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Original articles

• Randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of podophyllotoxin solution, podophyllotoxin cream, and podophyllin in the treatment of genital warts (5 August, 2003)

  C J N Lacey, R L Goodall, G Ragnarson Tennvall, R Maw, G R Kinghorn, P G Fisk, S Barton, I Byren
• Is HSV serology useful for the management of first episode genital herpes? (5 August, 2003)

  J Page, J Taylor, R L Tideman, C Seifert, C Marks, A Cunningham, A Mindel
• Psychosocial impact of serological diagnosis of herpes simplex virus type 2: a qualitative assessment (5 August, 2003)

  J Melville, S Sniffen, R Crosby, L Salazar, W Whittington, D Dithmer-Schreck, R DiClemente, A Wald
• Seroepidemiological study of herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 in Brazil, Estonia, India, Morocco, and Sri Lanka (5 August, 2003)

  F M Cowan, R S French, P Mayaud, R Gopal, N J Robinson, S Artimos de Oliveira, T Faillace, A Uusküla, M Nygård-Kibur, S Ramalingam, G Sridharan, R El Aouad, K Alami, M Rbai, N P Sunil-Chandra, D W Brown
• An outbreak no longer: factors contributing to the return of syphilis in Greater Manchester (5 August, 2003)

  M Ashton, W Sopwith, P Clark, D McKelvey, L Lighton, D Mandal
• Expression of the cytolethal distending toxin in a geographically diverse collection of Haemophilus ducreyi clinical isolates

  (5 August, 2003)

  K Kulkarni, D A Lewis, C A Ison
• Detection of varicella zoster virus in genital specimens using a multiplex polymerase chain reaction (5 August, 2003)

  C J Birch, J D Druce, M C Catton, L MacGregor, T Read
• A national survey of genitourinary medicine clinic attenders provides little evidence of sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus infection (5 August, 2003)

  M A Balogun, M E Ramsay, J V Parry, L Donovan, N J Andrews, J A Newham, C McGarrigle, K A Harris, C G Teo
• Variations of HIV and STI prevalences within communities neighbouring new goldmines in Tanzania: importance for intervention design (5 August, 2003)

  S Clift, A Anemona, D Watson-Jones, Z Kanga, L Ndeki, J Changalucha, A Gavyole, D A Ross
• Chlamydial infection: an accurate model for opportunistic screening in general practice (5 August, 2003)

  V Verhoeven, D Avonts, A Meheus, H Goossens, M Ieven, S Chapelle, C Lammens, P Van Royen
• Tetracycline treatment does not eradicate Mycoplasma genitalium

  (5 August, 2003)

  L Falk, H Fredlund, J S Jensen
• Awareness of human papillomavirus among women attending a well woman clinic (5 August, 2003)

  J Waller, K McCaffery, S Forrest, A Szarewski, L Cadman, J Wardle
• Syphilis prevalence has rapidly decreased in South Korea (5 August, 2003)

  Y-H Cho, H O Kim, J-B Lee, M-G Lee
• Effects of two telephone survey methods on the level of reported risk behaviours (5 August, 2003)

  J T F Lau, H Y Tsui, Q S Wang
• Predictors of the prevalence of bacterial STI among young disadvantaged Indigenous people in north Queensland, Australia (5 August, 2003)

  G C Miller, R McDermott, B McCulloch, C K Fairley, R Muller