1. EDITORIAL

   Pages: 685 - 685

2. Possible role of calmodulin in excystation of Giardia lamblia

   • Rosa María Bernal
   • Rosalinda Tovar
   • María Lourdes Muñoz

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 687 - 693

3. Determination of nuclear DNA concentration in cells of Myxobolus cerebralis and triactinomyxon spores, the causative agent of whirling disease

   • Mansour El-Matbouli
   • Thomas W. Holstein
   • Rudolf W. Hoffmann

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 694 - 699

4. Serodiagnosis of acute toxoplasmosis using a recombinant form of the dense granule antigen GRA6 in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

   • Anke Redlich
   • Wolfgang A. Müller

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 700 - 706

5. Characterization of Giardia duodenalis by polymerase-chain-reaction fingerprinting

   • Wieger L. Homan
   • Margriet Gilsing
   • Frans van Knapen

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 707 - 714

6. The level of the collagen cross-link pyridinoline reflects the improvement of cutaneous lesions in one case of skin alveolar echinococcosis

   • S. Ricard-Blum
   • S. Bresson-Hadni
   • D. A. Vuitton

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 715 - 719

7. Effect of glucantime on field and patient isolates of New World Leishmania : use of growth parameters of promastigotes to assess antimony susceptibility

   • Elizabeth Spangler
   • Andrade Moreira
   • Maria Lourdes Petrillo-Peixoto

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 720 - 726

8. Host choice by larval parasites: a study of Biomphalaria glabrata snails and Schistosoma mansoni miracidia related to host size

   • A. Théron
   • A. Rognon
   • J.-R. Pagès

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 727 - 732

9. Immunohistochemical characterization of a polyclonal antibody against Sphaerospora dicentrarchi (Myxosporea: Bivalvulida), a parasite from sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) (Teleostei: Serranidae)

   • P. Muñoz
   • A. Sitjà-Bobadilla
   • P. Alvarez-Pellitero

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 733 - 740

10. Multiple bacteroids in the bacteriome of the lantern bug Pyrops candelaria Linn. (Homoptera: Fulgoridae)

    • Jian Bin Wang
    • Wilkin Wai Kuen Cheung

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 741 - 745

11. Amebicidal activity of plant extracts from Southeast Asia on Acanthamoeba spp.

    • Dan-My Chu
    • Howard Miles
    • Francine Marciano-Cabral

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 746 - 752

12. Longer-term population dynamics of Gyrodactylus bullatarudis and G. turnbulli (Monogenea) on adult guppies (Poecilia reticulata) in 50-l experimental arenas

    • G. R. Richards
    • J. C. Chubb

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 753 - 756

13. Characterization of levamisole binding sites in Trichinella spiralis

    • A. Jiménez-González
    • R. M. Ros-Moreno
    • F. Rodríguez-Caabeiro

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 757 - 759

14. Biochemical characterization of the Golgi-complex proteins of Tritrichomonas foetus

    • José Andrés Morgado Díaz
    • Wanderley de Souza

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 760 - 762

15. A recombinant protein disulfide isomerase homologue from Ancylostoma caninum

    • C. Epe
    • C. Kohlmetz
    • T. Schnieder

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 763 - 766