IDR - Immune Diagnostics & Research

Vol 5, No 06

June 2011

Table of Contents

Emerging Problems in Infectious Diseases

Comparative sequence, antigenic and phylogenetic analysis of avian influenza (H9N2) surface proteins isolated in Pakistan between 1999 and 2008 PDF
Azeem Mehmood Butt, Samerene Siddique, Shifa Tahir, Izza Nasrullah, Mureed Hussain, Muhammad Idrees, Jun Lu, Yigang Tong 413-424

Review Articles

Enteroaggregative E. coli O104 from an outbreak of HUS in Germany 2011, could it happen again? PDF
Marie Anne Chattaway, Tim Dallman, Iruka N Okeke, John Wain 425-436

Outbreak

Escherichia coli (STEC) serotype O104 outbreak causing haemolytic syndrome (HUS) in Germany and France PDF
Salvatore Rubino, Piero Cappuccinelli, David J Kelvin 437-440
Outbreak of Chikungunya in the Republic of Congo and the global picture PDF
Alyson Ann Kelvin 441-444

Original Articles

Device-associated infections rates in pediatrics and neonatal intensive care units in El Salvador: Findings of the INICC PDF
Lourdes Dueñas, Ana Bran de Casares, Victor Daniel Rosenthal, Lilian Jesús Machuca 445-451
Intravascular catheter-related infections in an Indian tertiary care hospital PDF
Ramanathan Parameswaran, Jatan Bahadur Sherchan, Muralidhar Varma D, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Sudha Vidyasagar 452-458
The presence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection and GM1 ganglioside antibodies in Guillain-Barré syndrome PDF
Mridula B Sharma, Rama Chaudhry, Irum Tabassum, Nishat Hussain Ahmed, Jitendra Kumar Sahu, Benu Dhawan, Veena Kalra 459-464
Phylogenetic relationship of Salmonella enterica strains in Tehran, Iran, using 16S rRNA and gyrB gene sequences PDF
Mercedeh Tajbakhsh, Babak Noory Nayer, Kamyar Motavaze, Pedram Kharaziha, Mohsen Chiani, Mohammad Reza Zali, John David Klena 465-472
Analysis of interleukin-10 gene polymorphisms and hepatitis C susceptibility in Pakistan PDF
Muhammad Sohail Afzal, Sadia Tahir, Amna Salman, Tahir Ahmed Baig, Talha Shafi, Najm Us Sahar Sadaf Zaidi, Ishtiaq Qadri 473-479

Brief Original Articles

Identification of feline immunodeficiency virus subtype-B on St. Kitts, West Indies by quantitative PCR PDF
Patrick J Kelly, Ruey Stocking, Dongya Gao, Nikol Phillips, Chuanling Xu, Bernhard Kaltenboeck, Chengming Wang 480-483

Case Reports

Human T Lymphotropic virus-1 associated gastrointestinal histoplasmosis in Peru PDF
Carlos Canelo-Aybar, Jose Cuadra-Urteaga, Fernando Atencia, Franco Romani 484-488
Neonatal Plasmodium vivax malaria: an overlooked entity PDF
Akanksha Gandhi, Kirti Garg, Neelam Wadhwa 489-492
Saccharomyces cerevisiae oesophagitis in a patient with oesophageal carcinoma PDF
Dimas Alexandre Kliemann, Vicente Sperb Antonello, Luis Carlos Severo, Alessandro Comarú Pasqualotto 493-495

Letters to the Editor

Plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance by genes qnrA1 and qnrB19 in Salmonella strains isolated in Brazil PDF
Rafaela Ferrari, Antonio Galiana, Rosa Cremades, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, Marciane Magnani, Maria Cristina B Tognim, Tereza C R M Oliveira, Gloria Royo 496-498
Isolation frequency and susceptibility patterns of Nocardia species at a tertiary hospital laboratory in Karachi, Pakistan PDF
Safia Bibi, Seema Irfan, Afia Zafar, Erum Khan 499-501