Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . June 25th, 2002
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AIDS and HIV Tuberculosis - Patients with negative sputum smear have higher mortality risk
Meningitis - Adult enterovirus infection often misdiagnosed
Food-borne Illness - Ozone may stop bacteria on produce better than food irradiation, washing
Nosocomial Infection - Novel solution can help prevent catheter-related outbreaks
Tuberculosis - Statistical model useful for determining prevalence of TB in people with BCG vaccination
Tuberculosis Diagnosis - Pediatric care providers often misinterpret tuberculin skin test results
Anthrax - Human antibodies against spores found by researchers suggest new tool to detect and treat anthrax
Bacteriology - Scientists discover new weapon to disable bacteria
Bacteriology - Scientists sequence Nature's antibiotic factory
Chickenpox - CDC reports dramatic decrease in chickenpox cases and hospitalizations in areas with increasing use of vaccine
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - TSO3's ozone sterilization process shows potential for prion inactivation
Diagnosis - Faster detection of bacteria in water, food could be used to detect terrorist contamination
Diphtheria Tetanus Pertussis - Vietnam recalls 1.36 million doses of substandard vaccine
Human Papillomavirus Vaccine - Protein fusion augments HPV-E7 immunogenicity
Infectious Disease - Protection against malaria, herpes, and cancer reported with new peptide
Influenza - Flu vaccine donation to help nearly 500,000 disadvantaged in Colombia
Plague - Medieval black death not bubonic plague, researchers propose
Policy - WHO: Genome research could save millions in developing world
Smallpox Vaccine - BD bifurcated needle cleared by FDA
Staphylococcus Aureus - Levofloxacin best choice for treating resistant staph infections
Tuberculosis - Study blames latent infections for TB
Tuberculosis Epidemiology - Foreign-born New Yorkers often carried latent infection
Tuberculosis Screening - Novel assay quickly detects resistance mutation
Whooping Cough - Deaths significantly underestimated in England
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