Vol. 5 No. 06: June 2011

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Published: 2011-07-04

Emerging Problems in Infectious Diseases

Comparative sequence, antigenic and phylogenetic analysis of avian influenza (H9N2) surface proteins isolated in Pakistan between 1999 and 2008

Azeem Mehmood Butt, Samerene Siddique, Shifa Tahir, Izza Nasrullah, Mureed Hussain, Muhammad Idrees, Jun Lu, Yigang Tong

413-424
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Reviews

Enteroaggregative E. coli O104 from an outbreak of HUS in Germany 2011, could it happen again?

Marie Anne Chattaway, Tim Dallman, Iruka N Okeke, John Wain

425-436
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Outbreak

Escherichia coli (STEC) serotype O104 outbreak causing haemolytic syndrome (HUS) in Germany and France

Salvatore Rubino, Piero Cappuccinelli, David J Kelvin

437-440
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Outbreak of Chikungunya in the Republic of Congo and the global picture

Alyson Ann Kelvin

441-444
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Original Articles

Device-associated infections rates in pediatrics and neonatal intensive care units in El Salvador: Findings of the INICC

Lourdes Dueñas, Ana Bran de Casares, Victor Daniel Rosenthal, Lilian Jesús Machuca

445-451
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Intravascular catheter-related infections in an Indian tertiary care hospital

Ramanathan Parameswaran, Jatan Bahadur Sherchan, Muralidhar Varma D, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Sudha Vidyasagar

452-458
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The presence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection and GM1 ganglioside antibodies in Guillain-Barré syndrome

Mridula B Sharma, Rama Chaudhry, Irum Tabassum, Nishat Hussain Ahmed, Jitendra Kumar Sahu, Benu Dhawan, Veena Kalra

459-464
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Phylogenetic relationship of Salmonella enterica strains in Tehran, Iran, using 16S rRNA and gyrB gene sequences

Mercedeh Tajbakhsh, Babak Noory Nayer, Kamyar Motavaze, Pedram Kharaziha, Mohsen Chiani, Mohammad Reza Zali, John David Klena

465-472
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Analysis of interleukin-10 gene polymorphisms and hepatitis C susceptibility in Pakistan

Muhammad Sohail Afzal, Sadia Tahir, Amna Salman, Tahir Ahmed Baig, Talha Shafi, Najm Us Sahar Sadaf Zaidi, Ishtiaq Qadri

473-479
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Brief Original Articles

Identification of feline immunodeficiency virus subtype-B on St. Kitts, West Indies by quantitative PCR

Patrick J Kelly, Ruey Stocking, Dongya Gao, Nikol Phillips, Chuanling Xu, Bernhard Kaltenboeck, Chengming Wang

480-483
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Letters to the Editor

Plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance by genes qnrA1 and qnrB19 in Salmonella strains isolated in Brazil

Rafaela Ferrari, Antonio Galiana, Rosa Cremades, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, Marciane Magnani, Maria Cristina B Tognim, Tereza C R M Oliveira, Gloria Royo

496-498
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Isolation frequency and susceptibility patterns of Nocardia species at a tertiary hospital laboratory in Karachi, Pakistan

Safia Bibi, Seema Irfan, Afia Zafar, Erum Khan

499-501
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Case Reports

Human T Lymphotropic virus-1 associated gastrointestinal histoplasmosis in Peru

Carlos Canelo-Aybar, Jose Cuadra-Urteaga, Fernando Atencia, Franco Romani

484-488
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Neonatal Plasmodium vivax malaria: an overlooked entity

Akanksha Gandhi, Kirti Garg, Neelam Wadhwa

489-492
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae oesophagitis in a patient with oesophageal carcinoma

Dimas Alexandre Kliemann, Vicente Sperb Antonello, Luis Carlos Severo, Alessandro Comarú Pasqualotto

493-495
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