albicans

   • Óscar Zaragoza
   • Pilar González-Párraga
   • Juan-Carlos Argüelles

   Research Article 29 May 2003 Pages: 121 - 125

   

9. Evidence of an association between poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) accumulation and phosphotransbutyrylase expression in Bacillus megaterium

   • Gustavo J. Vazquez
   • M. Julia Pettinari
   • Beatriz S. Méndez

   Research Article 24 June 2003 Pages: 127 - 129

   

10. Cyclospora cayetanensis and other intestinal parasites associated with diarrhea in a rural area of Jordan

    • Laila F. Nimri

    Research Article 29 May 2003 Pages: 131 - 135

11. A brief history of the journal(s) of the SEM: staunchly resisting against improbability. II. From 1998 to 2002

    • Ricardo Guerrero
    • Rubens López

    Perspectives 14 June 2003 Pages: 137 - 143

    

12. Confused and misused: English under attack in scientific literature

    • Dmitry N. Tychinin
    • Vera A. Webb

    Opinion 24 June 2003 Pages: 145 - 148

13. Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, Stephen Sharnoff: Lichens of North America

    • Lynn Margulis

    Book Review 19 June 2003 Pages: 149 - 150

14. Aharon Oren: Halophilic microorganisms and their environments

    • Alex Künzel

    Book Review 24 June 2003 Pages: 151 - 152

    

15. Javier Sebastián Mazana Casanova: Historia de la immunología

    • Carmen Chica

    Book Review 19 June 2003 Pages: 153 - 154