Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . June 9th, 1997
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At-Risk Populations (TB) - Florida Center Houses and Treats TB Patients Cheaply
Conference Announcement - South Africa To Host Global AIDS Conference in 2000
Conference Announcement - The Hot Zone 1997: Conference on Emerging Diseases
Diagnostics (TB) - ESAT-6 Single Antigen Useful Test for Tuberculosis
Diagnostics (TB) - Molecular Tests Not Ready to Replace Traditional Tests
Immunology (TB) - Immunocompetent TB Patients Show CD4+ Drop
Industry News (Patents and Technology) - Company Announces Allowance of Influenza Vaccine Patent
Internet - Internet Opens Up Secret World of Medicine
Prognostic Indicators (TB) - Treatment History Predictive of MDR-TB Development
Staphylococcus aureus - Germ Might Become Unstoppable
Testing (TB) - Eighteen Test Positive for Tuberculosis at Nevada Middle School
Diagnostics (Kaposi's Sarcoma) - "Detection of Human Herpesvirus 8 DNA in Broncho-Alveolar Lavage Fluid From HIV Infected Patients With and Without Pulmonary Kaposi's Sarcoma."
Diagnostics (Mycobacteria) - "Detection and Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Directly from Sputum Specimens Using the Abbott LCx M. tuberculosis Assay."
Diagnostics (Mycobacteria) - "Mycobacteria Identification by TLC Analysis of Mycolic Acids: Four Years of Experience in a Brazilian Laboratory."
Diagnostics (Mycobacteria) - "Sensitive, Whole Blood Detection of M. avium, M. intracellulare (MAC) Using Thermophilic Strand Displacement Amplification (tSDA).
Diagnostics (Mycobacterium) - "Evaluation of the Reformulated Gen-Probe Mycobacterium Kansasii AccuProbe Test for the Identification of M. kansasii from Culture."
Diagnostics (Mycobacterium) - "Low Molecular Weight Protein Patterns From Culture Filtrates of M. tuberculosis, Other Mycobacterium spp., and PPD."
Vaccine Development (Pneumonic Plague) - "Evaluation of One-Dose Candidate Vaccines against Pneumonic Plague."
Diagnostics - "Analysis of Genetic Polymorphism in the Phospholipase Region of Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
Susceptibility Testing - "Determination of Drug Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Through Mycolic Acid Analysis."
TB/HIV Coinfection - "The Increasing Burden of Tuberculosis in Rural South Africa - Impact of the HIV Epidemic."
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