1. Results of a questionnaire about nurse students' smoking habits and knowledges in an Italian teaching school of nursing

   • E. Boccoli
   • A. Federici
   • E. De Paola

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 3

2. Persistence of immunity to poliomyelitis among a southern population that received four doses of OPV 5 to over 15 years before

   • M. Triassi
   • G. Ribera
   • M. E. Grandolfo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 8

3. Unusual features in the epidemiology of Lyme borreliosis

   • L. Angelov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 11

4. Prevalence and characteristics of human and bovine verotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains isolated in Galicia (north-western Spain)

   • M. Blanco
   • J. E. Blanco
   • W. H. Jansen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 19

5. Prevalence of hepatitis B and C viruses infection in chronic alcoholics with or without liver disease in Ioannina, Greece: Low incidence of HCV infection

   • Georgios N. Dalekos
   • Eleftheria Zervou
   • Epameinondas V. Tsianos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 25

6. HIV-1, HIV-2, HTLV-I/II and STD among female prostitutes in Buenos Aires, Argentina

   • I. Zapiola
   • S. Salomone
   • G. Muchinik

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 31

7. Hyalohyphomycosis caused by Paecilomyces variotii in an obstetrical patient

   • M. A. Athar
   • A. S. Sekhon
   • R. M. Malone

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 35

8. Prenatal care and prevention of preterm birth

   • Montserrat Gómez-Olmedo
   • Miguel Delgado-Rodriguez
   • Ramón Gálvez-Vargas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 44

9. HCV transmission in family members of subjects with HCV related chronic liver disease

   • L. Demelia
   • E. Vallebona
   • R. C. Coppola

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 50

10. Staphylococcus saprophyticus urinary tract infections: epidemiological data from Western Australia

    • Paul F. Schneider
    • Thomas V. Riley

    OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 54

11. A new method of antibiotyping yeasts for subspecies discrimination and distribution in human clinical specimens

    • Guillermo Quindós
    • Verónica Lipperheide
    • José Pontón

    OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 62

12. Genetic reassortment in pandemic and interpandemic influenza viruses

    • L. P. Shu
    • G. B. Sharp
    • R. G. Webster

    OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 70

13. Distribution and population determinants of gamma-glutamyltransferase in a random sample of Sardinian inhabitants

    • Franco Pintus
    • Patrizia Mascia
    • ATS-SARDEGNA research group

    OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 76

14. Syphilis and blood donors: Comparison of two different diagnostic strategies

    • M. M. D'Errico
    • M. Mariottini
    • F. Carle

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 80

15. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli associated diarrhoea among infants aged less than six months in Calcutta, India

    • A. R. Ghosh
    • H. Koley
    • D. Sen

    Brief Report Pages: 81 - 84

16. Serological examination of human and animal sera from six countries of three continents for the presence of rickettsial antibodies

    • E. Kováčová
    • W. Sixl
    • J. Kazár

    Brief Report Pages: 85 - 89

17. Injecting drug use as risk factor for visceral leishmaniasis in AIDS patients

    • C. Amela
    • D. López-Gay
    • J. Castilla

    Brief Report Pages: 91 - 92

18. Outpatient morbidity in Slavonski Brod during 1991/1992 war in Croatia

    • Hrvoje Tiljak

    Report on Eastern Europe Pages: 93 - 99

19. On the origin of mass casualty incidents in Kosovo, Yugoslavia, in 1990

    • Z. Radovanovic

    Report on Eastern Europe Pages: 101 - 113

20. Respiratory symptoms in children of Upper Silesia, Poland: Cross-sectional study in two towns of different air pollution levels

    • J. E. Zejda
    • M. Skiba
    • B. Cimander

    Report on Eastern Europe Pages: 115 - 120