This week's This week in the BMJ

	Chemoprophylaxis may be overused in meningococcal disease [Full text] FREE

	Preventive treatment for tuberculosis in adults infected with HIV does confer benefits [Full text] FREE

	Amoxycillin and folate inhibitors are as effective as newer antibiotics in acute sinusitis [Full text] FREE

	More evidence of ineffectiveness will not reduce antibiotic prescribing for sore throat [Full text] FREE

	Quarter of the enterococci responsible for endocarditis are resistant [Full text] FREE

	Multidrug resistant TB in France is associated with HIV [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Antimicrobial resistance
	Richard Wise, Tony Hart, Otto Cars, Marc Streulens, Reinen Helmuth, Pentti Huovinen, Marc Sprenger
	BMJ  1998;317:609-610 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Antimicrobial resistance: a veterinary perspective
	Q A McKellar
	BMJ  1998;317:610-611 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Antimicrobial resistance: bacteria on the defence
	Stuart B Levy
	BMJ  1998;317:612-613 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Control of antimicrobial resistance: time for action
	Pentti Huovinen, Otto Cars
	BMJ  1998;317:613-614 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance
	David M Livermore, Alasdair P Macgowan, Martin C J Wale
	BMJ  1998;317:614-615 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lessons from New York's tuberculosis epidemic
	Richard Coker
	BMJ  1998;317:616-620 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Hypoxic responses in infants
	Charles West, Nicholas Pace, Susan Niermeyer, Lorna Grindlay Moore, M P Ward Platt, P J Fleming, P S Blair, C E A Leach, J Golding, I Smith, Paul Johnson, Julian Savulescu, P B James, David Southall, C Poets, Louise O'Brien, Valerie Stebbens, K Parkins
	BMJ  1998;317:675 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ecological studies are a poor means of testing aetiological hypotheses
	Shah Ebrahim, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1998;317:678 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Studies must establish whether prolonged QTc interval in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes is reversible
	Peter Kempler, Katalin Keresztes, Zsolt Hermányi, Anna Marton
	BMJ  1998;317:678 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Helicobacter pylori and surgery
	D Karat, S M Griffin, S Khulusi, T D Heymann, Peter D Willson, D G Colin-Jones, C D Roseveare, John Danesh, Richard Peto
	BMJ  1998;317:679 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Relation between birth weight and blood pressure is independent of maternal blood pressure
	Stephanie J C Taylor, Katherine Hird, Peter Whincup, Derek Cook
	BMJ  1998;317:680 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis
	I Simms, G Hughes, M Catchpole, C Thompson, Harisadhan Maiti, Heather Bower, Jenny Norrie, Margaret Polaneczky, A A Opaneye
	BMJ  1998;317:680 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Other amputees are the greatest help in dealing with limb loss
	Nigel Page, Jed Rowe
	BMJ  1998;317:682 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long term follow up of children with recurrent abdominal pain
	Ishaq Abu-Arafeh, Matthew Hotopf, S Wessely, Siobhan Carr, Richard Mayou, M Wadsworth
	BMJ  1998;317:682 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Central venous catheters and infection
	E T Curran, M Booth, J Hood, R P D Cooke, N A Watson, K Myerson, R S Umasankar, J Cook, Frances Bernau, T J Dexter, Tom Elliott, Muzaffar Faroqui
	BMJ  1998;317:683 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effects of ambulance response times are being evaluated
	Jon Nicholl, Jill Willoughby
	BMJ  1998;317:684 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Surgical specimens to be tested for new variant CJD
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:617 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Role of nurses to expand in Australia
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1998;317:617 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Trials sponsored by drug companies: review ordered
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1998;317:618 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Waiting lists respond to cash boost
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:618 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Repeated miscarriages may be explained by deficient T cells
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;317:619 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New, more virulent strain of HIV found
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1998;317:619 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Facing the microbial threat
	BMJ  1998;317:620 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Precise cause of Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome found
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1998;317:620 [Extract] [Full text]

	Vaccine delivery system using safe bacteria invented
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;317:620 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: The development of new antimicrobial agents
	Richard Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:643-644 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Are amoxycillin and folate inhibitors as effective as other antibiotics for acute sinusitis? A meta-analysis
	Sarah D de Ferranti, John P A Ioannidis, Joseph Lau, William V Anninger, Michael Barza
	BMJ  1998;317:632-637 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra] FREE

	Understanding the culture of prescribing: qualitative study of general practitioners' and patients' perceptions of antibiotics for sore throats
	Christopher C Butler, Stephen Rollnick, Roisin Pill, Frances Maggs-Rapport, Nigel Stott
	BMJ  1998;317:637-642 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Some experience necessary
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1998;317:687 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The government's initiative may be stillborn
	Malcolm Frazer
	BMJ  1998;317:687 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Emerging Infections
	Imre J P Loefler
	BMJ  1998;317:689 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effective Commissioning: Lessons from Purchasing in American Managed Care
	Jennifer Dixon
	BMJ  1998;317:689 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	What can be done about resistance to antibiotics?
	John Turnidge
	BMJ  1998;317:645-647 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Antimicrobial resistance in developing countries
	C A Hart, S Kariuki
	BMJ  1998;317:647-650 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Surveillance of antimicrobial resistancean international perspective
	R J Williams, M J Ryan
	BMJ  1998;317:651-660 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in hospital acquired infections: problems and possible solutions
	Marc J Struelens
	BMJ  1998;317:652-654 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Community acquired infections and bacterial resistance
	Herman Goossens, Marc J W Sprenger
	BMJ  1998;317:654-657 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The origins and molecular basis of antibiotic resistance
	Peter M Hawkey
	BMJ  1998;317:657-660 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Antiviral drug resistance
	Deenan Pillay, Maria Zambon
	BMJ  1998;317:660-662 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	Regulating the use of antibiotics in the community
	Claude Carbon, Richard P Bax
	BMJ  1998;317:663-665 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Use of antimicrobial drugs in veterinary practice
	A M Johnston
	BMJ  1998;317:665-667 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Strategies for promoting judicious use of antibiotics by doctors and patients
	Edward A Belongia, Benjamin Schwartz
	BMJ  1998;317:668-671 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Community based approaches to the control of multidrug resistant tuberculosis: introducing "DOTS-plus"
	Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim
	BMJ  1998;317:671-674 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:690 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	When I use a word . . . : Grapes
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1998;317:688 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Confidential inquiry into quality of care before admission to intensive care
	BMJ  1998;317:631 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The hot air on passive smoking
	BMJ  1998;317:684 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Developing the medical mind
	Carl Gray
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: It would be a pity if only women in medicine ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: In a violence special the Health Service Report (London: IRS, ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Induction can not only prevent culture shock when an individual ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Bugs and drugs
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Bugs and drugs
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Arnold Appleby • Alasdair Patrick Barden • Benjamin Tillett Davis • William Ferguson • Kenneth Macrae Leighton • Harry Naftali Levitt • Frederick ("Fred") Smart Melville • Kevin Lorne Merrett • John Sinclair Miller • Herbert Jan Penkala • Philip Vernon Reading
	V L McAllister, Marten Walker, Elizabeth Barden, Peter Gilroy Bevan, Anne Valle, John M Ferries, Donald Munro, David Levitt, David W Melville, Allan Mahoney, Peter Young, Bill Thom, Anna Penkala, O H Shaheen
	BMJ  1998;317:685 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Which contacts of patients with meningococcal disease carry the pathogenic strain of Neisseria meningitidis? A population based study
	Bjørn-Erik Kristiansen, Yngvar Tveten, Andrew Jenkins
	BMJ  1998;317:621-625 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of preventive treatment for tuberculosis in adults infected with HIV: systematic review of randomised placebo controlled trials
	David Wilkinson, S B Squire, Paul Garner
	BMJ  1998;317:625-629 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antibiotic resistance among enterococci causing endocarditis in the UK: analysis of isolates referred to a reference laboratory
	Alan P Johnson, Marina Warner, Neil Woodford, David C E Speller, David M Livermore
	BMJ  1998;317:629-630 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Multidrug resistant tuberculosis in France 1992-4: two case-control studies
	Valérie Schwoebel, Bénédicte Decludt, Anne-Claire de Benoist, Sylvie Haeghebaert, Gabriela Torrea, Véronique Vincent, Jacques Grosset
	BMJ  1998;317:630-631 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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