Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . December 18th, 1995
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Screening (Blood Donors) - New Method Enables Large-Scale Testing for Parvovirus B19
Blood Banking - Pooled Plasma Derivatives Are Unlikely Mode of CJD Transmission
Blood Substitutes - Breakthrough in Liquid Ventilation Research Announced
Chagas Disease - Endemic Area Residents Are Unaware of Specific Risk
Diagnostics - Viral-Load Diagnostic Test to be Studied by Insurance Company
Industry News (Clinical Trials) - Results of Stem Cell Gene Therapy Trial Presented
Industry News (Joint Venture) - Development/Distribution of Spartaject Busulfan Collaborators Named
Industry News (Transplantation) - Approach May Enhance Bone Marrow Function
Industry News (Transplantation) - Disease-Free Stem Cell Transplants May Contribute to Immune System Recovery
Industry News (Transplantation) - Lenograstim More Potent than Filgrastim in Mobilizing Stem Cells
Industry News (Transplantation) - Therapeutic Role of Stem Cell Selection/Transplantation Described
International (Asia) - India Faces Major AIDS Burden by End of Decade
Transmission (HCV) - Nosocomial Infection Not Uncommon
Transmission (HIV) - Transfusion-Acquired HIV Is Still A Concern in Managing Childhood Anemia
Transmission (Hepatitis A) - Contaminated Factor 8 Is Implicated in South African Outbreak
Banking (Blood Safety) - "Use of Seroconversion Panels to Estimate the Reduction in the 'Window' Period Between the Appearance of Nucleic Acid and Serological Markers in HIV, HBV and HCV Infected Blood."
Banking (Diagnostics HBV) - "PCR-Based HBV DNA Detection in Postseroconversion Sera: Implications for Rejection of Blood and Tissue Donors."
Banking (Donor Selection) - "A One Year Review of Tissue Donor Selection."
Banking (HIV Diagnostics) - "HIV Transmission by Transplantation of Allograft Skin, Development of a Reliable Routine HIV Screening Test: A Study Project."
Bioengineered Tissue (Bone) - "Bioactive Glass as Grafting Material in Experimental Defects."
Bioengineered Tissue (Bone) - "Biological Bone Replacement Materials: Is Clinical Application 'Only One Jump Ahead'?."
Pathogenesis (Malaria) - "Sera From Patients with Falciparum Malaria Induce Substance P Gene Expression in Cultured Human Brain Microvessel Endothelial Cells."
Tissue Banking - "Allografts for Tumour Surgery."
Blood Banking - "Fatal Pneumopathy in Children after Bone Marrow Transplantation - Report from the Italian Registry."
Blood Banking (HAV) - "An Outbreak of Hepatitis A among South African Patients with Hemophilia: Evidence Implicating Contaminated Factor VIII Concentrate As the Source."
Diagnostics - "Detection of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Viral Sequences in Fulminant Hepatic Failure of Unknown Etiology."
Transfusion - "Mechanisms of Alloimmunization and Immunosuppression by Blood Transfusions in an Inbred Rodent Model."
Transmission (HCV) - "Intrafamilial Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus among the Population of an Endemic Area of Japan."
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