Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . July 10th, 1995
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Diagnosis - Q-Beta Replicase Assay Identifies M. tuberculosis
Documentary - The People's Plague: Tuberculosis In America
Drug Resistance - Dideoxy Fingerprinting Detects Rifampin Resistance
Infection Control - NYC Hospital TB Team Identifies Cases Quickly
Prisons - Correctional Facility Staff Members Being Tested for TB
Prisons - Mississippi Jailers, Prisoners Tested After Former Inmate Suspected Of TB
Prisons/Law Enforcement - Middle Georgia Police Tested for TB After Contact With Prisoner
Public Health/New Jersey - Whitney Houston's Mom Among Choir Members Tested for TB
Public Health/Virginia - Three Schools Dealing With Possible TB Contagion
Screening - KL-6 Useful Marker of Fibrotic Lesions in TB
Therapy - Pefloxacin Shows Promise in Combination TB Treatment
Therapy - Riminophenazines May Offer Treatment Options for TB
At-Risk Populations - "Establishing Large Scale TB Surveillance of Immigrant Garment Workers Within a Pre-Existing Health Maintenance Program."
At-Risk Populations - "Primary Tuberculosis in the Homeless of Los Angeles."
Diagnostics - "The Utility of a Single Smear in the Diagnosis of AIDS Related Tuberculosis: Implications for Isolation."
Epidemiology - "Molecular Epidemiology of TB in Baltimore City: Preliminary Data."
Immunology - "Tetanus Toxoid as a Delayed-Type Hypersensitivity (DTH) Antigen in an Immunized Population."
Public Health - "Transmission of M. tuberculosis (TB) Aboard Commercial Aircraft: Results of a Large Contact Investigation."
Transmission - "Tuberculosis in a Daycare Center, Kentucky, 1993."
Animal Models - Murine Study of the Bcg Gene - "Growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in BCG-Resistant and -Susceptible Mice: Establishment of Latency and Reactivation."
Disease Association - Lung Cancer Risk - "Previous Lung Disease and Risk of Lung Cancer among Lifetime Nonsmoking Women in the United States."
Hepatobiliary Tuberculosis - "Tuberculous Pseudotumor Causing Biliary Obstruction - Report of a Case with Diagnosis by Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy and Bile Cytology."
Immunology - Gamma Delta T Cells - "Alveolar Macrophages As Accessory Cells for Human Gamma Delta T Cells Activated by Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
Ocular - Behcet's/TB Coinfection - "Behcet's Disease and Tuberculosis in the Same Eye: A Case Report."
TB/HIV Coinfection - Drug Resistance - "Tuberculosis and HIV Infection: A Cohort Study of Incidence and Susceptibility to Antituberculous Drugs, Bordeaux, 1985-1993."
Tuberculin Screening - Cost Effectiveness - "Community-Based Tuberculin Screening in Montreal: A Cost-Outcome Description."
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