1. Hydrophobic attachment of Trypanosoma cruzi to a superficial layer of the rectal cuticle in the bug Triatoma infestans

   • J. Schmidt
   • T. Kleffmann
   • G. A. Schaub

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 527 - 536

2. Natural Ascaris suum infections in swine diagnosed by coprological and serological (ELISA) methods

   • A. Roepstorff

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 537 - 543

3. Characteristic genotypes discriminate between Babesia canis isolates of differing vector specificity and pathogenicity to dogs

   • Monika Zahler
   • Eberhard Schein
   • Rainer Gothe

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 544 - 548

4. A fast and inexpensive method for isolation of high-quality RNA from eimerian oocysts

   • D. A. Johnston
   • J. Bratty
   • M. A. Fernando

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 549 - 551

5. Plasmodium chabaudi chabaudi and P. falciparum : inhibition of aminopeptidase and parasite growth by bestatin and nitrobestatin

   • M. F. Nankya-Kitaka
   • G. P. Curley
   • J. P. Dalton

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 552 - 558

6. Detection of parasites with DNA-binding bisbenzimide H33258 in Pneumocystis carinii - and Leishmania -containing materials

   • Ulrike Laube
   • Albrecht F. Kiderlen

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 559 - 564

7. Specificity of isoelectric focusing-purified antigens in the diagnosis of human cysticercosis

   • R. C. Ko
   • T. F. Ng

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 565 - 569

8. Estimation of the mutagenic potential of the trematode Opisthorchis felineus in experimentally infected guinea pigs

   • E. N. Ilyinskikh
   • A. V. Lepyehin
   • N. N. Ilyinskikh

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 570 - 572

9. Uptake of lead by Pomphorhynchus laevis cystacanths in Gammarus pulex and immature worms in chub (Leuciscus cephalus)

   • R. Siddall
   • B. Sures

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 573 - 577

10. Amplification of genomic DNA fragments of Sarcocystis muris (Apicomplexa) cyst merozoites encoding a thiol (cysteine) proteinase

    • Thomas Hansner
    • Bernd Freyer
    • Wolfgang Rüger

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 578 - 582

11. Isolation and characterization of cDNA clones encoding a 32-kDa dense-granule antigen of Sarcocystis muris (Apicomplexa)

    • Bernd Freyer
    • Karl Heinz Eschenbacher
    • Wolfgang Rueger

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 583 - 589

12. Correlation between aerobic and anaerobic resistance to metronidazole in trichomonads: application of a new computer program for permutation tests

    • Jaroslav Flegr
    • Pavel Záboj
    • Štěpánka Vaňáčová

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 590 - 592

13. Evidence for strain specificity in cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-mediated, major histocompatibility complex class I-dependent killing of Theileria annulata-infected cells

    • G. Conze
    • J. D. M. Campbell
    • J. S. Ahmed

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 593 - 595

14. DNA extraction from Ascaris suum muscle tissue

    • Carmela Di Mito
    • Bruno Betschart

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 596 - 597

15. Echinococcus granulosus : preparation of protein extracts from protoscolex nuclei for mobility-shift assays

    • Beatriz Garat
    • Patricia Esperón
    • Ricardo Ehrlich

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 598 - 600