Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . May 8th, 1995
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Screening - Double-Repetitive PCR Equal to RFLP
Drug Resistance - (beta)-Lactamase Crucial in Resistance to Certain Mycobacteria
Immigration - Lax Testing, Follow-Up Blamed for TB Increase
Infection Control - Health Workers at Greater TB Risk at Home than at Work
International Migration - Texas, Mexico Agree to Cooperative Disease Control Plan
International/Canada - Inmates in Three Ontario Prisons "Can't Escape TB"
Opportunistic Infections - Tuberculous Pancreatic Abscess Seen in AIDS Patients
Prisons - Texas Family of Dead Inmate Sues Harris County Jail over TB
Prognosis - Serum Soluble IL-2 Receptor Indicates Course of TB
Public Health/Illinois - 29 Test Positive in Suburban Chicago's Niles West High School
Public Health/Kentucky - Infected Aide at Elementary School Prompts TB Tests of 350-400
Public Health/Maine - Officials Expand Investigation in Wake of Student with Active TB
Public Health/Maryland - 12 in Carroll County Test Positive for TB after Exposure
Public Health/New York - Supreme Court Judge Orders TB Patient To Stay in Hospital
Public Health/Pennsylvania - Resorts in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains Respond Calmly to TB
Vaccine Design - Bacterial BCG Vector Could Advance TB Vaccine
Diagnostics - "Tuberculosis of the Trachea and Major Bronchi: Evaluation with Conventional and Spiral CT."
Diagnostics - TB - "CT of Fleural Tuberculosis: The Double Band Sign."
Disease Associations - "Anti-M. tuberculosis Antibodies in HIV-TB."
Disease Associations - "Pulmonary Disease in HIV Infection: The Changing Spectrum."
Drug Development - TB - "Synthesis of the Mycobacterial Arabinose Donor (beta)-D-Arabinofuranosyl-1-Monophosphoryldecaprenol."
Drug Evaluation - TB - "Effect of Lipophilicity at N-1 on Activity of Fluoroquinolones Against Mycobacterium."
Epidemiology - TB - "A Tuberculosis Outbreak in Cuba with a Drug-Sensitive Strain Also Found in New York City."
Diagnostics - Multiplex PCR - "Multiplex PCR for Identifying Mycobacterial Isolates."
Drug Resistance - New Approach to Therapy - "Enhancement of Drug Susceptibility of Multi-Drug Resistant Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Ethambutol and Dimethyl Sulphoxide."
International/Australia - Overview - "Tuberculosis in Australia, 1989-1992 - Bacteriologically Confirmed Cases and Drug Resistance."
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