1. Web alert

   News Pages: 1 - 2

2. Literature alert

   Abstract Pages: 3 - 4

3. Treatment of bacterial meningitis

   • Allan R. Tunkel
   • W. Michael Scheld

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 16

4. The oxazolidinones

   • Gerald A. Evans

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 27

5. Biological warfare: Implications for antimicrobial use

   • Ethan Rubinstein
   • Itzhak Levi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 28 - 34

6. Chlamydia pneumoniae and cardiovascular disease

   • Maria Kolia
   • Ignatius William Fong

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 43

7. Albendazole versus placebo for the treatment of Echinococcus granulosus

   • Richard D. Pearson

   Clinical Trials Report Pages: 47 - 49

8. Recent advances and new challenges in travel medicine

   • Lin H. Chen
   • Mary E. Wilson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 50 - 58

9. An update on the geohelminths: Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworms, Trichuris trichiura, and Strongyloides stercoralis

   • Richard D. Pearson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 64

10. Update on lymphatic filarial infections

    • Paul B. Keiser
    • Thomas B. Nutman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 69

11. Update on traveler’s diarrhea

    • Allen C. Cheng
    • Nathan M. Thielman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 70 - 77

12. Treatment of primary HIV

    • Joanne Stekler
    • Ann Collier

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 87

13. Virologic and immunologic response to highly active antiretroviral therapy

    • Lisa P. Jacobson
    • John P. Phair
    • Traci E. Yamashita

    OriginalPaper Pages: 88 - 96