Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . May 29th, 1995
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Blood Banking/Pooled Platelet Concentrates - No Support Found for Prolonged Storage of Pools
Blood Banking/Platelet Quality - Quantitation of Antigens Serves in Evaluating Transfusion Quality
Blood Banking/Safety - Red Cross Says Infected Blood Came from U.S. Prison
Blood Banking/Viral Inactivation - Nucleic Acid May Be Key Target for Photoinactivation
Blood Substitutes - Success Reported in Using PolyHeme
Borrelia Burgdorferi - OspA Appears Protective Against Lyme Disease
Diagnostics/Chagas' Disease - PCR Is Useful for Detection and Treatment Evaluation
Diagnostics/HIV-1 - Branched DNA Assay May Be Useful for Monitoring Disease
Genetics - Mutations Causing fXIII A Subunit Deficiency Are Identified
Hemophilia A/Gene Therapy - Sequences in Coding Region of Human fVIII cDNA Identified
Industry News/Diagnostics - Detection of HIV Possible Hours after Infection, Company Reports
Industry News/Transfusion - Company Plans Phase III Trial of Blood Platelet Drug
Industry News/Transplantation - Product Cleared To Identify Prospective Organ Recipients
Industry News/Transplantation - Trial Data of Anti-Tac Antibody for Kidney Transplant Patients Reported
International/Africa-Asia - Long-Term Battle with Hepatitis B Continues
Transplantation - Livers from Anti-HBc/Anti-HBs Positive Donors Should Not Be Used
Transplantation - Non-Heart-Beating Donors Offer Good Source of Kidneys
Virology - Risk Factors for HCV Infection May Differ According to Genotype
Biotechnology - "Immortalization of Plasma Cells by Plasmid DNA."
Drug Development - "Production of a Recombinant Anti-Rhesus MAb with Insect Cells: Interest in Public Health."
Immunology - "New Approaches to Human Monoclonal Antibody Production: Use of Transgenic Mice."
Therapy - "Human MAbs Reactive with Public Determinants on HLA Class 1 Antigens."
Therapy - "Isolation of Human Recombinant Anti-Rhesus D Antibodies from a Hyperimmunized Donor."
Transmission - "Serologic Markers Of Hepatitis B (HBV) And Hepatitis C (HCV) In Patients With Renal Transplants (RTP)."
Diagnostics - Reusing Test Membranes - "Evaluation of Performance of Reused HIVCHEK 1+2 Test Blocks Which Have Shown Negative Result: A Reliable Method for Rural Hospital?"
Diphtheria - Immunity in Blood Donors - "Diphtheria Immunity in UK Blood Donors."
Infection Control - Percutaneous Injury - "Efficacy and Cost Effectiveness of a Needleless Intravenous Access System."
International/Canada - Surgical Precautions - "Reported Use of Strategies by Surgeons to Present Transmission of Bloodborne Diseases."
International/Canada - Universal Precautions - "Beyond Universal Precautions."
Occupational Risk - Liver Transplant Centers - "Prevalence of Hepatitis C Infection in Health Care Workers Affiliated with a Liver Transplant Center."
Seroprevalence - Hospital Employment Applicants - "Prevalence of Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Markers among Hospital Employment Applicants."
Transfusion - Immunophenotypic Alterations in SCA - "Blood Transfusions and Immunophenotypic Alterations of Lymphocyte Subsets in Sickle Cell Anemia."
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