Infectious Diseases

3 E. D. Belay, R. C. Holman, L. B. Schonberger Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance and Diagnosis

7 J.T. Weber Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

13 R. Gaynes, J. R. Edwards and NNISS (CDC) Overview of Nosocomial Infections Caused by Gram-Negative Bacilli

21 Dellinger R. P. Inflammation and Coagulation: Implications for the Septic Patient

30 P. Courvalin Antimicrobial Drug Resistance

36 S. Pincus Potential Role of Infections in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases

44 V. F. Struk pH Screening for bacterial vaginosis with a hematoxylin indicator

Cardiology

48 A.S. Olearchyk Mimicking the Subclavian Steal Syndrome

Editorial

53 R. B. Worobec Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases

Biographical Sketches

54 M. Charkewych Thomas Worobec, MD

62 R.B. Worobec Leon L. Dmochowski, MD, PhD

66 P. Pundy Thomas Lapychak, MD

Historical Essays

70 C. T. Ambrose Osler and the Infected Letter

Obituaries

77 P. Pundy Jaroslav Babjuk, MD

Other

78 Announcements

80 Instructions for Authors

81 UMANA Officers

83 Author Index, 2000-2005

84 Subject Index, 2000-2005