Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . July 7th, 1997
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AIDS Therapies - Draft HIV/AIDS Treatment Guidelines Available
Blood Banking - Transfusion-Associated Sepsis Causes Five Deaths
Blood Banking (HGV) - Where Should the Line be Drawn on Testing for Infectious Agents?
Drug Resistance - Nisin Evaluated for Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Treatment
Education - Awards Competition Nominations Sought for HIV/AIDS Programs in the Workplace
Education (Health) - Recommendations Promote Comprehensive Approach to Student Health
HIV Testing - Confide HIV Service Withdrawn from Market
HIV Testing - Voluntary Testing Programs Expanded Around The Nation
Hepatitis A - Havrix Cleared for Preventing HAV in Chronic Liver Disease Patients
International (Asia) - Natural Disasters in North Korea Contribute to Food Shortage, Risks for Disease
Needle Exchange Programs - About One-Third of AIDS Cases are Associated with Injecting Drug Use
Pediatrics - Two Drugs Better Than One for Treating Children with Symptomatic HIV
Pertussis Vaccines - Clinical Trial for DTAP-IPV Vaccine Announced
Staphylococcus aureus - Japanese Case Due to Vancomycin Resistant S. aureus
Viral Myocarditis - WHO/CDC Work to Determine Virus Strains Responsible for Malaysian Outbreak
Epidemiology (Kaposi's Sarcoma) - "Risk Factors for Childhood Kaposi's Sarcoma in Uganda: A Case-Control Study."
Hepatitis Vaccines - "Use of Inactivated Hepatitis A Vaccine to Interrupt a Community-wide Hepatitis A Outbreak."
Vaccine (Prophylaxis) - "Use of Immune Globulin (IG) and Hepatitis A Vaccine by International Travelers from the United States."
Candida - "Rapid Identification of Candida Species in Blood Cultures by a Clinically Useful PCR Method."
Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis - "An Indirect Immunofluorescence Assay Using a Cell Culture-Derived Antigen for Detection of Antibodies to the Agent of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis."
Kidney Cancer - "Predictors of Mortality from Kidney Cancer in 332,547 Men Screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial."
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