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The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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Volume 67 (2002): Issue 2 (Aug 2002)

Publication Date:
01 Aug 2002
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Mining the natural world for new pathogens.
By: David A Relman
First molecular evidence of new Bartonella spp. in fleas and a tick from Peru.
By: Philippe Parola, Stanislav Shpynov, Manuel Montoya, Martha Lopez, Pierre Houpikian, Zaher Zeaiter, Humberto Guerra, and Didier Raoult
Relationship between parasite density and fever risk in a community exposed to a low level of malaria transmission in Madagascar highlands.
By: P Boisier, R Jambou, L Raharimalala, and J Roux
Comparison of field and expert laboratory microscopy for active surveillance for asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in western Thailand.
By: Russell E Coleman, Nongnuj Maneechai, Nattawan Rachaphaew, Chalermpol Kumpitak, R Scott Miller, Virat Soyseng, Krongthong Thimasarn, and Jetsumon Sattabongkot
Predicting the prevalence of antibody to hepatitis C virus (HCV) in a community by the prevalence of elevated levels of alanine aminotransferase: a method to identify areas endemic for HCV.
By: Sheng-Nan Lu, Jing-Houng Wang, Yung-Kuang Kuo, Hsiu-Lin Kuo, Tsung-Ming Chen, Hung-Da Tung, Chuan-Mo Lee, and Shinn-Chern Chen
Clinical outcomes of hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes B and C in Japanese patients with chronic HBV infection.
By: Norihiro Furusyo, Hisashi Nakashima, Kenichiro Kashiwagi, Norihiko Kubo, Kazuhiro Hayashida, Sadakazu Usuda, Shunji Mishiro, Seizaburo Kashiwagi, and Jun Hayashi
Persistence of dengue-3 virus through transovarial transmission passage in successive generations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
By: Vinod Joshi, D T Mourya, and R C Sharma
Scrub typhus in Japan: epidemiology and clinical features of cases reported in 1998.
By: Motohiko Ogawa, Toshikatsu Hagiwara, Toshio Kishimoto, Sadashi Shiga, Yoshiya Yoshida, Yumiko Furuya, Ikuo Kaiho, Tadahiko Ito, Haruyasu Nemoto, Norishige Yamamoto, and Kunihiko Masukawa
Polymerase chain reaction-based diagnosis of Mediterranean spotted fever in serum and tissue samples.
By: Moshe Leitner, Shmuel Yitzhaki, Sabine Rzotkiewicz, and Avi Keysary
Prevalence of antibody to Chlamydia pneumoniae in residents of Japan, the Solomon Islands, and Nepal.
By: Chie Shimizu, Shigeki Nabeshima, Kensuke Kikuchi, Norihiro Furusyo, Seizaburo Kashiwagi, and Jun Hayashi
Geographic distribution of Triatoma dimidiata and transmission dynamics of Trypanosoma cruzi in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico.
By: Eric Dumonteil, Sebastien Gourbière, Mario Barrera-Pérez, Eugenia Rodriguez-Félix, Hugo Ruiz-Piña, Othón Baños-Lopez, María Jesús Ramirez-Sierra, Frédéric Menu, and Jorge E Rabinovich
Inhibition of intracellular proliferation of Leishmania parasites in vitro and suppression of skin lesion development in BALB/c mice by a novel lipid A analog (ONO-4007).
By: Mohammed A K Khan, Motoyoshi Maruno, Noor M Khaskhely, Saeef T Ramzi, Atsushi Hosokawa, Hiroshi Uezato, Eduardo A Gomez Landires, Yoshihisa Hashiguchi, and Shigeo Nonaka
Repellency of live potted plants against Anopheles gambiae from human baits in semi-field experimental huts.
By: Aklilu Seyoum, Ephantus W Kabiru, Wilber Lwande, Gerry F Killeen, Ahmed Hassanali, and Bart G J Knols
The impact of single-dose diethylcarbamazine treatment of bancroftian filariasis in a low-endemicity setting in Egypt.
By: Reda M R Ramzy, Maged el-Setouhy, Hanan Helmy, Amr M Kandil, Ehab S Ahmed, Hoda A Farid, Rifky Faris, and Gary J Weil
Helicobacter pylori infection in Kazakhstan: effect of water source and household hygiene.
By: Zhannat Z Nurgalieva, Hoda M Malaty, David Y Graham, R Almuchambetova, A Machmudova, D Kapsultanova, Michael S Osato, F Blaine Hollinger, and Abai Zhangabylov
Beliefs and attitudes toward Buruli ulcer in Ghana.
By: Ymkje Stienstra, Winette T A van der Graaf, Kwame Asamoa, and Tjip S van der Werf
Ectopic localization of tungiasis.
By: Jörg Heukelbach, Thomas Wilcke, Margit Eisele, and Hermann Feldmeier
Bothrops moojeni snake venom-induced renal glomeruli changes in rat.
By: Patrícia Aline Boer-Lima, José Antonio Rocha Gontijo, and Maria Alice Cruz-Höfling
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