Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . June 12th, 1995
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Conference Coverage - Surgery Improves Cure Rate in Advanced MDR-TB
Conference Coverage - DOT Refusal Aided MDR-TB Outbreak in California School
Conference Coverage - Proportion of TB Cases among Foreign Born in US on Rise
Conference Coverage - TB Patients Who Leave Hospitals Against Medical Advise a Threat
Diagnosis - Q-Beta Replicase Assay Detects M. tuberculosis Quickly
Epidemiology - New TB Cases Drop 3.7 Percent
Epidemiology/Kentucky - Kentucky Gaining Against Tuberculosis, With Sharp Decrease In Cases
Non-Human TB - Two Years After Bovine TB Scare, Deer Return to Virginia Petting Zoo
Occupational Risk - Suspect With TB Deliberately Coughs Into Pennsylvania Police Officer's Face
Pediatrics - TB Deaths among Children in Developing Countries Unknown
Public Health/California - Santa Cruz Officials Say TB Screening of School Kids Not Cost-Effective
Public Health/Connecticut - Manufacturer Tests 250 Workers
Public Health/Louisiana - Three Employees of Elementary School Declared "Not Infected"
Public Health/Texas - Amarillo Schools Report Five Cases of Active TB
Public Health/Texas - TB Treatment For El Paso Students Will Carry Hefty Price, Official Predicts
Public Health/Wisconsin - Doc With TB Agrees to Home Quarantine After Damaging Testimony
Testing - False-Positive TB Skin Tests at Pediatric Clinic Seen
At-Risk Populations - "Pleural Effusions in HIV Positive Patients: A Review of 231 Cases."
Diagnostics - "Diagnosis and Management of Tuberculous Spondylitis in Adults."
Disease Associations - "Influence of Tuberculosis on HIV Replication."
Disease Associations - "PPD Response and HIV Viral Burden Among HIV Infected Injecting Drug Users Without Active TB."
Disease Associations - "Striking Synergy in HIV Replication with Tuberculosis Co-Infection."
Disease Associations - "The Changing Spectrum of Pulmonary Disorders in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: A Post Mortem Study."
Threatment Options - TB - "Spinal Tuberculosis: Review of Anterior Approaches in 125 Cases as the Best Choice for Surgical Treatment."
Diagnostics - "Double-Repetitive-Element PCR Method for Subtyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clinical Isolates."
Immunology - "Purification and Characterization of a Low-Molecular-Mass T-Cell Antigen Secreted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
Nosocomial - Infection Control Measures - "Preventing the Nosocomial Transmission of Tuberculosis."
Nosocomial - MDR-TB Outbreak - "Tuberculosis in Health Care Workers at a Hospital with an Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
Susceptibility Testing - "Rapid Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (H37Ra) by Flow Cytometry."
TB/HIV Coinfection - "DNA Fingerprinting and Phenotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Seropositive and HIV-Seronegative Patients in Tanzania. DOUBLEQU
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