Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . May 26th, 1997
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Conference Coverage (Blood Safety) - HIV/HCV Multiplex Assay Shows High Specificity
Conference Coverage (NCVDG) - Live, IFN-Producing AIDS Vaccine Moves Forward
Conference Coverage (NCVDG) - Merck HIV DNA Vaccine Protects Monkeys; Human Trials Begin
Conference Coverage (NCVDG) - Polio Replicons Attempt Anti-HIV Mucosal Immunity
Conference Coverage (NCVDG) - Stable Disease, Better Health in Kids on DROVAC Vaccine Therapy
Conference Coverage (NCVDG) - U.S. AIDS Vaccine Trials Focus on CTL Responses
Conference Coverage (NCVDG) - Vaccine Therapy Targets Antigens for CTL Attack
AIDS Research - Ho To Serve As Senior HIV/AIDS Consultant For Bentley Health Care
AIDS Research (Lamivudine) - Glaxo Wellcome and Biochem Pharma Awarded the 1997 Prix Galien Canada For 3TC
AIDS Therapies - Crixivan Now Available From Many Pharmacies
AIDS Therapies - WHO Welcomes New AIDS Treatments But Warns Against Excessive Optimism
AIDS Therapies (Clinical Trials) - Forum Will Discuss Use of Plasma RNA in Clinical Trials
CMV Retinitis - Antisense Drug Prolongs Response, Lowers Retinal Detachment Rate
Coinfection (HIV/HCV) - ICGN Development Dominates Disease Course in Some
Controlled Substances - Study Rejects Medicinal Marijuana
Cryptococcus neoformans - Researchers Find Existing Drugs Can Stop Fungus That Attacks AIDS Patients
Cytokinesis (MAC) - Neutrophils from AIDS Patients Can Inhibit M. avium Growth
Diagnostics - Saliva Diagnostic Systems Receives ISO 9002 Registration
Drug Research - Emerging Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Drug Research Meeting Schedule
Education - Study Refutes Condom-Sex Link
Genetics - HIV Infection Kinetics and Telomere Lengths
Industry News (Clinical Trials) - Enrollment of 2,500 Patients for Phase III Clinical Trial of Remune Completed
Industry News (Saquinavir) - Hoffman-La Roche Submits NDA for New Formulation of HIV Protease Inhibitor
International (Africa) - AIDS Epidemic Runs Riot In South Africa
International (Africa) - AIDS Ravages Prisons In Zambia
Kaposi's Sarcoma (Lidakol) - LIDAK Reports Additional Data from Kaposi's Sarcoma Trial at Conference
Pediatrics - Study Provides Baseline Measurements of Viral Load in Pediatric AIDS
Testing - HIV Home Test Sales Allowed To Continue In Kentucky
Transmission - HIV Risk in Women May Be Enhanced
Transmission (HIV) - Contraceptive Film is First Spermicide Shown Safe in Regard To HIV Transmission
Transmission (MAC) - MAC-Related Respiratory Disease Linked to Hot Tubs
Diagnostics (HIV-1) - "Detection of HIV-1 RNA Subtypes with Transcription-Mediated Amplification."
Diagnostics (TB) - "Surrogate Marker for Active, Preclinical Tuberculosis in HIV Infection."
Diagnostics (Viral Nucleic Acids) - "An Automated System (COBAS AMPLICOR) for Routine Diagnostic Detection and Quantitation of Viral Nucleic Acids."
HIV Vaccines - "New Immunogen Representing HIV-1 Envelope Variability."
Immunology (HIV-1) - "A Novel Leusine Zipper Protein Expression Controlled by the HIV-1 Tat and p53."
Kaposi's Sarcoma (Epidemiology) - "HHV8 and Kaposi's Sarcoma in HIV Seronegative Italian Patients DNA Detection in KS Lesions, Uninvolved Skin and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells."
Opportunistic Infection (Ehrlichiosis) - "Rapidly Fatal Seronegative Ehrlichiosis as the First Opportunistic Infection in an Immunodeficient Man."
Viral Photoinactivation - "Cross-Linking of the G Protein of Vesicular Stomatitis: Virus at the Trans-Membrane Region During Photoinactivation."
AIDS Therapies (Guidelines) - "British HIV Association Guidelines for Antiretroviral Treatment of HIV Seropositive Individuals."
Antisense Technology - "Enhancement or Inhibition of HIV-1 Replication by Intracellular Expression of Sense or Antisense RNA Targeted at Different Intermediates of Reverse Transcription."
Antisense Technology - "Stable Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Resistance in Transformed CD4+ Monocytic Cells Treated with Multitargeting HIV-1 Antisense Sequences Incorporated int
HIV Gene Therapy - "Hematopoietic Stem Cell-Based Gene Therapy for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: Efficient Transduction and Expression of RevM10 in Myeloid Cells in vivo and in vitro."
Hemophilia - "Thrombocytopenia in HIV-Infected and Uninfected Hemophiliacs."
Kaposi's sarcoma - "Monoclonal Origin of Multicentric Kaposi's sarcoma Lesions."
Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "Identification of Two Homologs of the Kaposi's sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (Human Herpesvirus 8) in Retroperitoneal Fibromatosis of Different Macaque Species."
Nephropathy - "Clinical Response to Prolonged Corticosteroids in a Patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Associated Nephropathy."
Pathogenesis - "Adenosine Deaminase Binding to Human CD26 Is Inhibited by HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein gp120 and Viral Particles."
TB/HIV Coinfection - "Association of Tuberculosis Risk with the Degree of Tuberculin Reaction in HIV-Infected Patients."
Transmission - "Anatomic Dissociation Between HIV-1 and Its Endogenous Inhibitor in Mucosal Tissues."
Virology - "Development of AIDS in a Chimpanzee Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1."
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