EDITORIAL
	The expanding role of common respiratory viruses in human disease
	Anna Maria Geretti
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 443-445. [Full Text] [PDF]

REVIEWS
	Five postulates for resolving outbreaks of infectious disease
	Philip P. Mortimer
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 447-451. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Development of acquired immunity to Salmonella
	Pietro Mastroeni, and Nathalie Ménager
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 453-459. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

PATHOGENICITY AND VIRULENCE
	NapA protects Helicobacter pylori from oxidative stress damage, and its production is influenced by the ferric uptake regulator
	Clare Cooksley, Peter J. Jenks, Andrew Green, Alan Cockayne, Robert P. H. Logan, and Kim R. Hardie
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 461-469. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Colour version of Fig. 5]
	Crystallization of urine mineral components may depend on the chemical nature of Proteus endotoxin polysaccharides
	Agnieszka Torzewska, Pawel Staczek, and Antoni Rózalski
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 471-477. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Biosynthesis of chondroitinase and hyaluronidase by different strains of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
	C. M. de Assis, R. F. Gandra, W. Gambale, M. T. Shimizu, and C. R. Paula
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 479-481. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Halo formation]
	Lysogeny and bacteriophage host range within the Burkholderia cepacia complex
	Ross Langley, Dervla T. Kenna, Peter Vandamme, Rebecca Ure, and John R. W. Govan
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 483-490. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Incidence of virulence determinants in clinical Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis isolates collected in Sardinia (Italy)
	I. Duprè, S. Zanetti, A. M. Schito, G. Fadda, and L. A. Sechi
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 491-498. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

DIAGNOSTICS, TYPING AND IDENTIFICATION
	Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of attaching and effacing Escherichia coli (AEEC) isolated from children with and without diarrhoea in Londrina, Brazil
	Eliane Blanco Nunes, Halha Ostrensky Saridakis, Kinue Irino, and Jacinta Sanchez Pelayo
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 499-504. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Nucleotide sequence-based typing of meningococci directly from clinical samples
	Mathew A. Diggle, Carolyn M. Bell, and Stuart C. Clarke
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 505-508. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Evaluation of selective media for the isolation of Brachyspira aalborgi from human faeces
	C. Josephine Brooke, Thomas V. Riley, and David J. Hampson
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 509-513. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

EPIDEMIOLOGY
	Tracing clonality of Helicobacter pylori infecting family members from analysis of DNA sequences of three housekeeping genes (ureI, atpA and ahpC), deduced amino acid sequences, and pathogenicity-associated markers (cagA and vacA)
	Robert J. Owen, and Jacqueline Xerry
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 515-524. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Increasing incidence of group A streptococcal infections amongst injecting drug users in England and Wales
	Androulla Efstratiou, Michaela Emery, Theresa L. Lamagni, Asha Tanna, Marina Warner, and Robert C. George
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 525-526. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]

CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND VIROLOGY
	Molecular comparison of bacterial isolates from blood with strains colonizing pharynx and intestine in immunocompromised patients with sepsis
	Koichi Murono, Yoshiki Hirano, Shin Koyano, Kiminari Ito, and Kenji Fujieda
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 527-530. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

MODELS OF INFECTION
	Role of elastase in a mouse model of chronic respiratory Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection that mimics diffuse panbronchiolitis
	Katsunori Yanagihara, Kazunori Tomono, Yukihiro Kaneko, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki, Kazuhiro Tsukamoto, Yoichi Hirakata, Hiroshi Mukae, Jun-ichi Kadota, Ikuo Murata, and Shigeru Kohno
	J Med Microbiol 2003. 52: 531-535. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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