{"title":"Chemoprophylaxis and chemotherapy of tuberculosis in HIV infected patients.","authors":"H van Deutekom","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77502,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","volume":"65 2-3","pages":"84-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13408438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resolutions taken at the World Conference on Lung Health, Boston 1990.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77502,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","volume":"65 2-3","pages":"7-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13137656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent developments in molecular biology of mycobacteria.","authors":"J M Grange","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Molecular biology is beginning to revolutionise the study of tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases. DNA hybridization is used to classify strains at the generic and specific level and, when combined with the polymerase chain reaction, may rapidly detect very small amounts of mycobacterial DNA in clinical material. Restriction endonuclease mapping or the more refined restriction length polymorphism analysis is used to type strains at the sub-specific level for epidemiological purposes. Detection of plasmids is also an epidemiological aid and there is considerable interest in the role of plasmids as determinants of pathogenicity and virulence of some mycobacterial species. Genomic libraries provide a source of DNA probes for use in hybridization and restriction length polymorphism analysis and pure antigens in large quantities for experimental and diagnostic use. Vectors for the insertion of genes into mycobacteria provide a way of analysing genes relevant to virulence and protective immunity and a means of producing new vaccines for use against leprosy as well as tuberculosis. Finally, the ability to clone mammalian genes in bacteria enables immunological mediators to be produced in quantity for the elucidation of immune mechanisms in mycobacterial infections and possibly for therapeutic use.</p>","PeriodicalId":77502,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","volume":"65 2-3","pages":"19-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13408418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First experience with BCG discontinuation in Europe. Experience in Sweden 15 years after stopping general BCG vaccination at birth.","authors":"V Romanus","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77502,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","volume":"65 2-3","pages":"32-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13408421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Elimination\": of tuberculosis or of tuberculosis control programs.","authors":"J A Sbarbaro","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77502,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","volume":"65 2-3","pages":"47-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13408427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The application of the WHO standard tuberculin test in the elimination phase of tuberculosis.","authors":"M A Bleiker, O Misljenovic","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77502,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","volume":"65 2-3","pages":"56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13408430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maintenance of a tuberculosis programme in the elimination phase.","authors":"J F Broekmans","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77502,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","volume":"65 2-3","pages":"92-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13408441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WHO's role for tuberculosis control in the world.","authors":"A Kochi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77502,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","volume":"65 2-3","pages":"94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13408442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The last fight against tuberculosis until elimination, a workshop/course of the IUATLD-Europe Region and WHO. Opening addresses.","authors":"E Tala, L van der Drift, C A Postema","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77502,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","volume":"65 2-3","pages":"17-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13137658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infectiousness of tuberculosis.","authors":"L Clancy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77502,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","volume":"65 2-3","pages":"70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13408433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}