1. Do we believe what patients say about their neoplastic symptoms?

   • Miquel Porta
   • Núria Malats
   • Esteve Fernandez

   OriginalPaper Pages: 553 - 562

2. Trends of the characteristics and appropriateness of admissions to acute geriatric and medical wards in Italy from 1988 through 1993

   • Marco Pahor
   • Luciana Carosella
   • Pierugo Carbonin for the Gruppo Italiano di Farmacovigilanza nell'Anziano - GIFA

   OriginalPaper Pages: 563 - 571

3. Marital status as a predictor of survival in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: The Washington, DC dilated cardiomyopathy study

   • Catherine Metayer
   • Steven S. Coughlin
   • Ellen P. McCarthy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 573 - 582

4. Factors associated with asthma in school children

   • Mohamed A. A. Moussa
   • Mofeed B. Skaik
   • Salem A. Bin-Othman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 583 - 588

5. Possible correlation between low antigenic drift of A(H1N1) influenza viruses and induction of HI antibodies

   • Anna Maria Iorio
   • Tiziana Zei
   • Adriano Alatri

   OriginalPaper Pages: 589 - 594

6. Prevalence of dementia among elderly people in Troina, Sicily

   • Roberto D'Alessandro
   • Giuseppe Pandolfo
   • Francesco Saverio Feruglio

   OriginalPaper Pages: 595 - 599

7. Population-based study of emergency department admissions and deaths from injuries in Barcelona, Spain: Incidence, causes and severity

   • Antoni Plasència
   • Carme Borrell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 601 - 610

8. Evaluation of prenatal diagnosis of congenital gastro-intestinal atresias

   • C. Stoll
   • Y. Alembik
   • M. P. Roth

   OriginalPaper Pages: 611 - 616

9. Subjectively experienced symptoms in relation to socio-economic factors in women

   • B. Furunes
   • C. Bengtsson
   • L. Lapidus

   OriginalPaper Pages: 617 - 624

10. Epidemiology of human T-lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II) infection in Spain

    • V. Soriano
    • A. Vallejo
    • The HTLV Spanish Study Group

    OriginalPaper Pages: 625 - 629

11. Periodontal disease, oral microbial flora and salivary antibacterial factors in diabetes mellitus type 1 patients

    • G. Pinducciu
    • L. Micheletti
    • L. Pintus

    OriginalPaper Pages: 631 - 636

12. Molecular and phage typing of Staphylococcus aureus harbouring cyrptic conjugative plasmids

    • E. E. Udo
    • W. B. Grubb

    OriginalPaper Pages: 637 - 641

13. Evaluation of penicillin susceptibility in clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae oxacillin resistant

    • Adriana Mosca
    • Raffaele Del Prete
    • Giuseppe Miragliotta

    OriginalPaper Pages: 643 - 645

14. The modification in measles vaccination age as a consequence of the earlier decline of transplacentally transferred antimeasles antibodies in Turkish infants

    • D. U. Altintasş
    • N. Evliyaoglu
    • S. Güneşer

    Brief Report Pages: 647 - 648

15. Detection of Brucella melitensis by BACTEC NR 730 and BACTEC 9120 systems

    • Suna Gedikoglu
    • Safiye Helvaci
    • Kaya Kiliçturgay

    Brief Report Pages: 649 - 650

16. Neisseria gonorrhoeae RNA/DNA hybridization and culture for screening of gonococcal infections in a low-prevalence population

    • Patrice Sednaoui
    • Jean-Elie Malkin
    • Jean-Michel Alonso

    Brief Report Pages: 651 - 654

17. Tetanus and injections drug use: Rediscovery of a neglected problem?

    • Giovanni Rezza
    • Renato Pizzuti
    • David Vlahov

    Letter to the Editor Pages: 655 - 656

18. Changing incidence of peptic ulcer in Germany

    • S. P. Mönig
    • F. Brands

    Letter to the Editor Pages: 657 - 658

19. A cluster of cancer deaths among wastewater treatment workers

    • Susanna Lagorio
    • Marco De Santis
    • Pietro Comba

    Letter to the Editor Pages: 659 - 660