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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Subject: Re: New AIDS Definition
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.231157.16798@cs.ucla.edu>
- Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
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- Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
- References: <1993Jan23.135001.3616@cs.ucla.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 19:10:49 GMT
- Approved: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
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- In article <1993Jan23.135001.3616@cs.ucla.edu>, uschukle@arts (Mr Udo Schuklenk) writes:
- >I'm still trying to track the new CDC AIDS definition down.
-
- The definitive reference is CDC "1993 Revised Classification System
- for HIV Infection and Expanded Surveillance Case Definition for AIDS
- Among Adolescents and Adults" MMWR v41 #RR-17 (18 Dec 1992), a small
- 20-page booklet. Seeing by the date stamped on the cover that it took
- a month to arrive here in Philadelphia, I suspect your local Down Under
- libraries won't be getting a copy until the snow starts falling.
-
- >If anyone out there has the new definition (not just a summary from
- >a newspaper) PLEASE e-mail it to me or post it with regular mail
-
- According to the inside front cover, you can get single copies free
- from the CDC National AIDS Information Clearinghouse, PO Box 6003,
- Rockville, MD 20849-6003, 800-458-5231. Presumably that will be as
- slow. You can also purchase copies from Superintendent of Documents,
- US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9325, 202-783-3238,
- and no doubt they will add on shipping charges per your request.
-
- In short, five new conditions have been added to the 1986 CDC definition.
- HIV+ people with pulmonary tuberculosis, recurrent pneumonia, invasive
- cervical cancer, <200 CD4+ T-lymphocytes per microliter, or <14% CD4+
- T-lymphocytes out of all lymphocytes, are to be reported to the CDC as
- AIDS, in addition to the 23 existing diseases.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-