1. Klaus Schwarz Medalists of 1996

   • Gerhard N. Schrauzer

   Announcement Pages: v - vi

2. Preface

   • Gerhard N. Schrauzer

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 2

3. Introduction

   • Ludwick Gross

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 4

4. Interacting nutritional and infectious etiologies of Keshan disease

   • Orville A. Levander
   • Melinda A. Beck

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 21

5. RNA virus evolution, population dynamics, and nutritional status

   • Esteban Domingo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 30

6. Serum selenium versus lymphocyte subsets and markers of disease progression and inflammatory response in human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection

   • Markus P. Look
   • Jürgen K. Rockstroh
   • Tilman Sauerbruch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 41

7. The distribution of selenium and mortality owing to acquired immune deficiency syndrome in the continental United States

   • U. M. Cowgill

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 61

8. Genomic structures of viral agents in relation to the biosynthesis of selenoproteins

   • Ethan Will Taylor
   • Ram Gopal Nadimpalli
   • Chandra Sekar Ramanathan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 91

9. Computational genomic analysis of hemorrhagic fever viruses

   • Chandra Sekar Ramanathan
   • Ethan Will Taylor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 106

10. Reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide in viral diseases

    • Ernst Peterhans

    OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 116

11. Protective role of selenium against hepatitis B virus and primary liver cancer in Qidong

    • Shu Yu Yu
    • Ya Jun Zhu
    • Wen Gang Li

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 124

12. Inhibitory effect of selenite and other antioxidants on complement-mediated tissue injury in patients with epidemic hemorrhagic fever

    • Jian -Cun Hou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 130

13. Possibilities of a viral etiology for human breast cancer

    • Beatriz G. -T. Pogo
    • James F. Holland

    ReviewPaper Pages: 131 - 142