Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . June 2nd, 1997
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Conference Announcement (TB) - TB Treatment in HIV+ to Be Addressed in Fall Meeting
Diagnostics (TB) - CDC Planning Cost Evaluation for NAA Testing
Treatment (TB) - DOT May Not Be As Successful as Previously Thought
Chickenpox - CDC Issues Vaccination Reminder
Chickenpox - Varicella Complications May Be Serious Scientists Report
Conference Announcement - NCIH Conference Addresses Worsening Global Health Conditions
Cystic Fibrosis - CF Patients Often Positive for Mycobacteria
Dermatology - M. tuberculosis May Be Involved in Some Panniculitis
Drug Research (TB) - HPLC Analysis of Mycolic Acids Useful in Assessing Resistance
Emphysema - A Genetic Disorder Leading To Emphysema Is Unexpectedly Common
Extrapulmonary Disease (TB) - Abdominal Tuberculosis Mimics Other Disorders
Funding (TB) - Company Funds American Lung Association Grant Program For Tuberculosis Education
Hantavirus - Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: U.S. Update
Influenza - Influenza B Threat in Australia
Legionnaires' Disease - Legionnaires' Disease Is An Important Cause Of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia.
Measles - Measles Outbreak in Nepal
Meningitis Vaccine - Company Receives Authorization To Begin A Phase II Clinical Trial
New Laboratory - CDC Arctic Investigations Program Moves to New Laboratory in Alaska
Screening - Proposed Fed. Budget Includes Medicare Coverage for Screening Various Diseases
Shigellosis - Outbreaks Reported in Montreal and Paris
Streptococcus pneumoniae - Laboratory Shows Bugs Among us Wage War on U.S. Communities
Typhoid - Scottish Man Contracts Typhoid While Visiting Florida
Diagnostics (TB/HIV) - "Clinical Utility of Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests in the Setting of MTB-HIV Coinfection."
Immunology (M. tuberculosis) - "Characterization of Serodominant Antigens of M. tuberculosis."
Immunology (M. tuberculosis) - "Induction of Cellular Immunity Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
Immunology (Mycobacteria) - "Bcg/Nramp Genotype Influences Brain Resistance or Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Infection."
TB Vaccines - "Antituberculosis Vaccines: Recombinant M. smegmatis vs. BCG."
Biochemistry - "MMAS-1, The Branch Point Between cis- and trans-Cyclopropane-Containing Oxygenated Mycolates in Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
Cutaneous Tuberculosis - "Cutaneous Tuberculosis in Blackburn District (U.K.): A 15-year Prospective Series, 1981-95."
Diagnostics - "Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in Lobular Granulomatous Panniculitis (Erythema Induratum Nodular Vasculitis)."
Diagnostics - "Single-Tube, Nested, Reverse Transcriptase PCR for Detection of Viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
Drug Resistance - "Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in Auckland 1988-95."
Susceptibility Testing - "Evaluation of a Line Probe Assay Kit for Characterization of rpoB Mutations in Rifampin-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from New York City."
Transplantation - "Exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in a Renal Transplant Candidate: What Further Preoperative Screening Tests Are Available?"
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