Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . July 15th, 1996
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Blood Banking (Safety) - Psoralen and UVA May Eliminate Chagas Agent
Occupational Risk - CDC Updates Guidelines on Post-HIV Exposure Prophylaxis
Adoptive Immunotherapy - Rapid Activation and Expansion of Antiviral and Antitumor CTLs
Adoptive Immunotherapy - Serum Enhances Generation of HIV Specific Killer T Cells
Diagnosis - ALT Not Useful for HCV Infection in Hemodialysis Patients
HIV Strain (Group O) - Rare HIV Strain Found for First Time in U.S.
Hemophilia - Initiative Support Announced To Improve Care in Developing Nations
Immunology - Increase in Diphtheria Antitoxin Levels in Donors Coincides with Vaccine Use
Thrombosis - PAI Inhibitors Enhance Clot Lysis Without Causing Bleeding
Transfusion (Hepatitis C) - General Tracing of Infected Blood Components Has Limited Merit
Transplantation (Bone Marrow) - Acyclovir May have Antiviral Effect on HHV-6
Vectors (Immune Response) - Transfection of IL-10 Reduces the Anti-Vector Host Immune Response
Disease Associations - "Orthotopic Liver Transplantation and Diabetes Mellitus."
Gene Transfer (Therapeutic) - "Recombinant Gene Transfer: Lessons From Viruses and Applications to Human Disease."
Immunology (Blood Enzymes) - "Enzymes Involved in Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis Can Act as IGFBP-Proteases."
Pathogenesis (Malaria) - "Regulation of Erythropoiesis in Malaria: Role of Interleukin-12 in Anemia."
Testing (Growth Hormone Levels) - "22K Growth Hormone Exclusion Assay (22K GHEA): A Method for Measurements of Non-22K GH Isoforms in Human Blood."
Blood Substitutes - "Modeling of Oxygen Uptake in Perfluorocarbon Emulsions: Some Comparisons with Uptake by Blood."
Diagnostics (HCV) - "An ELISA for the Detection of Antibody to the Core Antigen of Hepatitis C Virus: Use in Diagnosis and Analysis of Indeterminate Samples."
Diagnostics (HCV) - "Evaluation of PCR and Nested PCR for Laboratory Diagnosis of Hepatitis C Virus Infection."
Diagnostics (HCV) - "Relevance of RIBA-3 Supplementary Test to HCV PCR Positivity and Genotypes for HCV Confirmation of Blood Donors."
Hemodialysis - "Infection with Hepatitis GB Virus C in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis."
Hemophilia - "Haemophilia and HIV Infection in Hong Kong."
Hemophilia - "Importance of Age at Infection with HIV-1 for Survival and Development of AIDS in UK Haemophilia Population."
Human Parvovirus B19 - "Detection of Human Parvovirus B19 DNA in Plasma Pools and Blood Products Derived from These Pools: Implications for Efficiency and Consistency of Removal of B19 DNA during Manufacture."
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