Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . March 13th, 1995
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Prophylaxis/AIDS - Dapsone/Pyrimethamine May Prevent Mycobacterial Disease
BCG Vaccine - Multiple Factors Involved in BCG Efficacy Variation
Diagnosis - Abdominal TB Often Misdiagnosed as Carcinomatosis
Diagnosis - Ascitic Fluid pH of Value in Detecting TB Peritonitis
Diagnosis - Fluorophore-Enhanced PCR Useful
Drug Resistance - TB Patients with Abnormal CD4/CD8 Show Relapse Risk
Epidemiology - Hispanic Health Group in California Says TB Hitting Children Hardest
Infection Control - NY Hospital Criticized for Keeping Faulty Records of Staff TB
Infection Control/Airlines - Warning Issued to TB Patients
Infection Control/Nosocomial - Community Infection, Not Nosocomial TB, Is New Jersey's Main Concern
Medical Profession - TB Survivor and Specialist, Dr. J. Duane Jones, Dies at 78
Occupational Risk - Preventing TB in HCWs Depends on Better Diagnosis
Prisons - TB Case Reported at New Haven Correctional Center
Public Health/California - Homeless Woman Loses Court Challenge to Confinement
Public Health/Minnesota - County Gets Emergency Grant To Treat 94 TB-Infected Tibetan Immigrants
Public Health/New York - 100-Plus New York Students Tested after Sixth-Grader's TB Found
Public Health/Texas - Houston High School Students Diagnosed with Active Tuberculosis
Public Health/Washington State - Shelter Pessimistic about Finding 100 Homeless Likely Exposed
TB/Vaccine - Guinea Pig Model A Reported Success
Immunology - "Differentially Expressed Genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
Immunology - "The Effect of Thalidomide on the Cellular Immune Response to Mycobacteria Infection in Mice."
Immunology - BCG - "Involvement of NK Cells in NO Production Induced by Viable Mycobacterium bovis BCG in Mice."
Immunology - TB - "Identification of a SecA Gene from Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
Pathogenesis - "Alteration of Macrophage Gene Expression by Infection with Mycobacteria."
Pathogenesis - MTB - "Mycobacterium haemophilum: A Model System for the Study of M. tuberculosis Cytotoxicity and Intracellular Pathogenesis."
Testing - TB - "Comparing In Vitro Models for the Study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Virulence."
Vaccines - BCG - "Genetic Analysis of Potential Attenuating Deletions in the BCG Vaccine Strain."
Bone/Joint - Pleural Tuberculoma of the Hip - "Multiple Pleural Tuberculomas Associated with a Cold Abscess of the Hip."
Diagnostics - General Overview - "Molecular Biology, Virulence, and Pathogenicity of Mycobacteria."
Drug Resistance - Nosocomial Pathogens - "Trends in Antimicrobial Resistance Among Todays Bacterial Pathogens."
International/Africa - Mycobacterial Infection - "Disseminated Mycobacterium avium Infection among HIV-Infected Patients in Kenya."
M. Tuberculosis - Antigen Promoter Region - "Analysis of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis 85A Antigen Promoter Region."
Nosocomial - Surveillance and Risk - "Epidemiology, Therapy and Costs of Nosocomial Infection."
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