Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . August 11th, 1997
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Immunology - Plasma Cells Are Not Derived from Differentiation of B Cells
Anthrax - Last State-Owned Vaccine Lab and Sole Producer of Anthrax Vaccine is For Sale
Blood Banking - Court Says Blood Bank Must Provide Details About HIV Infected Donor
Cancer Vaccines - Immune Response Produced in Multiple Myeloma Patients
Diagnostics (TB) - IFN-(gamma) Has Advantages Over TST in HIV+ Patients
International (North America) - Canadian Health Minister and Consumer Groups Exchange Ideas About Blood Safety
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior - Donor Motives Predict Reactions to Bone Marrow Donation
Legal Issues - Law Helps Some HIV Infected Hemophiliacs Sue, While Others Settle
Malaria - Two Cases of Malaria, Four Messages
Needle Exchange Programs - Witnesses Testify Against Two Charged with Giving Out Needles
Occupational Risk - Management Of Significant Occupational Exposures To Hepatitis C Virus
Prophylaxis - Recognition of Need for DVT/PE Prevention Spurs Interest in Dosing Alternatives
Thrombocytopenia - Neumega Approval Recommended for Cancer Patients with Platelet Deficiency
Transplantation - Engraftment Results with Fresh CFU-GM Different from Those of Ex Vivo Expanded Graft
Transplantation - Gene Gun DNA Transfer Useful for Graft Manipulation
Transplantation - Hammerhead Ribozymes Target Graft-vs-Host Disease-Causing Proteins
Transplantation - Plasmid-Mediated Gene Transfer into the Thymus Possible
Virology - DNA from Different Retroviruses Exchange Genetic Information
Blood Substitutes - "Blood Substitutes and the Intestinal Microcirculation: Extravasation and Ultrastructural Alterations."
Blood Substitutes - "Response to Hemorrhage in Rats After Hemodilution with Pentastarch, Peg-Bovine Hemoglobin, and (alpha)-hemoglobin."
Diagnostics (HCV) - "Investigation of a Hepatitis C Positive Population from a VA Medical Center for the Presence of Hepatitis G Infection Using the Sorin Biomedica Gen-eti-k Deja Kit."
Diagnostics (HCV) - In Situ RT-PCR, RT-PCR Viral Load, Histological Diagnosis, and Clinical Outcome in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: Absence of HCV Recurrence Indicated by In Situ-RT-PCR Analys
Diagnostics (HIV) - "Comparison of Branched DNA and PCR Technologies for HIV Viral Load Quantitation: Productivity and Workflow Analysis in a Clinical Laboratory."
Diagnostics (HIV-1) - "Quantitation of Plasma HIV-1 RNA Utilizing the Digene Hybrid Capture(R) II Test."
Occupational Risks (Nosocomial) - "The Risks for HIV Infected Health Care Worker[s]."
Blood Banking (GBV-C) - "Infection with Hepatitis G Virus and Its Strain Variant, the GB Agent (GBV-C), among Blood Donors in Japan."
Blood Banking (HBV) - "A Method for Estimating Hepatitis B Virus Incidence Rates in Volunteer Blood Donors."
Blood Banking (Leukocyte Reduction) - "Microdroplet Fluorochromatic Assay for the Enumeration of White Cells (WBCs) in WBC-Reduced Blood Components: Validation and Application for Evaluating Newly Developed WBC-Reduction Filters.
Hemodialysis (GBV-C) - "GB Virus C and Hepatitis C Virus Infections in Hemodialysis Patients in Eight Japanese Centers."
Hereditary Thrombophilia - "Comparison of an Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time with a Russell Viper Venom Time Test in Screening for Factor V-Leiden (FVR506Q)."
Human Papillomavirus - "Interlaboratory Agreement among Results of Human Papillomavirus Type 16 Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays."
Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "Kaposi's sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Infection of Bone Marrow Dendritic Cells from Multiple Myeloma Patients."
Occupational Exposure - "Reducing the Occupational Risk of Infections for the Surgeon: Multicentric National Survey on More Than 15,000 Surgical Procedures."
Platelet Kinetic Studies - "Feasibility of a Rapid Method to Evaluate Platelet Survival Time."
Transfusion - "Effectiveness of a Prospective Physician Self-Audit Transfusion-Monitoring System."
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