AIDS Weekly

Mucosal Vaccines - Intranasal CTB Trial: Systemic, Respiratory, and Genital Responses

Needle Exchange Programs - Witnesses Testify Against Two Charged with Giving Out Needles

Prostitution, Thailand (Behavior) - Thai Prime Minister Vows To End Prostitution, AIDS Patients React

Quality of Care - New Mexico Department of Health Shifts Plans for Care

Virology - DNA from Different Retroviruses Exchange Genetic Information

At-Risk Populations (TB/HIV) - "Tuberculosis and HIV in the Developing World."

Diagnostics (HIV) - "Comparison of Branched DNA and PCR Technologies for HIV Viral Load Quantitation: Productivity and Workflow Analysis in a Clinical Laboratory."

Diagnostics (HIV-1) - "Quantitation of Plasma HIV-1 RNA Utilizing the Digene Hybrid Capture(R) II Test."

Immunology (TB) - "Susceptibility To and Immunization Against Tuberculosis."

Infection Control (TB) - "Migration and Tuberculoses."

Intracellular Immunization (HIV) - "Genetic Approaches for HIV Infection: Promises and Hurdles."

Occupational Risks (Nosocomial) - "The Risks for HIV Infected Health Care Worker[s]."

Chemokines - "A Monoclonal Antibody (12G5) Directed Against CXCR-4 Inhibits Infection with the Dual-Tropic Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Isolate HIV-1(89.6) But Not the T-

Chemokines - "Evolution of HIV-1 Coreceptor Usage Through Interactions with Distinct CCR5 and CXCR4 Domains."

Disease Progression - "In vivo Sequence Variability of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Envelope gp120: Association of V2 Extension with Slow Disease Progression."

Disease Progression (Markers) - "Plasma Viral Load and CD4⁺ Lymphocytes As Prognostic Markers of HIV-1 Infection."

Education and Prevention (Research) - "Communicating with the People about HIV Infection Risk as a Basis for Planning Interventions: Lessons from the Kagera Region of Tanzania."

Immunology - "IL-15 Enhances Immune Functions during HIV Infection."

Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "Detection of Human Herpes Virus 8 (HHV8) in Kaposi sarcoma of the Gastrointestinal Tract."

Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "Kaposi's sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus and Human Herpesvirus 8 (KSHV/HHV8)-Associated Lymphoma of the Bowel: Report of Two Cases in HIV-Positive Men with Secon

Kaposi's sarcoma (Therapy) - "Retinoid Antagonism of NF-IL6: Insight into the Mechanism of Antiproliferative Effects of Retinoids in Kaposi's sarcoma."

Long-Term Non-Progressors - "Genotypic and Phenotypic Characterization of Long Terminal Repeat Sequences from Long-Term Survivors of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection."

Occupational Exposure - "Reducing the Occupational Risk of Infections for the Surgeon: Multicentric National Survey on More Than 15,000 Surgical Procedures."

Oral Candidiasis - "Variations in Fluconazole Susceptibility and DNA Subtyping of Multiple Candida albicans Colonies from Patients with AIDS and Oral Candidiasis Suffering One or More Episodes of Infection."

Pneumocystis carinii - "Simplified Sample Processing Combined with a Sensitive One-Tube Nested PCR Assay for Detection of Pneumocystis carinii in Respiratory Specimens."

Sexual Behavior (Research) - "A Comparison of AIDS-Related Sexual Risk Behaviors among African-American College Students."

TB (Prognosis) - "Neopterin, beta₂ -Microglobulin, and Acute Phase Proteins in HIV-1-Seropositive and -Seronegative Zambian Patients with Tuberculosis."