1. The unacceptable costs of the diseases of poverty

   • Richard L. Guerrant

   Invited Commentary Pages: 1 - 3

2. Web alert

   News Pages: 7 - 7

3. Literature alert

   Abstract Pages: 8 - 8

4. Relationship of penicillin resistance to mortality in pneumococcal pneumonia

   • Lionel A. Mandell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 12

5. What’s new in β-lactamases?

   • Patricia A. Bradford

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 19

6. Quinolone resistance: Older concepts and newer developments

   • Darrin J. Bast
   • Joyce C. S. de Azavedo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 20 - 28

7. Influence of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles on antibiotic selection

   • George G. Zhanel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 34

8. Use of modeling techniques to aid in antibiotic selection

   • Alexander A. Firsov
   • Stephen H. Zinner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 43

9. Atovaquone/proguanil for the treatment and prevention of malaria

   • Richard D. Pearson

   Clinical Trials Report Pages: 47 - 49

10. Preparation of the HIV-infected traveler to the tropics

    • Christopher L. Karp

    OriginalPaper Pages: 50 - 58

11. Recent advances in schistosomiasis

    • G. Richard Olds
    • Srinivasan Dasarathy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 67

12. Recent advances in the prophylaxis and treatment of malaria

    • Annie-Claude Labbé
    • Mona R. Loutfy
    • Kevin C. Kain

    OriginalPaper Pages: 68 - 76

13. Tapeworms

    • Herbert B. Tanowitz
    • Louis M. Weiss
    • Murray Wittner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 84

14. Toxoplasmosis

    • Joseph D. Schwartzman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 89

15. Mechanisms for HIV-1 entry: Current strategies to interfere with this step

    • Georgia D. Tomaras
    • Michael L. Greenberg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 99