Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . June 2nd, 1997
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Conference Announcement (TB) - TB Treatment in HIV+ to Be Addressed in Fall Meeting
Diagnostics (TB) - CDC Planning Cost Evaluation for NAA Testing
Arthritis - Arthritis is the Leading Cause of Disability for 40 Million.
Cancer Screening - Employers Can Be Influential In Encouraging Or Reinforcing Cancer Screenings
Chickenpox - CDC Issues Vaccination Reminder
Chickenpox - Varicella Complications May Be Serious Scientists Report
Food Safety - Vice President Gore Releases Plan to Strengthen, Improve Food Safety
Funding (HIV) - Ending Funding For Smaller AIDS, HIV Programs
Funding (TB) - Company Funds American Lung Association Grant Program For Tuberculosis Education
Hantavirus - Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: U.S. Update
Legionnaires' Disease - Legionnaires' Disease Is An Important Cause Of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia.
New Laboratory - CDC Arctic Investigations Program Moves to New Laboratory in Alaska
Pneumoconiosis - Highlights from the CDC's Lung Disease Surveillance Report 1996
Polio - 1996 Outbreaks Reported in Eastern Europe
Streptococcus pneumoniae - Laboratory Shows Bugs Among us Wage War on U.S. Communities
Transmission (HBV) - Centralized Management Key to Preventing Perinatal Hepatitis
Diagnostics (HCV) - "An Artificial Mosaic Protein for the Detection of Antibodies Against Hepatitis C Virus."
Diagnostics (Pneumonia Antibodies) - "A Flow Cytometric Opsonophagocytic Assay for Measuring Functional Antibodies in Persons Immunized with the 23-Valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine."
Diagnostics (Pneumonia) - "Comparison of a Pneumococcal 37-kDa Common Protein Antibody ELISA and a 37-kDa Protein Immune Complex ELISA for Detection of Pneumococcal Antibody."
Diagnostics (Pneumonia) - "Native and Recombinant Streptococcus pneumoniae PsaA: Comparison of Antibodies in Pneumococcal Pneumonia Patient Sera by ELISA."
Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever - "Treatment of Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever with Intravenous Ribavirin."
Colorado Tick Fever Virus - "Detection of Colorado Tick Fever Virus by Using Reverse Transcriptase PCR and Application of the Technique in Laboratory Diagnosis."
Streptococcus pyogenes - "Survey of emm Gene Sequences and T-Antigen Types from Systemic Streptococcus pyogenes Infection Isolates Collected in San Francisco, California; Atlanta, Georgia SEMICOLONSIG
Susceptibility Testing - "Evaluation of a Line Probe Assay Kit for Characterization of rpoB Mutations in Rifampin-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from New York City."
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