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Original articles

• Increased stool sampling during a waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidiosis does not increase the detection of other faecal pathogens (1 April, 2002)

  A O Qamruddin, M G L Keaney, R McCann, P R Chadwick
• Death certification: an audit of practice entering the 21st century (1 April, 2002)

  B Swift, K West
• Lipoprotein (a) does not participate in the early acute phase response to training or extreme physical activity and is unlikely to enhance any associated immediate cardiovascular risk (1 April, 2002)

  D J Byrne, I A Jagroop, H E Montgomery, M Thomas, D P Mikhailidis, N G Milton, A F Winder
• An evaluation of the performance of XLD, DCA, MLCB, and ABC agars as direct plating media for the isolation of Salmonella enterica from faeces

  (1 April, 2002)

  K J Nye, D Fallon, D Frodsham, B Gee, C Graham, S Howe, S Messer, T Turner, R E Warren
• Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia in the Irish population: a discrepancy between observed and expected cases (1 April, 2002)

  A Davoren, P McParland, C A Barnes, W G Murphy
• Tumour histological grade may progress between primary and recurrent invasive mammary carcinoma (1 April, 2002)

  G Cserni
• Expression of antimicrobial neutrophil defensins in epithelial cells of active inflammatory bowel disease mucosa (1 April, 2002)

  R N Cunliffe, M Kamal, F R A J Rose, P D James, Y R Mahida
• Offline telepathology diagnosis of colorectal polyps: a study of interobserver agreement and comparison with glass slide diagnoses (1 April, 2002)

  S S Cross, J L Burton, A K Dubé, K M Feeley, P D Lumb, T J Stephenson, R D Start