1. Inhibitory effect of oral administration of Lactobacillus casei on 3-methylcholanthrene-induced carcinogenesis in mice

   • Akimitsu Takagi
   • Takeshi Matsuzaki
   • Teruo Yokokura

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 111 - 116

2. Candidacidal activity of shortened synthetic analogs of amoebapores and NK-lysin

   • Jörg Andrä
   • Matthias Leippe

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 117 - 124

3. Loss of pathogenic potential after cloning of the low-passage Borrelia burgdorferi ZS7 tick isolate: a cautionary note

   • Annette Siebers
   • Weimin Zhong
   • Markus M. Simon

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 125 - 130

4. One-step polymerase chain reaction-based typing of Helicobacter pylori vacA gene: association with gastric histopathology

   • Shan-Rui Han
   • Thomas Schneider
   • Markus J. Maeurer

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 131 - 138

5. An improved recombinant IgG immunoblot for serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis

   • Bettina Wilske
   • Christiane Habermann
   • Ulrike Schulte-Spechtel

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 139 - 144

6. Coexistence of ehrlichiae of the phagocytophila group with Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ricinus from Southern Germany

   • V. Fingerle
   • U. G. Munderloh
   • B. Wilske

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 145 - 149

7. Anti-recombinant V antigen serum promotes uptake of Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O8 by macrophages

   • Andreas Roggenkamp
   • Lorenz Leitritz
   • Jürgen Heesemann

   ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Pages: 151 - 159