Infection continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Nuclear
medicine has an important role in aiding the diagnosis of particularly deep-seated infections …

Scrutiny of sequence data from the Mycobacterium leprae genome sequencing project
identified the presence of a gene encoding a 268-amino-acid polypeptide which is highly …

This report describes an unusual case of endocarditis caused by Capnocytophaga
canimorsus as a result of dog bite. The diagnosis could be established only by molecular …

TO THE EDITOR: We are compelled to respond to the criticism of Welling et al.(1) about
99mTc-ciprofloxacin (Infecton; Draximage Inc., Kirkland, Quebec, Canada) imaging because …

TO THE EDITOR: We read the article by Donohoe et al. with great interest and appreciation
that the Society would attempt some standardization for brain death in the Journal of Nuclear …

The advent of the AIDS pandemic has focused attention on several oppportunistic protozoan
infections, principally, Toxoplasma gondii, Cryptosporidium parvum and Microsporidia …

TO THE EDITOR: The Journal of Nuclear Medicine has recently published 2 closely related
studies from a Japanese group, reporting the application of a fractal method to the analysis …

1. The choice of performing the DCD tomography in 32 steps over 360 penalizes this
modality by a factor of 2 in the examination duration, compared with 32 steps over 180 with …

The bio-physiological basis of nuclear medicine imaging is related to the disease process
and it has been further developed-this time the target is bacteria and the disease state is …

It is a pity that Pauwels et al.[1] continue to misunderstand our and others' work with Infecton,
technetium-99m labelled ciprofloxacin [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. They appear not to appreciate that the …