Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the Beijing genotype are rarely observed in tuberculosis patients in South America Viviana Ritacco; Beatriz López; Patricia I Cafrune; Lucilaine Ferrazoli; Philip N Suffys; Norma Candia; Lucy Vásquez; Teresa Realpe; Jorge Fernández; Karla V Lima; Jeannete Zurita; Jaime Robledo; Maria L Rossetti; Afranio L Kritski; Maria A Telles; Juan C Palomino; Herre Heersma; Dick van Soolingen; Kristin Kremer; Lucía Barrera PAGE: 489-492 | DOI: S0074-02762008000500014

Malaria-related anaemia: a Latin American perspective Juan Pablo Quintero; André Machado Siqueira; Alberto Tobón; Silvia Blair; Alberto Moreno; Myriam Arévalo-Herrera; Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda; Sócrates Herrera Valencia PAGE: 91-104 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900012

Platform for Plasmodium vivax vaccine discovery and development Sócrates Herrera Valencia; Diana Carolina Rodríguez; Diana Lucía Acero; Vanessa Ocampo; Myriam Arévalo-Herrera PAGE: 179-192 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000900023

Increased resistance to first-line agents among bacterial pathogens isolated from urinary tract infections in Latin America: time for local guidelines? Soraya S Andrade; Helio S Sader; Ronald N Jones; Andrea S Pereira; Antônio CC Pignatari; Ana C Gales PAGE: 741-748 | DOI: S0074-02762006000700006

Pan American Health Organization's Regional Strategic Framework for addressing neglected diseases in neglected populations in Latin America and the Caribbean Steven K Ault PAGE: 99-107 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000094

Reduction in morbidity and mortality from childhood diarrhoeal disease after species A rotavirus vaccine introduction in Latin America - a review Rishi Desai; Lucia Helena de Oliveira; Umesh D Parashar; Benjamin Lopman; Jacqueline E Tate; Manish M Patel PAGE: 907-911 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000800002

Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of unusual nonfermentative gram-negative bacilli isolated from Latin America: report from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program (1997-2002) Ana C Gales, Ronald N Jones*, Soraya S Andrade, Helio S Sader* PAGE: 571-577

The Impact of Chagas Disease Control in Latin America - A Review JCP Dias, AC Silveira, CJ Schofield PAGE: 603-612

Emerging Plasmodium vivax resistance to chloroquine in South America: an overview Lígia Antunes Gonçalves, Pedro Cravo, Marcelo Urbano Ferreira PAGE: 534-539 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130579

Prevention of Transfusional Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Latin America Gabriel A Schmunis PAGE: 93-101

Vitamin D status in a Brazilian cohort of adolescents and young adults with perinatally acquired human immunodeficiency virus infection Annie Schtscherbyna, Carla Gouveia, Maria Fernanda Miguens Castelar Pinheiro, Ronir Raggio Luiz, Maria Lucia Fleiuss Farias, Elizabeth Stankiewicz Machado PAGE: 128-133 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150403

The status of cryptococcosis in Latin America  Carolina Firacative, Jairo Lizarazo, María Teresa Illnait-Zaragozí, Elizabeth Castañeda, Latin American Cryptococcal Study Group DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170554

Comorbidities increase in-hospital mortality in dengue patients in Brazil Guilherme L Werneck, Alejandro E Macias, Cesar Mascarenas, Laurent Coudeville, David Morley, Vincent Recamier, Mariana Guergova-Kuras, Esteban Puentes-Rosas, Nicolas Baurin, Myew-Ling Toh DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180082