TB and Outbreaks Week

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . February 13th, 1995

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Infection Control - TB Control Measures Effective at New York Hospital

BCG Vaccine - Impact of Strain on Efficacy Unknown

BCG Vaccine - Vaccination Justified for TB Control in Healthcare Workers

Diagnosis - Gallium/Thallium Sign of Mycobacterial Infection in HIV⁺

Disease Presentation - Fungal Corneal Ulcers Reported in Woman with TB

Drug Resistance - Los Angeles County Responds to MDR-TB

Epidemiology - Number of AIDS Cases Stabilizing

HIV/TB Therapy - Drug Malabsorption Contributes to Resistance in HIV⁺

Industry News - Rights to Thalidomide under Rockefeller Patent Attained

International/Worldwide - WHO Predicts 30 Million Deaths from TB in 1990s

Occupational Exposure - CDC Healthcare Worker Guidelines Continue To Evolve

Opportunistic Infections - Disease from Mycobacteria Common in HIV⁺

Policy - AIDS Research Evaluation Ordered

Prisons - California County Inmate with Active TB Escapes

Prisons - Facilities Are Breeding Ground for TB

Public Health/Connecticut - City Housing Authority Reports Outbreak of TB

Public Health/Funding - Will Cuts in U.S. Budget Impair Public Health Efforts?

Public Health/Massachusetts - Postal Workers To Be Tested for TB

Public Health/Michigan - Morgue Workers Tested for TB

Public Health/New York - High School Teacher May Have Exposed Students to TB

Public Health/Ohio - County Asked To Relocate TB Clinic

Public Health/West Virginia - Homeless Shelter Quarantined for TB

Diagnostics - "Similar Induration Sizes in HIV (+) and HIV (-) PPD Reactors."

Diagnostics - "Sensitivity and Specificity of Tuberculin Antigen of Multitest CMI^R Device."

Prognosis - "Improved Outcome of HIV Infected Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDRTB) in a Nonoutbreak Setting at an Inner-City Hospital in New York City."

Therapy - DOT - "Improved Outcomes in a Cohort of HIV Infected Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Enrolled in a Directly Observed Therapy Tuberculosis Program."

Therapy - TB - "Twice Weekly INH vs RIF and PZA for TB Prophylaxis in HIV Infected Adults."

Vaccines - BCG - "Differences in Immune Responses of Orally Vaccinated Mice with Five BCG Strains."

International/United Kingdom - Guidelines - "Control and Prevention of Tuberculosis in the United Kingdom: Code of Practice 1994."

TB/HIV Coinfection - Adverse Reactions to Therapy - "Adverse Reactions to Antituberculosis Therapy in a Patient with AIDS."

Thyroid - Mycobacterial Thyroiditis - "Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis with Paravertebral Abscess Formation and Thyroid Involvement."

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