TB and Outbreaks Week

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . May 6th, 1996

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

TB/HIV Coinfection - CDC Says TB Control Efforts Must Not Lapse

At-Risk Populations (Homelessness) - TB Rate 15 Times Higher in Substance Abusing Homeless

At-Risk Populations (IVDUs) - Isoniazid Prophylaxis Effective in HIV Positive IVDUs

Diagnostics - Link Between Sputum Clearance/Culture Positivity Duration

Drug Resistance - 69-bp Fragment in rpoB Gene Predicts Rifampin Resistance

Immunology - New Understanding of Ancient Innate Immune System

International (Europe) - Virulent Tuberculosis Strain Hits Denmark

Pathogenesis - M. tb Replicates within Type II Alveolar Cells.

TB Vaccines - Auxotrophic BCG May Be Useful for At-Risk Populations

TB/HIV Coinfection - Immune Activation Impaired in Lungs of HIV Positive TB Patients

Infection Control - "The Formal and Informal Costs of Tuberculosis in Sierra Leone."

Infection Control (TB) - "Botusa: A New Epi-Info Based Software for Use with IUATLD/WHO TB Registration System."

Infection Control (TB) - "The Follow-Up of the Tuberculous Patients at the Community Tuberculous Centers."

Infection Control (TB) - "The New Brazilian Model for Fighting Tuberculosis Through Science and Technology."

Infection Control (TB) - "Tuberculosis - An Emergency Health Problem in Europe."

Therapy (TB) - "A Trial on Acquisition of the High Cure Rate for TB Treatment in Solomon Islands."

Therapy (TB) - "Which Drugs are Used for the Treatment of Tuberculosis (TB) in Italy? Results of a National Survey."

Diagnostics - "Assessment of Genetic Markers for Species Differentiation within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex."

Diagnostics - "Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by PCR Amplification with Pan-Mycobacterium Primers and Hybridization to an M. tuberculosis-Specific Probe. DOU

Diagnostics - "Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Respiratory Specimens by Strand Displacement Amplification of DNA."

Diagnostics - "Diagnostic Performance of Amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis Direct Test with Cerebrospinal Fluid, Other Nonrespiratory, and Respiratory Specimens."

Drug Resistance - "Specimen Contamination in Mycobacteriology Laboratory Detected by Pseudo-Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Analysis by Routine Epidemiology and Confirmation by Molecular Technique."

Immunology - "IL-1 Receptor Antagonist (IL-1ra) Expression, Function, and Cytokine-Mediated Regulation During Mycobacterial and Schistosomal Antigen-Elicited Granuloma Formation.

Immunology - "Stimulation of Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells with Live Mycobacterium bovis BCG Activates Cytolytic CD8⁺ T Cells In Vitro."

International (Africa) - "Tuberculosis Programme Changes and Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Smear-Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Blantyre, Malawi."

Opportunistic Infections - "Natural History of Opportunistic Disease in an HIV-Infected Urban Clinical Cohort."

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