1. COMMENTARY: The 1855 cholera epidemic in Ferrara: Lessons from old data reanalysed with modern means

   • Jan P. Vandenbroucke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 595 - 598

2. EDITORIAL: Ferrara 1855: Cholera without Epidemiology

   • Alfredo Morabia

   OriginalPaper Pages: 599 - 603

3. COMMENTARY: Alcohol consumption and mortality: Comparison between countries and meta-analyses

   • B. San Jose

   OriginalPaper Pages: 603 - 606

4. REVIEW: Prospects of genetic epidemiology in the 21st century

   • Marieke C.J. Dekker
   • Cornelia M. van Duijn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 607 - 616

5. Sociomedical indicators in the cholera epidemic in Ferrara of 1855

   • Chiara Scapoli
   • Enrica Guidi
   • Pasquale Gregorio

   OriginalPaper Pages: 617 - 622

6. Studying health consequences of microchimerism

   • Jørn Olsen
   • Rita Campi
   • Peter Ebbesen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 623 - 630

7. How stable is the risk curve between alcohol and all-cause mortality and what factors influence the shape? A precision-weighted hierarchical meta-analysis

   • Gerhard Gmel
   • Elisabeth Gutjahr
   • Jürgen Rehm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 631 - 642

8. A comparison of the alcohol-attributable mortality in four European countries

   • A. Britton
   • E. Nolte
   • K. McPherson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 643 - 652

9. Prevalence of obesity in an elderly Hungarian population

   • C. Kiss
   • G. Poór
   • M. Antal

   OriginalPaper Pages: 653 - 658

10. Phenobarbital use and bladder cancer risk

    • J.E. Castelao
    • M. Gago-Dominguez
    • M.C. Yu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 659 - 664

11. Delivery outcome after the use of meclozine in early pregnancy

    • Bengt Källén
    • Isabelle Mottet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 665 - 670

12. Traffic related air pollution and acute hospital admission for respiratory diseases in Drammen, Norway 1995–2000

    • Bente Oftedal
    • Per Nafstad
    • Anders Skrondal

    OriginalPaper Pages: 671 - 676

13. The Swedish coeliac disease epidemic with a prevailing twofold higher risk in girls compared to boys may reflect gender specific risk factors

    • Anneli Ivarsson
    • Lars Åke Persson
    • Olle Hernell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 677 - 684

14. HFE gene mutations an Apulian population: Allele frequencies

    • A. Pietrapertosa
    • A. Vitucci
    • N. Tannoia

    OriginalPaper Pages: 685 - 690

15. Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus antibodies in blood donors from the province of Latina, Italy

    • G. La Torre
    • E. De Vito
    • G. Ricciardi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 691 - 694

16. The prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibodies among the voluntary blood donors of New Delhi, India

    • A. Jain
    • S.S. Rana
    • P. Kar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 695 - 698

17. Outbreaks of food borne diseases in the Lazio region, Italy: The results of epidemiological field investigations

    • A. Faustini
    • P. Giorgi Rossi
    • C.A. Perucci

    OriginalPaper Pages: 699 - 702

18. Comparative study of three different DNA fingerprint techniques for molecular typing of Shigella flexneri strains isolated in Romania

    • Maria Surdeanu
    • Lucia Ciudin
    • Monica Straut

    OriginalPaper Pages: 703 - 710

19. High incidence of G9P[8] rotavirus infections in Italian children during the winter season 1999–2000

    • S. Arista
    • E. Vizzi
    • A. Cascio

    OriginalPaper Pages: 711 - 714

20. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Young Adults (ARYA) study: Rationale and design

    • A. Oren
    • L.E. Vos
    • M.L. Bots

    OriginalPaper Pages: 715 - 728

21. Instructions for Authors

    Instructions for Authors Pages: 729 - 731