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Biotech / Medical : Cel-Sci Corp (AMEX:CVM) (was HIV)
CVM 5.160+3.4%Jan 16 9:30 AM EST

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To: Tom Shutters who wrote (2171)10/6/1998 3:55:00 PM
From: Tom Shutters  Read Replies (1) of 2836
 
"Drug-sensitive TB outbreak in Tennessee linked to drug-resistant New York strain"

..."Dr. David W. Haas of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues report that an AIDS patient admitted to the hospital in 1992 came into contact with 172 health care workers before being diagnosed with tuberculosis."

"Active tuberculosis developed in one health care worker and one hospitalized patient with HIV. Newly positive tuberculin tests were recognized in 35 health care workers 3 to 5 months after the outbreak, according to the report in the September issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology."

"The DNA fingerprint patterns from the drug-sensitive organisms obtained from all three Tennessee patients were identical and were similar to the multidrug-resistant strain W that is prevalent in New York."...

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