Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . July 24th, 1995
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Transfusion/Blood Filtration - Experts Recommend Leukocyte Depletion Should Be Standard
Blood Banking - Committee Studies HIV Contaminated Blood
Commentary - Don't Let Bigotry Kill Ryan White
Diagnosis/HCV - Site-Directed Serology of Structural Proteins Designates Acute or Chronic Infection
Diagnostics - New HBV DNA Test May Have Role in Treatment Assessment
Hepatitis A Virus - National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Issues Alert
Hepatitis B Virus - Foundation Invited To Attend Board Meeting in Belgium
Industry News/Treatment - Research Agreement To Develop Clotrimazole for Sickle Cell Anemia
Therapy/Cord Blood - Stem Cells Show Promise for Both Transplantation and Gene Therapy
Transplantation/Acute Myeloid Leukemia - Simvastatin Is a Potential Purging Agent for Autologous BMT
Virology/HTLV-I - Some Carriers May Have Seronegative Test Results
Xenotransplantation - AIDS Activist Battles for Baboon Marrow Transplant
Upcoming Meeting - Blood Substitutes and Related Products Conference Is Slated for October
Diagnostics - Evaluation - "The Comparison of Rapid Test HIVR, a RAPID HIV-1 and 2 Antibody Test to EIA and Western Blot."
Diagnostics - TB - "Prolonged Incubation of Blood and Bone Marrow Cultures with the BACTEC TB System Does Not Increase Microbial Recovery."
Immunology - "Recombinant Hepatitis E Virus Epitopes Associated with Acute and Convalescent Humoral Immune Responses."
Pathogenesis - "Anti-Metastatic Effect of a Blood Fraction from Cancer Patients."
Transfusion Medicine - "Effect of Prior Chemotherapy on Peripheral Blood Progenitor Cell (PBPC) Harvests in Patients with Breast Cancer."
Transfusion Medicine - "Serial Studies of Peripheral Blood Myeloma Cells in Patients with Multiple Myeloma: When is the Optimal Time for Stem Cell Harvest?."
Blood Banking - Epileptic Blood Donors - "Adverse Reactions in Blood Donors with a History of Seizures or Epilepsy."
Hemophilia - "Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Genotypes in Japanese Hemophiliacs."
Hemophilia - Screening for Mutations - "Screening for Mutations in Haemophilia A Patients by Multiplex PCR-SSCP, Southern Blotting and RNA Analysis: The Detection of a Genetic Abnormality in the Factor VIII Gene in 30 out of 35 Patients."
Hemophilia B - "Circulating Human Factor IX Produced in Keratin-Promoter Transgenic Mice: A Feasibility Study for Gene Therapy of Haemophilia B."
International/Greece - HTLV Seroprevalence - "Prevalence of Antibodies to Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Types I and II in Volunteer Blood Donors and High-Risk Groups in Northwestern Greece."
Sepsis - ICU Therapy Trial - "Effect of the Antiendotoxic Agent, Taurolidine, in the Treatment of Sepsis Syndrome: A Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Trial."
Sepsis - Long-Term Survival in ICU - "Long-Term Survival after Intensive Care Unit Admission with Sepsis."
Seroconversion - "Spontaneous Loss of HBeAg and Development of Anti-HBe During Long-Term Follow-Up of Blood Donors Found to Be HBsAg-Positive."
Surgery - Intraoperative Autotransfusion - "Cost Effectiveness of Intraoperative Autotransfusion in Total Hip Arthroplasty Surgery."
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