Annals ofInfectology

Volume: 8 - Number: 84 - April 15, 2008

Outstanding

Balancing Maternal and Infant Benefits and the Consequences of Breast-Feeding in the Developing World during the Era of HIV Infection

Medical Microbiology: New Consensus Guidelines from the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Infrequently Isolated or Fastidious Bacteria

Candidemia in Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices

Impact of Antibiotics on Expression of Virulence-Associated Exotoxin Genes in Methicillin-Sensitive and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Brief Reports

Healthcare Epidemiology: Use of Prediction Markets to Forecast Infectious Disease Activity

Editorial commentaries

Learning from the 2001 Anthrax Attacks: Immunological Characteristics

Balancing Maternal and Infant Benefits and the Consequences of Breast-Feeding in the Developing World during the Era of HIV Infection

Malaria Vaccines Based on the Plasmodium falciparum Merozoite Surface Protein 3—Should We Avoid Amino Acid Sequence Polymorphisms or Embrace Them?

Electronic articles

Abdominal Abscesses Due to Actinomycosis after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Case Reports and Review

The Relationship between Previous Fluoroquinolone Use and Levofloxacin Resistance in Helicobacter pylori Infection

Candidemia in Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices

A Case Report and Literature Review of Portal Vein Thrombosis Associated with Cytomegalovirus Infection in Immunocompetent Patients

HIV/AIDS

Mortality among Participants in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and the Women’s Interagency HIV Study

Weight and Body Shape Changes in a Treatment-Naive Population after 6 Months of Nevirapine-Based Generic Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in South India

Epidemiologic Investigation of a Cluster of Workplace HIV Infections in the Adult Film Industry: Los Angeles, California, 2004

Major articles and brief reports de Bacteria

The US Capitol Bioterrorism Anthrax Exposures: Clinical Epidemiological and Immunological Characteristics

Mucosal Delivery of a Pneumococcal Vaccine Using Lactococcus lactis Affords Protection against Respiratory Infection

Isoniazid’s Bactericidal Activity Ceases because of the Emergence of Resistance, Not Depletion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Log Phase of Growth

Impact of Antibiotics on Expression of Virulence-Associated Exotoxin Genes in Methicillin-Sensitive and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Up-Regulation of Host Cell Genes during Interferon-?–Induced Persistent Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection in HL Cells

Major articles and brief reports HIV/Aids

HIV-1 Disease Progression in Breast-Feeding and Formula-Feeding Mothers: A Prospective 2-Year Comparison of T Cell Subsets, HIV-1 RNA Levels, and Mortality

Photo Quiz

An Elderly Man Receiving Hemodialysis Who Had Diarrhea, Weight Loss, and Liver Mass: (Answer on pages 306–9)

Viewpoints

Medical Microbiology: New Consensus Guidelines from the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Infrequently Isolated or Fastidious Bacteria