In a voluntary anonymous HIV and hepatitis C serology screen in a Canadian male medium
security federal penitentiary, 68% of 520 prisoners volunteered a blood sample and 99% of …

Bacillus cereus is responsible for an increasing number of food poisoning cases. By using
12 bacteriophages isolated from sewage, a typing scheme for B. cereus isolates from …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the seroprevalence of HIV infection and hepatitis C among
inmates of a federal penitentiary for women. DESIGN: Voluntary, anonymous, linked, point-…

We previously reported the establishment of several lymphoid cell lines from X-ray-induced
thymomas of C57BL/Ka mice, and all, except one, produce retroviruses (P. Sankar-Mistry …

The early diagnosis of human rotavirus infection is essential for effective patient management
and infection control. We report here a rapid, easy-to-perform, and inexpensive test for …

Fractionated whole-body X irradiation of C57BL/Ka mice leads to the development of thymic
leukemia in 90% of the treated animals at an average age of 6 months. Using a sensitive …

Objective The aim of the present study was to examine the association between infection
with Chlamydia pneumoniae and symptomatic atherosclerosis in peritoneal dialysis (PD) …

Using the Southern procedure, we have studied the presence of ecotropic-specific murine
leukemia viral sequences in genomic DNA isolated from primary X-ray-induced thymomas, …

RESULTS Epidemiology The outbreak began in mid-November 1988 and continued for 5
weeks. During this period, 40 out of the 193 residents and 7 staff became ill. The index case …

Polybrene treatment of McCoy cells was used to increase the infectivity of Chlamydia trachomatis
in vitro. The isolation rate for C. trachomatis in 500 specimens from males and females …