Table of Contents

Volume 1, Issue 2

  March/April 2010

Editor's Corner

• Crowd control: Bacillus anthracis and quorum sensing
  

  Open Access Article

  Sean M. Rollins and Raymond Schuch
  

• Risk based HIV retesting: Back to the same old challenges
  

  Open Access Article

  Florence Momplaisir and Barbara Turner
  

Research Papers

• The use of nitric oxide releasing nanoparticles as a treatment against Acinetobacter baumannii in wound infections

  Open Access Article

  Mircea Radu Mihu, Uriel Sandkovsky, George Han, Joel M. Friedman, Joshua D. Nosanchuk and Luis R. Martinez
  

• Frequent HIV testing among participants of a routine HIV testing program
  

  Open Access Article

  Hazel Williams-Roberts, Yuchiao Chang, Elena Losina, Kenneth A. Freedberg and Rochelle P. Walensky
  

• Role of luxS in Bacillus anthracis growth and virulence factor expression

  Open Access Article

  Marcus B. Jones, Scott N. Peterson, Rosslyn Benn, John C. Braisted, Behnam Jarrahi, Kenneth Shatzkes, Dacheng Ren, Thomas K. Wood and Martin J. Blaser
  

Addenda

• Schistosoma haematobium and bladder cancer: What lies beneath?
  

  Open Access Article

  Monica Catarina Botelho, Jose Carlos Machado and Jose Manuel Correia da Costa
  

• Guidance of antibiotic therapy with procalcitonin in lower respiratory tract infections: Insights into the ProHOSP study
  

  Open Access Article

  Philipp Schuetz, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Werner Albrich, Werner Zimmerli and Beat Mueller
  

• Mapping the selection mechanisms by bacterial GEFs
  

  Open Access Article

  Zhiwei Huang and Jijie Chai
  

• Clostridium perfringens type C isolates rapidly upregulate their toxin production upon contact with host cells: New insights into virulence?
  

  Open Access Article

  Bruce McClane
  

• Transmissible encephalopathy agents: Virulence, geography and clockwork
  

  Open Access Article

  Laura Manuelidis
  

• Significance of reduced reactivity in ELISPOT assay to RD antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in BCG vaccinated individuals exposed to a patient with tuberculosis
  

  Open Access Article

  Michael Eisenhut
  

Letter to the Editor

• Relevance of serology and molecular methods for detection of Hepatitis B virus in Egyptian children with hematological malignancy
  

  Open Access Article

  Maysaa El Sayed Zaki and Rasha Abd El Malak