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Contents Volume 43 No.. 1 Announcement from the Publisher C. House and R.F. Meyer (USA) The detection of foot-and-mouth disease virus in oesophagealpharyngeal samples by a polymerase chain reaction technique R.W. Briddon, A.G. Prescott, P. Lunness, L.C.L. Chamberlin and P.G. Markham (UK) Rapid production of full-length, infectious geminivirus clones by abutting primer PCR (AbP-PCR) M. Tordjeman, V. Rabillon, D. Abouth, C. Trepo, A. Hoffenbach and G. Somme (France) Specific detection of anti-HBc antibodies with an enzyme immunoassay using recombinant HBcAg and monoclonal antibodies R.M. Pinto, J. Jofre, F.X. Abad, J.F. Gonzalez-Dankaart and A. Bosch (Spain) Concentration of fish enveloped viruses from large volumes of water G.A. de Wilde and R.A. Heijtink (The Netherlands ) Immuno disc assay for screening duck hepatitis B surface antigen in serum, liver tissue and cultured hepatocytes D.J. Gaertner, D.F. Winograd, S.R. Compton, F.X. Paturzo and A.L. Smith (USA) Development and optimization of plaque assays for rat coronaviruses W. Braun, B. Weber, U. Moell, A. Hamann and H.W. Doerr (Germany) Immunoglobulin A and M patterns to human cytomegalovirus during recurrent infection in patient with AIDS using a modified Western blot F. Yang and X. Xu (People’s Republic of China) A new method of RNA preparation for detection of hepatitis A virus in environmental samples by the polymerase chain reaction L.H. Elliott, S.P. Bauer, G. Perez-Oronoz and E.S. Lloyd (USA) Improved specificity of testing methods for filovirus antibodies K.M. Gibson, J. Mori and J.P. Clewley (UK) Detection of HIV-1 in serum, using reverse transcription and the polymerase chain reaction (RT- PCR) S. Noda, Y. Eizuru, Y. Minamishima, T. Ikenoue and N. Mori (Japan) Detection of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type | infection by the polymerase chain reaction using dried blood specimens on filter papers T. Nakamura, A. Kato, Z. Lin, M. Hiraga, T. Nunoya, Y. Otaki and S. Ueda (Japan) A rapid quantitative method for detecting infectious bursal disease virus using polystyrene latex microspheres Announcement VI International Symposium on Viral Hepatitis No. 2 Announcement from the Publisher M. Harmsen, T.A.M. Oosterlaken, C. Tangerman, H. Snippe and C.A. Kraaijeveld (The Netherlands ) Detection by a solid phase independent enzyme immunoassay of monoclonal anti-idiotypic antibodies against monoclonal antibodies neutralizing Semliki Forest virus and encephalomyo- carditis virus E.V. Podleckis, R.W. Hammond, S.S. Hurtt and A. Hadidi (USA) Chemiluminescent detection of potato and pome fruit viroids by digoxigenin-labeled dot blot and tissue blot hybridization 354 H. Kamata, S. Ohkubo, M. Sugiyama, Y. Matsuura, Y. Kamata, K. Tsukiyama-Kohara, K. Imaoka, C. Kai, Y. Yoshikawa and K. Yamanouchi (Japan) Expression in baculovirus vector system of the nucleocapsid protein gene of rinderpest virus J. Anderson, P.P.C. Mertens and K.A.J. Herniman (UK) A competitive ELISA for the detection of anti-tubule antibodies using a monoclonal antibody against Bluetongue virus non-structural protein NS1 B. van Gemen, T. Kievits, R. Schukkink, D. van Strijp, L.T. Malek, R. Sooknanan, H.G. Huisman and P. Lens (The Netherlands, Canada) Quantification of HIV-1 RNA in plasma using NASBA™ during HIV-1 primary infection M. Koopmans, S.S. Monroe, L.M. Coffield and S.R. Zaki (USA) Optimization of extraction and PCR amplification of RNA extracts from paraffin-embedded tissue in different fixatives R.J. Whittington and K.A. Steiner (A ustralia) Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis virus (EHNV): improved ELISA for detection in fish tissues and cell cultures and an efficient method for release of antigen from tissues N. Carey, D.J. Roy and R.G. Dalziel (UK) Use of recombinant gp135 to study epitope-specific antibody responses to maedi visna virus J.-C. Lin, B. Kumar De and S.-C. Lin (USA) Rapid and sensitive genotyping of Epstein-Barr virus using single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis of polymerase chain reaction products J. Schiipbach and J. Boni (Switzerland) Quantitative and sensitive detection of immune-complexed and free HIV antigen after boiling of serum E. Puchhammer-Stoeckl, F.X. Heinz and C. Kunz (Austria) Evaluation of 3 nonradioactive DNA detection systems for identification of herpes simplex DNA amplified from cerebrospinal fluid Corrigendum No. 3 Announcement from the Publisher E. Scholz, E. Welniak, T. Nyholm and P. Guo (USA) An avian hepatoma cell line for the cultivation of infectious laryngotracheitis virus and for the expression of foreign genes with a mammalian promotor R. Berger, M. Just and B. Althaus (Switzerland) Time course of hepatitis A antibody production after active, passive and active/passive immunisation: the results are highly dependent on the antibody test system used C.M. Quan, M. Krajden, J. Zhao and A.W. Chan (Ontario) High-performance liquid chromatography to assess the effect of serum storage conditions on the detection of hepatitis C virus by the polymerase chain reaction A.D. Gruber, I.M. Greiser-Wilke, L. Haas, M. Hewicker-Trautwein and V. Moennig (Germany ) Detection of bovine viral diarrhea virus RNA in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded brain tissue by nested polymerase chain reaction R.A. Tucker, P.R. Johnson, W.C. Reeves and J.P. Icenogle (USA) Using the polymerase chain reaction to genotype human papillomavirus DNAs in samples containing multiple HPVs may produce inaccurate results P.L. Rady, R. Chin, I. Arany, T.K. Hughes and S.K. Tyring (USA) Direct sequencing of consensus primer generated PCR fragments of human papillomaviruses Erratum Contents of Volume 43 Author index Subject index Instructions to Authors