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Letters to the editor

• Allicin: a possible answer to antibiotic resistant campylobacter diarrhoeal infection? (1 September, 1999)

  P M DE WET, H RODE, D SIDLER, A J LASTOVICA
• The vitamin K debacle and infants with cholestatic liver disease (1 September, 1999)

  S B K MAHADEVAN, S V BEATH, P J MCKIERNAN, D A KELLY
• The role of the Glasgow meningococcal septicaemia prognostic score in the emergency management of meningococcal disease (1 September, 1999)

  ENITAN D CARROL, F ANDREW I RIORDAN, ALISTAIR P J THOMSON, JOHN A SILLS, C ANTHONY HART
• Prolonged QTc interval as an important factor in sudden infant death syndrome (1 September, 1999)

  C WREN
• Umbilical cord blood transplantation (1 September, 1999)

  C A JONES, J O WARNER
• No strings attached: preventing deaths from children’s clothing (1 September, 1999)

  JEAN O’SULLIVAN, C ANTHONY RYAN
• Where should paediatric surgery be performed? (1 September, 1999)

  JEFFREY BRAIN, LIAM BRENNAN
• Thyroid dysfunction in Down’s syndrome: relation to age and thyroid autoimmunity (1 September, 1999)

  EWA B POSNER, ALLAN F COLVER
• ACTH treatment for gelastic seizures (1 September, 1999)

  TOHSHIN GO
• Less diarrhoea but no change in growth: 15 years’ data from three Gambian villages (1 September, 1999)

  ROBERT MOY, IAN BOOTH
• Need to consider other causes of poor growth in Gambian children (1 September, 1999)

  MARK BAGOTT
• BCG and tuberculosis (1 September, 1999)

  WREN HOSKYNS
• Varicella: to vaccinate or not vaccinate? (1 September, 1999)

  CHRISTOPH AEBI
• Nurse-led asthma education and childhood asthma readmission rates (1 September, 1999)

  RAVI AGARWAL, ZULF MUGHAL, JAN ANDERTON, JANE BROADY
• Kearns Sayre syndrome initially presenting as hypomelanosis of Ito (1 September, 1999)

  KAKOUROU TALIA, GAROUFI ANASTASIA, NIKOLAIDOU POLYXENI, DAFNI EVMORFIA, TSAMOURI MIGDALENI, A PAPADIMITRIOU, T KARPATHIOS
• Controlled trials from history (1 September, 1999)

  IAIN CHALMERS