JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGYVOLUME 26 * MAY 1988 * NUMBER 5

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Author IndexAcar, Jacques F., 1061Adkins, Virginia W., 1029Antone, Susan M., 885Archambault, Denis, 971Askelof, Per, 869

Baillou, Armelle, 1000Ballet, Jean Jacques, 1037Barin, Francis, 1000Barrett, Fred F., 1045Barthe, Christine, 1016Begaud, E., 995Belshe, Robert B., 911Benhamou, Nicole, 1016Berron, Patricia, 1031Berron, Renato, 1031Biano, Stella, 1024Bibb, William F., 799Bitsura, Jo Ann M., 1047Blaser, Martin J., 863Bodhidatta, Ladaporn, 863Boissinot, Maurice, 1016Bopp, Helen, 919Bottone, Edward J., 890Brakel, Christine L., 933Brasseur, Philippe, 1037Brenner, Don J., 799Brown, A. E., 923Buening, Gerald M., 906Burgdorfer, Willy, 893Buu-Hoi, Annie Y., 1061

Cabello, Felipe C., 928Cavalieri, Stephen J., 850Chatzipanagiotou, S., 1066Chevrier, D., 1050Chuenchitra, C., 923Clement, M., 1063Compton, Carolyn, 948Confer, Anthony W., 885Connelly, Carla, 842Conrad, Robert S., 821Constantopoulos, George, 965Corey, Lawrence, 933Cortesia, Manuel J., 831Cumbie, Richard, 827Cunningham, Anthony L., 990Cunningham, Madeleine W.,

885

Dahlberg, John E., 971Dakos, Joanna, 1024Dalton, Harry P., 1034Davis, Charles E., Jr., 1055Deeb, Barbara J., 943DeGirolami, Paola C., 1024de Graaff, J., 1063Demonty, Jean, 857Denis, François, 1000Desmonts, Georges, 901Desplaces, N., 1050DeVita, James, 846Dhar, Piyaray M., 1040Dhar, Rita, 1040Dickerson, Jennifer W., 837DiGiacomo, Ronald F., 943

Donnolley, Caleb T., 965Dular, Ram, 1068Dunne, Ardeth, 933DuPont, Herbert L., 1047Durham, Janet A., 885

East, Nancy, 971Echeverria, Peter, 863Eichelberger, Karen, 1024Ellner, Paul D., 919Ericsson, Charles D., 1047

Faundez, Gustavo, 928Ferraro, Mary Jane, 948Field, Peter R., 990Figueroa, Guillermo, 928Flynn, Patricia M., 1045Fomsgaard, Anders, 821Fuccillo, David A., 954Fujimura, Setsuo, 1070

Gafoor, Mahboob, 1040Galanos, Chris, 821Gentilomi, Giovanna, 1005Germani, Y., 995Gershy-Damet, Guy, 1000Gleckman, Richard, 846Gorse, Geoffrey J., 911Graham, Leroy, Jr., 1034Grandien, Monica, 808Granstrom, Gunnar, 869Granstrôm, Marta, 869Grayston, J. Thomas, 812Guesdon, J. L., 995, 1050Gunn, Bruce A., 1055

Han, X. Y., 976Hass, Ada, 890Hatheway, Charles L., 1052Healy, George R., 837Hibert, Debra, 846Hieter, Philip, 842Higgins, R., 985Hine, Elizabeth A. S., 875Ho, David W. T., 990Hodes, David S., 890Hodes, Horace L., 890Hof, H., 1066H0iby, Niels, 821Hook, Edward W., III, 896Howard, Herod, 943

Javier de la Cabada, F., 1047Joassin, Luc, 857Johansson, Mats, 808Johnson, Philip C., 1047Joiner, K. T., 1072Jokinen, Kalevi, 957Jokipii, Anssi M. M., 957Jokipii, Liisa, 957Joly, Jean R., 1016Jones, Bradley D., 831Joundy, Souad, 1061

Kajioka, Robert, 1068Karstens, Robert H., 893

Kasatiya, Shanti, 1068Kelsey, Peter, 948Knapp, Joan S., 896Krueger, Charles M., 906Kuo, Cho-chou, 812

Langenberg, Andria, 933La Placa, Michele, 1005Lariviere, S., 985Larson, E. L., 950Lemeteil, Denis, 1037Leonard, Guy, 1000Lewis, David C., 938Leyden, J. J., 950Li, Quan-Gen, 1009Lightfoot, Nigel F., 938Lonon, Miriam K., 979Ludwig, Wolfgang, 1042

Madan, Elio, 1029Madden, David M., 954Martin, Ronald, 846Mathewson, John J., 1047McCroskey, Loretta M., 1052McGinley, K. J., 950McKinney, Roger M., 799Mégraud, F., 1050Merz, W. G., 842Midkiff, Bentley R., 1029Mirrett, Stanley, 962Mittal, K. R., 985Mobley, Harry L. T., 831Môllby, Roland, 879Moreau, J. P., 995Mounier, Marcelle, 1000Muller, Jacqueline, 965Munn, Nancy J., 911Musiani, Monica, 1005

Nakamura, Takeshi, 1070Nwofor, C., 1072Nys, Monique, 857

Odugbemi, Tolu, 1072Ortiz-Ortiz, Librado, 1031

Parsonnet, Julie, 948Pelletier, Carol, 846Perk, Kalman, 971Permpanich, B., 923Pether, John V. S., 938Pettersson, Carl-Axel, 808Phalente, L., 995Pipithkul, J., 923Pitarangsi, Chittima, 863Plazzi, Marinella, 1005Plikaytis, Brian D., 799Pollice, Marjorie, 933

Ramsay, Danielle, 1016Reller, L. Barth, 962Remington, Jack S., 901Remington, Michael, 933Ren, Q. W., 976Rey, Jean-Loup, 1000Rosenthal, Linda E., 831

Sangare, Affoué, 1000Schleifer, Karl Heinz, 1042Schmidhuber, Susanne, 1042Schmidt, Daniel, 1000Schrumpf, Merry E., 893Schwan, Tom G., 893Sedallian, A., 1050Seetharama, Subramani, 850Seki, Masashi, 804Seriwatana, Jitvimol, 863Sever, John L., 954Shand, Geoffrey H., 821Shekarchi, Isabel C., 954Shenep, Jerry L., 1045Shibata, Hideaki, 804Shibata, Yukinaga, 1070Sipila, Pekka, 957Slifkin, Malcolm, 827Smith, Doug, 933Snyder, Irvin S., 850Soderlind, Olof, 879Somzee, Anne, 857Soro, Benoît, 1000Steffen, Earl K., 875Steigerwalt, Arnold G., 799Straus, David C., 979Strauss, Robert, 948Subik, Marc A., 1029Suzuki, Yasuhiro, 901

Taylor, David N., 863Tesh, Martha J., 1058Thafvelin, Bernt, 879Thouless, Margaret E., 943Thulliez, Philippe, 901Tomita, Toshio, 804Troncoso, Miriam, 928Tsai, T. F., 976Tsang, Anna Y., 1034

Umeda, Mamoru, 804

van Winkelhoff, A. J., 1063Verdier, Mireille, 1000Vikerfors, Tomas, 808Visvesvara, Govinda S., 837

Wadell, Goran, 1009Wagner, Joseph E., 875Wang, Timothy, 948Warren, Nancy G., 1034Webster, H. K., 923Weinstein, Melvin P., 962Welch, Karen, 948Westblom, T. Ulf, 1029Winter, Carol, 933Wood, Richard L., 1058Woods, Donald E., 979Woods, Gail L., 816, 1026Woods, Toni C., 799

Xu, Z. Y., 976

Yam, Paul, 816Yasuda, Tatsuji, 804Young, Anita, 1026

Zerbini, Marialuisa, 1005Zierdt, Charles H., 965

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