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Original articles

• Biofilm formation and esp gene carriage in enterococci (23 June, 2005)

  A A Ramadhan, E Hegedus
• Human defensin 5 expression in intestinal metaplasia of the upper gastrointestinal tract (23 June, 2005)

  B Shen, E M Porter, E Reynoso, C Shen, D Ghosh, J T Connor, J Drazba, H K Rho, T L Gramlich, R Li, A H Ormsby, M-S Sy, T Ganz, C L Bevins
• Immunocytochemical detection of deoxycytidine kinase in haematological malignancies and solid tumours (23 June, 2005)

  I Hubeek, G J Peters, A J F Broekhuizen, I Talianidis, J Sigmond, B E S Gibson, U Creutzig, G Giaccone, G J L Kaspers
• Metaplastic breast carcinomas are negative for Her-2 but frequently express EGFR (Her-1): potential relevance to adjuvant treatment with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors? (23 June, 2005)

  S Leibl, F Moinfar
• Pathological diagnosis of columnar cell lesions of the breast: are there issues of reproducibility? (23 June, 2005)

  P H Tan, B C-S Ho, S Selvarajan, W M Yap, A Hanby
• HER2 amplification status in breast cancer: a comparison between immunohistochemical staining and fluorescence in situ hybridisation using manual and automated quantitative image analysis scoring techniques (23 June, 2005)

  C M Ellis, M J Dyson, T J Stephenson, E L Maltby
• The use of LYVE-1 antibody for detecting lymphatic involvement in patients with malignant melanoma of known sentinel node status (23 June, 2005)

  D Sahni, A Robson, G Orchard, R Szydlo, A V Evans, R Russell-Jones
• Cytokeratin phenotyping does not help in distinguishing oesophageal adenocarcinoma from cancer of the gastric cardia (23 June, 2005)

  M G F van Lier, F J Bomhof, I Leendertse, M Flens, A T Balk, R J L F Loffeld
• The presence of benign prostatic glandular tissue at surgical margins does not predict PSA recurrence (23 June, 2005)

  K M Kernek, M O Koch, J K Daggy, B E Juliar, L Cheng
• Antibiotic selection patterns in acutely febrile new outpatients with or without immediate testing for C reactive protein and leucocyte count (23 June, 2005)

  Y Takemura, K Ebisawa, H Kakoi, H Saitoh, H Kure, H Ishida, M Kure
• Cell cycle related proteins as prognostic parameters in radically resected non-small cell lung cancer (23 June, 2005)

  V Esposito, A Baldi, A De Luca, G Tonini, B Vincenzi, D Santini, P Persichetti, A Mancini, G Citro, F Baldi, A M Groeger, M Caputi
• Polymorphism of the 5′ flanking region of the IL-12 receptor β2 gene partially determines the clinical types of leprosy through impaired transcriptional activity (23 June, 2005)

  H Ohyama, K Ogata, K Takeuchi, M Namisato, Y Fukutomi, F Nishimura, H Naruishi, T Ohira, K Hashimoto, T Liu, M Suzuki, Y Uemura, S Matsushita
• Survivability of vancomycin resistant enterococci and fitness cost of vancomycin resistance acquisition (23 June, 2005)

  A A Ramadhan, E Hegedus
• Use of native or platelet count adjusted platelet rich plasma for platelet aggregation measurements (23 June, 2005)

  H Mani, B Luxembourg, C Kläffling, M Erbe, E Lindhoff-Last
• Transformed dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: a clinicopathological study of eight cases (23 June, 2005)

  Z Szollosi, Z Nemes
• Axillary apocrine carcinoma with benign apocrine tumours: a case report involving a pathological and immunohistochemical study and review of the literature (23 June, 2005)

  T Miyamoto, Y Hagari, S Inoue, T Watanabe, T Yoshino
• No GIST-type c-kit gain of function mutations in neuroblastic tumours (23 June, 2005)

  M Korja, J Finne, T T Salmi, H Haapasalo, M Tanner, J Isola
• Autofluorescence characterisation of isolated whole crypts and primary cultured human epithelial cells from normal, hyperplastic, and adenomatous colonic mucosa (23 June, 2005)

  R S DaCosta, H Andersson, M Cirocco, N E Marcon, B C Wilson