AIDS Weekly

Screening (HIV) - Enhanced Accuracy Needed for Assays Used in Developing Countries

Transmission - Transmitting HIV Now Criminal Offense

DNA Vaccine (HIV-1) - "Expression and Immunogenicity of a DNA Vaccine Containing the Genes for HIV-1 gag/pol."

Diagnostics (HCV) - "HCV RNA Significance in Mother-to-Infant Transmission of Hepatitis C."

Diagnostics (TB/HIV) - "Clinical Utility of Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests in the Setting of MTB-HIV Coinfection."

Disease Associations (HIV/Cancer) - "HIV-1 Infection of Endothelial Cells Facilitates Development of Extranodal AIDS Associated B Cell Lymphomas."

Drug Development (Antiviral) - "Biochemical Pathways of Inhibiting Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 Replication and Cytopathicity by Andrographolide."

Drug Development (Antiviral) - "Expression, Purification and Characterization of Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Protease in E. coli."

Epidemiology (HCV) - "Virus and its Genotypes in Patients Suffering from Chronic Hepatitis."

HIV Vaccines (Animal Models) - "Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses (SIVs) Lacking the nef Gene Have Been Shown to Give Efficient Protection Against Challenge with Full-Length Pathogenic SIV."

Kaposi's Sarcoma (Epidemiology) - "Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) is More Common in HIV-1 Than in HIV-2 Infected Patients Despite the High Prevalence of Human Herpes Virus 8 (HHV8) in Both."

Kaposi's Sarcoma (HHV-8) - "Human Herpesvirus-8 DNA and RNA in Kaposi's Sarcoma Lesions and Peripheral Blood, and Serological Responses to HHV-8 Antigens."

Kaposi's Sarcoma (Pathogenesis) - "Cyclin D1 and Retinoblastoma Gene Expression in Kaposi's Sarcoma."

Kaposi's Sarcoma (Pathogenesis) - "Induction of Inflammatory Response Genes in AIDS-KS Cells by HIV-1 Tat Protein."

Antisense Technology - "Specific Inhibition of in vitro Reverse Transcription using Antisense Oligonucleotides Targeted to the TAR Regions of HIV-1 and HIV-2."

Diagnostics (HIV) - "Blood Collection on Filter Paper: A Practical Approach to Sample Collection for Studies of Perinatal HIV Transmission."

Disease Management - "CD4⁺ T-Lymphocyte Counts in HIV Infection: Are European Standards Applicable to African Patients?"

Drug Development - "Role of Population Pharmacokinetics in Drug Development: A Pharmaceutical Industry Perspective."

Education and Prevention - "Anthropological Research and the Politics of HIV Prevention: Towards a Critique of Policy and Priorities in the Age of AIDS."

Education and Prevention - "Effectiveness of Condoms in Preventing HIV Transmission."

HIV Vaccines - "Primary Proliferative Responses to Peptides of HIV gag p24."

Human Papillomavirus (Transmission) - "Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Is a Major Risk Factor for Detection of Human Papillomavirus DNA in Esophageal Brushings."

Immunology - "Early HIV-1 Envelope-Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Responses in Vertically Infected Infants."

Immunology - "Human Immunodeficiency Virus gp120 Inhibits Interleukin-12 Secretion by Human Monocytes: An Indirect Interleukin-10-Mediated Effect."

Neuroscience - "Peripheral Neuropathy in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients with the Diffuse Infiltrative Lymphocytosis Syndrome."

Neuroscience - "Pharmacotherapy of HIV Dementia."

Obstetrics - "Cigarette Smoking and Maternal-Child HIV Transmission."

Obstetrics - "Maternal Serum Vitamin A Levels Are Not Associated with Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV-1 in the United States."

Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia - "Cytokine Profiles in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid and Blood in HIV-Seropositive Patients with Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia."

Primary Care - "Does HIV Status Influence the Outcome of Patients Admitted to a Surgical Intensive Care Unit? A Prospective Double Blind Study."

Virology (Filtration) - "Efficient Removal of Viruses by a Novel Polyvinylidene Fluoride Membrane Filter."