Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . February 17th, 1997
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Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - Disappointing Results With Vaccine/AZT Combination
Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - Naked-DNA HIV Vaccine Safe in First Human Trials
Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - New Paradigm For AIDS Therapies: Prevent Drug Resistance
Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - New Tricks For Old Vaccine
Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - Routine Vaccination Does Not Affect HIV
Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - Two P or Not Two P: That Is The Question
AIDS Therapies - Drugs Helping, But Doubts Linger
AIDS Therapies - Therapy Partly Rebuilds Damaged Immune System
AIDS Therapies (Clinical Trials) - Six-Month Results of HIV Trial Announced
AIDS Therapies (Combination Therapy) - Options Remain Open for Patients Treated with Drug Combination
AIDS Therapies (Drug Combination) - Nevirapine and Protease Inhibitor "Cocktails" Are Safe for HIV Patients
AIDS Therapies (ISIS 5320) - Phase I Clinical Trials Begin of Anti-HIV Compound
AIDS Therapies (Invirase) - Drug Studied in Combination with Three Protease Inhibitors
AIDS Therapies (PHT) - Passive Hyperimmune Therapy Treatment Ownership Reaffirmed
AIDS Therapies (Remune) - Increased Chemokine Production Observed with Treatment
Funding - Grant Received To Address HIV Prevention Issues
Funding - NIH Grant Awarded To Develop Novel HIV Therapeutics
HIV Testing - Lawmakers Seek To Curb Prostitution In Kansas City
Industry News (Acquisitions) - Pharmacies Partner with CCA To Implement HIV Program
Industry News (HIV Testing) - Product Development Collaboration Entered To Develop Test
Industry News (Joint Ventures) - Research Agreements Announced To Participate in Trials
Industry News (Patents and Technology) - Patent Filed Using Immune System Cells To Fight Disease
Industry News (Therapy) - Collaboration Announced For HIV/AIDS Therapy
International (Africa) - Zimbabwe Orders AIDS/HIV Tests for Rape Victims
International (Asia) - HIV Cases Jump Ten Percent in Hong Kong in 1996
International (Europe) - First-Line Approval Received for Abelcet in Spain
Internet - Mediconsult.com Launches Virtual Medical Clinic
Legal Issues - Hospital Won't Appeal Award To Patient Raped By Another
Obstetrics (Fertility/Infertility) - HIV Risk in Discordant Couples Seeking to Conceive
Pathogenesis (HIV) - Extent of Virus Replication In Vivo Is Major Determinant of Pathogenicity
Pathogenesis (HIV) - Primary Immune Response Predicts Disease Progression
Shingles - Famvir Safe and Effective Treatment for HIV Patients
TB/HIV Coinfection - TB Incidence Among HIV+ Higher in Eastern U.S.
TB/HIV Coinfection - Two-Step TB Testing Useful in HIV+
Transmission - Disease Control Programs Should Apply 20/80 Rule
Antisense Therapy (HIV) - "Better Protection Against HIV Infection by Dual Function Retroviral Vectors."
Disease Associations - "A Review of Pulmonary and Mediastinal Mass Lesions (PMML) in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome: 1985-1996."
Drug Resistance (Antiviral) - "HIV Resistance To Protease Inhibitor."
Epidemiology (TB) - "Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) Isolates from Grady Health System (GHS): 1993 and 1995."
Hematopoietic Gene Therapy (HIV) - "Suitability of Bone Marrow from HIV-1 Infected Donors for Retroviral-Mediated Gene Transfer."
Infection Control (TB) - "Tuberculosis Surveillance with Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) in Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) Vaccinated Patients."
Occupational Risk (Prophylaxis) - "Infection Control and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis."
Occupational Risk (Virus Transmission) - "Occupational Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids among Health Care Workers in Australia."
Opportunistic Infections - "Trends in CD4 Count at Diagnosis of HIV Related Opportunistic Infections and Malignancies."
Prophylaxis (HIV) - "Vaccination for the Person with HIV Infection."
AIDS Therapies (Comparison) - "A Multiple-Dose Pharmacokinetic Interaction Study Between Didanosine (Videx(R)) and Ciprofloxacin (Cipro(R)) in Male Subjects Seropositive for HIV b
AIDS-Related Lymphoma - "Lymphomagenesis in the Severe Combined Immune Deficient Mouse Engrafted with Human Lymphocytes: Clues Towards the Pathogenesis and Treatment of AIDS Lymphoma (Review)."
Diagnostics (HIV) - "Diagnosis of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection in Infants by Immune Complex Dissociation p24 Assay."
Epidemiology (HIV) - "Presence of Multiple Non-B Subtypes and Divergent Subtype B Strains of HIV-1 in Individuals Infected after Overseas Deployment."
HIV Vaccines - "HIV-1-Specific Cell-Mediated Immunity Is Enhanced by Co-Inoculation of TCA3 Expression Plasmid with DNA Vaccine."
HIV/HCV Coinfection - "The Association Between Hepatitis C Virus Genotype and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease Progression in a Cohort of Hemophilic Men."
HTLV/HIV Coinfection - "Retroviral Coinfections at a New Orleans HIV Outpatient Clinic."
Immunology - "A New Class of Antigen-Specific Killer Cells."
Immunology (HIV) - "A Semiquantitative Assay for CD8+ T-Cell-Mediated Suppression of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection."
Kaposi's sarcoma - "Kaposi's sarcoma and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Following the Diagnosis of AIDS."
Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "Detection of the Herpesvirus-Like DNA Sequences in Matched Specimens of Semen and Blood from Patients with AIDS-Related Kaposi's sarcoma by Polymerase Chain Reaction in situ Hybridization."
Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "Propagation of a Human Herpesvirus from AIDS-Associated Kaposi's sarcoma."
Long-Term Non Progressors - "Hemophilia and Nonprogressing Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection."
Occupational Risk - "A Critical Review of the Literature on Sharps Injuries: Epidemiology, Management of Exposures and Prevention."
Pain Management - "Underestimation and Undertreatment of Pain in HIV Disease: Multicentre Study."
Primary Care - "Insurance Type and Satisfaction with Medical Care among HIV-Infected Men."
Prostitution (HIV) - "HIV-1 Infection among Female Commercial Sex Workers in Rural Thailand."
Screening (HIV) - "Evaluation of a System using Oral Mucosal Transudate for HIV-1 Antibody Screening and Confirmatory Testing."
Social Services - "Meeting the Service Needs of HIV-Infected Persons: Is the Ryan White CARE Act Succeeding?."
TB/HIV Coinfection - "Adherence to Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy among HIV-Infected Persons in Chiang Rai, Thailand."
TB/HIV Coinfection - "Chest Radiograph Interpretation of Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia, Bacterial Pneumonia, and Pulmonary Tuberculosis in HIV-Positive Patients: Accuracy, Distinguishing F
TB/HIV Coinfection - "The Effect of the 1993 European Revision of the AIDS Case Definition in Italy: Implications for Modelling the HIV Epidemic."
Transmission (HIV) - "An Association Between HIV-1 Subtypes and Mode of Transmission in Cape Town, South Africa."
Transmission (HIV) - "Male Circumcision and Susceptibility to HIV Infection among Men in Tanzania."
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