Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . April 14th, 1997
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Polio - Mass Vaccination Better Than Routine Vaccination
Polio - Planetary Polio Eradication
Case Reports - Tuberculosis Declines, Disease Continues To Be A Concern
Conference Coverage (IUATLD) - Block Grants/Managed Care Threaten TB Control
Education - Program Developed To Teach High School Students About Science of HIV/AIDS
Education and Prevention (HIV) - Failed Prevention Efforts Endanger Lives of American Youth
Education/Funding - State Doles Out $42,500 For Abstinence-Only Sex Education
International (Uganda) - Update on O'Nyong-Nyong Fever in Uganda
Malignant Melanoma - 21st Century Predicts Alarming Incidence of Skin Cancer
Nutrition - White House Conference Urges on Human Nutrition Research
Occupational Risk (TB) - "Cheaper" Masks May Cost More in Long Run
Plasmodium vivax - Georgian Acquires Malaria Through Locally Infected Mosquito
Transplantation (Aortic Heart Valve) - Antimicrobial Processing Did Not Eliminate Contamination
Vaccines (Development) - FDA Licenses Expanded Use for Inactivated Polio Vaccine
Epidemiology (HIV-1 Subtypes) - "Surveillance of HIV-1 Subtypes in 222 US Blood Donors: Identification of First US Subtype A Infection."
HIV-1 Tests (Performance Standards) - "Intra-Shipment Reproducibility of HIV-1 Western Blot Results Reported in Ten Shipment Periods by Laboratories Participating in the CDC MPEP."
Immunology (HIV-1) - "HIV Infection and Induration Size Among Women Reacting to Cutaneous Delayed Type Hypersensitivity (DTH) Testing."
Public Health (TB) - "Sociocultural Strategies and Language Tools: TB Health Care Providers and Asian and Pacific Island (A/PI) Patients, 1996."
TB Therapy (Compliance) - "Comparison of Completion of Tuberculosis (TB) Therapy Rates in Foreign-Born and U.S.-Born Patients Reported in the U.S. in 1993."
Drug Resistance - "Evolution of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactam Resistance (SHV-8) in a Strain of Escherichia coli during Multiple Episodes of Bacteremia."
Occupational Health - "Time Dependence of Blood Concentrations during and after Exposure to a Mixture of Volatile Organic Compounds."
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