Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . November 10th, 1997
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Blood Banking (Chagas' Disease) - Selective T. cruzi Testing Strategy May Be Very Unreliable
Blood Banking (HIV Screening) - p24 Antigen Negative Unit Infects Blood Recipient
Blood Banking (Leishmaniasis) - FML-ELISA Assay and PCR May be Useful in Screening for L. donovani
Chemotherapy - Device May Enable More Targeted Leukemia Treatment
Chronic Granulomatous Disease - Study Advances Development of Gene Therapy for CGD
HIV Testing - Registration For New HIV 1+2+0 Screening Test Granted in France
Hemophilia - Mini-Adenoviral Vector Effective in Hemophilia Gene Therapy Model
Immunization - Flu Shot Recipients Worried About AIDS
Immunology (Plasmodium falciparum) - SL(A-) Phenotype Confers Protection
Industry News (Clinical Trials) - Progen Completes Heparanase Enzyme Pre-Clinical Testing
Inflammatory Disease - New Form Of Gene Therapy Holds Promise For The Future
Metastases - New Technique Detects Cancer Spread in Bone Marrow and Blood
Screening (HIV) - RNA PCR at Late Stage Testing Improves Diagnostic Sensitivity
Screening (HIV-1) - Clade B Is Predominant in North American Blood Donors
Stroke - First Asia Pacific Forum on Stroke Opened in Australia
Transplantation (Increased Risk) - Solid Organ Recipients at Higher Risk for TB
Transplantation (Kidney) - New Drug Reduces Incidence Of Kidney Rejection
Transplantation (Pancreas) - Long-Term Pancreas Transplants Reverse Kidney Abnormalities Caused By Diabetes
Diagnostics (Antiviral Levels) - "Quantitative Determination of Recombinant Interferon B in Human Serum Using Modified Commercial ELISA Kit."
Diagnostics (Mycobacteria) - "Blood Cultures for Mycobacteria. A 6-Year Experience in a University Hospital."
Disease Associations - "Incidence, Risk Factors and Outcome from Tuberculosis in Solid Organ Transplantation. A Case-Control Study."
Disease Associations - "Infectious Disease Complications in Pediatric Lung and Heart Lung Transplant Patients Including Living Donors (LD)."
Hepatitis Therapy - "Interferon-Alpha (INF-(alpha)) as Prophylaxis for Recurrent Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Hepatitis in Liver Transp
Nosocomial Infections - "Gram-Negative Bacteremia in a Hemodialysis Unit Traced to Probable Drain Port Contamination."
Transmission (HCV) - "Influence of Genotype on Vertical Transmission of the Hepatitis C Virus."
Blood Banking (Cord Blood) - "Ethical Issues in Umbilical Cord Blood Banking."
Blood Banking (HCV) - "Outcome of Post-Transfusion Hepatitis C: Disease Severity in Blood-Component Recipients and Their Implicated Donors."
Blood Banking (Safety) - "Analysis of Human Plasma Products: Polymerase Chain Reaction Does Not Discriminate Between Live and Inactivated Viruses."
Cytomegalovirus - "Spread of Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) after Infection of Human Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells: Model of HCMV Latency."
Fibrin Sealants - "Fibrin-Glue Assisted Vasoepididymostomy: A Comparison to Standard End-to-Side Microsurgical Vasoepididymostomy in the Rat Model."
Fibrin Sealants - "Randomised Trial of Single and Repeated Fibrin Glue Compared with Injection of Polidocanol in Treatment of Bleeding Peptic Ulcer."
Fibrin Sealants - "Subcutaneous Tissue Distribution of Vancomycin from a Fibrin Glue/Dacron Graft Carrier."
Transplantation (BMT) - "Outcomes of Transplantation with Matched-Sibling and Unrelated-Donor Bone Marrow in Children with Leukaemia."
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