Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . December 11th, 1995
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Blood Banking (International) - Lab Owner Stands Trial for Murder in Tainted-Blood Case in Germany
Blood Banking (CMV) - Leukocyte-Reduction Is Effective As Screening for Preventing CMV
Blood Banking (Diagnostics) - Chiron Recombinant Strip Immunoblot Assay Gets Good Report
Blood Banking (Stem Cells) - Cord Blood Pioneer Addresses Stanford Physicians
Epidemiology - Transmission Patterns Are Changing in the U.S.
Graft-Versus-Host Disease (Therapy) - Thalidomide Is Confirmed Active in Treating Chronic GVHD
HIV Gene Therapy - Congenital HIV Offers Unique Opportunity for Gene Therapy Rescue
HIV Vaccines - Vaccine Based on Australian HIV Mutant Still Dangerous, Researcher Warns
Industry News (Diagnostics) - Test Identifies HCV Types 1-6
Industry News (Patents and Technology) - Patent for Device/Process to Remove Toxic, Free Hemoglobin from Blood
Industry News (Pathogen Inactivation) - Process for Donated Blood Involving Chemical Compounds Reported
Industry News (Transplantation) - BTI-322 Antibody Used To Prevent/Reverse Organ Transplant Rejection
Industry News (Transplantation) - Leukine Cleared for Use in Allogeneic BMT
Occupational Risk - Needlestick Injury Is Associated with Malaria Transmission
Testing (Legal Issues) - North Carolina Battleground over HIV Testing Continues
Vascular Disease - Problems with Adenovirus Vectors Reported On
Banking (Blood) - "Communication Mechanisms Between the Bedside and the Blood Bank."
Combination Therapies - "Phlebotomy Followed by (alpha)-Interferon Therapy in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C."
Diagnostics (Hepatitis) - "Detection of Hepatitis B Virus Precore Mutation by Ligase Chain Reaction."
Emerging Pathogens - "The Search for Human Infection with Divergent Primate T Lymphotropic Viruses."
Epidemiology (Transmission) - "Sero-Epidemiology of HTLV-I/II in Europe."
Testing (HTLV) - "Molecular Differentiation of HTLV-II by Single Strand Conformation Polymorphism Analysis."
Therapy (Hepatitis) - "A Double-Blind Controlled Trial of Recombinant Interferon Alfa in Hemodialysis Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C."
Vectors (Retroviral) - "Retroviral Vectors for Delivery of IL-12 to the Bone Marrow After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Autografting."
Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior - "Informed Consent for Transfusion Recipients: How Much is Enough?."
AIDS/HIV (International) - "The Epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire: A Review of Data Collected by Projet RETRO-CI from 1987 to 1993."
AIDS/HIV (Obstetrics) - "The Consequences of a Positive Prenatal HIV Antibody Test for Women."
Diagnostics - "Performance of a Rapid, On-Site Human Immunodeficiency Virus Antibody Assay in a Public Health Setting."
Factor VIII Deficiency - "In Vivo Recovery of Factor VIII Following Transfusion: A Survey of Recent Data and Publications to Assess the Influence of Standards Used for Potency Assignment."
Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior - "HIV-1 Seroconversion and Risk Behaviors among Young Men in the US Army."
Needle Exchange Programs - "Reduced Risk of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C among Injection Drug Users in the Tacoma Syringe Exchange Program."
Transfusion (Graft-Versus-Host Disease) - "Diagnosis of Transfusion-Associated Graft-Versus-Host Disease by Polymerase Chain Reaction in Fludarabine-Treated B-Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia."
Transplantation (HCV) - "Hepatitis C Superinfection in Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)-Infected Patients Transplanted with an HCV-Infected Kidney."
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