1-2
Editorial
The development of microbiology in Spain
Julio R. Villanueva
3-4
Editorial
The immune system and microorganisms: a love-hate relationship revisited
Javier Jiménez and Miguel Sánchez-Pérez
5-9
Review Article
Enteric pathogens and soil: a short review
Johanna Santamaría and Gary A. Toranzos
11-16
Review Article
Genetic basis of microbial carotenogenesis
C. Sieiro, M. Poza, T. de Miguel and T. G. Villa
17-26
Research Article
Fungus propagules in plastids: the mycosome hypothesis
Peter R. Atsatt
27-32
Research Article
Rotavirus type A and other enteric pathogens in stool samples from children with acute diarrhea on the Colombian northern coast
Delfina Urbina, Octavio Arzuza, Gregorio Young, Edgar Parra and Raimundo Castro, et al.
33-39
Research Article
A methodological approach to investigate steady state fucoxanthin chlorophyll
a/c
binding protein mRNA levels in Wadden Sea sediments
Telse Meyer, Michael Hust, Jürgen Marquardt, Wolfgang E. Krumbein and Erhard Rhiel
41-47
Research Article
Combination ecotoxicity and testing of common chemical discharges to sewer using the
Vibrio fischeri
luminescence bioassay
C. Hoffmann, D. Sales and N. Christofi
49-55
Research Article
Intracellular transport of a heterologous membrane protein, the human transferrin receptor, in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Bianka Prinz, Ulf Stahl and Christine Lang
57-64
Research Article
Conjugative plasmid mediated inducible nickel resistance in
Hafnia alvei
5-5
Jeong Eun Park, Kho Eun Young, Hans-Günter Schlegel, Ho Gun Rhie and Ho Sa Lee
65-68
Perspectives
News from Cairo: 18th International Conference on Arginine and Pyrimidines (ICAP 2002; 13–16 October 2002)
Vicente Rubio
69-73
Perspectives
A brief history of the SEM journal(s): staunchly resisting improbability. I. From 1947 to 1997
Ricardo Guerrero and Rubens López
75-78
Book Review
Milton H. Saier, Jr. (series ed): Functional genomics series
Caister Academic Press, Norfolk, England
Mercedes Berlanga
79-80
Book Review
Ian T. Paulsen, Kim Lewis (eds): Microbial multidrug efflux
Horizon Scientific Press, 2002. 301 pp. 24 cm×16 cm (ISBN 1-898486-33-6) £85.00
José A. Aínsa
81-82
Book Review
Bert L. Semler, Eckard Wimmer (eds): Molecular biology of picornaviruses
ASM Press, Washington, DC. 2002. 502 pp. 28 cm×22 cm (ISBN: 1-55581-210-4) US $189.95
Albert Bosch
83-84
Book review
Robert I. Krasner: The microbial challenge. Human–microbe interactions
ASM Press, Washigton, D.C. 2002. 433 pp. 28.7×22.2 cm (ISBN: 1-55581-241-4) US$ 90.00
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