Editorials:

James W. Kazura

Challenges and Initiatives for the ASTMH’s Journal: 2008 and Beyond
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 1. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Perspective:

Weidong Gu, Jürg Utzinger, AND Robert J. Novak

Habitat-Based Larval Interventions: A New Perspective for Malaria Control
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 2-6. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Images in Clinical Tropical Medicine:

Surendra K. Sharma AND Tamilarasu Kadhiravan

Spontaneous Splenic Rupture in Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 7. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clinical Tropical Medicine:

Tun-Chieh Chen, Po-Liang Lu, Yen-Hsu Chen, Jih-Jin Tsai, AND Tyen-Po Chen

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Complicated with Acute Idiopathic Scrotal Edema and Polyneuropathy
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 8-10. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sung-Nan Pei, Chen-Hsiang Lee, AND Jien-Wei Liu

Hemophagocytic Syndrome in a Patient with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and Acute Disseminated Penicilliosis
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 11-13. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dusan Lalosevic, Vesna Lalosevic, Istvan Klem, Dusica Stanojev-Jovanovic, AND Edoardo Pozio

Pulmonary Capillariasis Miming Bronchial Carcinoma
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 14-16. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Elliot Carter AND Kenneth C. Whithaus

Neonatal Respiratory Tract Involvement by Trichomonas vaginalis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 17-19. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hung-Chin Tsai, Li-Yu Chung, Eng-Rin Chen, Yung-Ching Liu, Susan Shin-Jung Lee, Yao-Shen Chen, Cheng-Len Sy, Shue-Ren Wann, AND Chuan-Min Yen

Association of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 and Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinase-4 in Cerebrospinal Fluid with Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Patients with Eosinophilic Meningitis Caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 20-27. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gerusa Dreyer, Renato Lins, Joaquim Norões, José Ângelo Rizzo, AND José Figueredo-Silva

Sensitivity of the Immunochromatographic Card Test Relative to Detection of Adult Wuchereria bancrofti Worms by Ultrasound
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 28-34. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeffrey L. Jones, Deanna Kruszon-Moran, Kimberly Won, Marianna Wilson, AND Peter M. Schantz

Toxoplasma gondii and Toxocara spp. Co-infection
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 35-39. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hubert Barennes, Somphou Sayasone, Peter Odermatt, Aymeric De Bruyne, Sitthivone Hongsakhone, Paul N. Newton, Phengta Vongphrachanh, Bertrand Martinez-Aussel, Michel Strobel, AND Jean Dupouy-Camet

A Major Trichinellosis Outbreak Suggesting a High Endemicity of Trichinella Infection in Northern Laos
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 40-44. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research Articles:

Carrie F. Nielsen, William K. Reisen, M. Veronica Armijos, N. James MacLachlan, AND Thomas W. Scott

High Subclinical West Nile Virus Incidence among Nonvaccinated Horses in Northern California Associated with Low Vector Abundance and Infection
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 45-52. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carrie F. Nielsen, M. Veronica Armijos, Sarah Wheeler, Tim E. Carpenter, Walter M. Boyce, Kara Kelley, David Brown, Thomas W. Scott, AND William K. Reisen

Risk Factors Associated with Human Infection during the 2006 West Nile Virus Outbreak in Davis, a Residential Community in Northern California
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 53-62. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stephanie S. Groves, Michael J. Turell, Charles L. Bailey, AND Victor N. Morozov

Rapid Active Assay for the Detection of Antibodies to West Nile Virus in Chickens
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 63-69. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pattamaporn Kittayapong, Sutee Yoksan, Uruyakorn Chansang, Chitti Chansang, AND Amaret Bhumiratana

Suppression of Dengue Transmission by Application of Integrated Vector Control Strategies at Sero-Positive GIS-Based Foci
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 70-76. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rosemary C. Sang, Ouledi Ahmed, Ousmane Faye, Cindy L. H. Kelly, Ali Ahmed Yahaya, Ibrahim Mmadi, Ali Toilibou, Kibet Sergon, Jennifer Brown, Naftali Agata, Allarangar Yakouide, Mamadou D. Ball, Robert F. Breiman, Barry R. Miller, AND Ann M. Powers

Entomologic Investigations of a Chikungunya Virus Epidemic in the Union of the Comoros, 2005
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 77-82. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cristina T. Rosas, Slobodan Paessler, Haolin Ni, AND Nikolaus Osterrieder

Protection of Mice by Equine Herpesvirus Type 1–Based Experimental Vaccine against Lethal Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Infection in the Absence of Neutralizing Antibodies
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 83-92. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicole C. Arrigo, Douglas M. Watts, Ilya Frolov, AND Scott C. Weaver

Experimental Infection of Aedes sollicitans and Aedes taeniorhynchus with Two Chimeric Sindbis/Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus Vaccine Candidates
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 93-97. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jia-Fu Jiang, Shu-Qing Zuo, Wen-Yi Zhang, Xiao-Ming Wu, Fang Tang, Sake J. De Vlas, Wen-Juan Zhao, Pan-He Zhang, Zhe Dun, Ri-Ming Wang, AND Wu-Chun Cao

Prevalence and Genetic Diversities of Hantaviruses in Rodents in Beijing, China
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 98-105. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Heiko Becher, Gisela Kynast-Wolf, Ali Sié, Robert Ndugwa, Heribert Ramroth, Bocar Kouyaté, AND Olaf Müller

Patterns of Malaria: Cause-Specific and All-Cause Mortality in a Malaria-Endemic Area of West Africa
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 106-113. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Godfree Mlambo, Yessika Vasquez, Ralph LeBlanc, David Sullivan, AND Nirbhay Kumar

A Filter Paper Method for the Detection of Plasmodium falciparum Gametocytes by Reverse Transcription–Polymerase Chain Reaction
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 114-116. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chul-Min Kim, Lidia Beatriz Conza Blanco, Andy Alhassan, Hiroshi Iseki, Naoaki Yokoyama, Xuenan Xuan, AND Ikuo Igarashi

Development of a Rapid Immunochromatographic Test for Simultaneous Serodiagnosis of Bovine Babesioses Caused by Babesia bovis and Babesia bigemina
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 117-121. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tiago Moreno Castilho, Luís Marcelo Aranha Camargo, Diane McMahon-Pratt, Jeffrey Jon Shaw, AND Lucile Maria Floeter-Winter

A Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for the Identification and Quantification of American Leishmania Species on the Basis of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 122-132. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sébastien Gourbière, Eric Dumonteil, Jorge E. Rabinovich, Raissa Minkoue, AND Frédéric Menu

Demographic and Dispersal Constraints for Domestic Infestation by Non-Domicilated Chagas Disease Vectors in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 133-139. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin Johannes Enk, Anna Carolina Lustosa Lima, Cristiano Lara Massara, Paulo Marcos Zech Coelho, AND Virginia Torres Schall

A Combined Strategy to Improve the Control of Schistosoma mansoni in Areas of Low Prevalence in Brazil
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 140-146. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mario A. Rodríguez-Pérez, Cristian Lizarazo-Ortega, Hassan K. Hassan, Alfredo Domínguez-Vásquez, Jorge Méndez-Galván, Patricia Lugo-Moreno, Mauricio Sauerbrey, Frank Richards, Jr., AND Thomas R. Unnasch

Evidence for Suppression of Onchocerca volvulus Transmission in the Oaxaca Focus in Mexico
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 147-152. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Els Mathieu, Josef Amann, Abel Eigege, Frank Richards, AND Yao Sodahlon

Collecting Baseline Information for National Morbidity Alleviation Programs: Different Methods to Estimate Lymphatic Filariasis Morbidity Prevalence
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 153-158. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maiko Hasegawa, Nobuko Tuno, Nguyen Thi Yen, Vu Sinh Nam, AND Masahiro Takagi

Influence of the Distribution of Host Species on Adult Abundance of Japanese Encephalitis Vectors—Culex vishnui Subgroup and Culex gelidus—in a Rice-Cultivating Village in Northern Vietnam
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 159-168. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maria Calzetta, Federica Santolamazza, Gian Carlo Carrara, Pedro J. Cani, Filomeno Fortes, Maria Angela Di Deco, Alessandra della Torre, AND Vincenzo Petrarca

Distribution and Chromosomal Characterization of the Anopheles gambiae Complex in Angola
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 169-175. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aristeidis Parmakelis, Michael A. Russello, Adalgisa Caccone, Carlos Brisola Marcondes, Jane Costa, Oswaldo P. Forattini, Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Richard C. Wilkerson, AND Jeffrey R. Powell

Historical Analysis of a Near Disaster: Anopheles gambiae in Brazil
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008 78: 176-178. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

ERRATUM
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Reviewers:

REVIEWERS
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