SFV transmission in macaques occurred by transfusion of blood from one of two infected donor animals. These results indicate the potential of SFV transfusion transmission in humans, which may depend on virus-specific or donor-related factors.

SuperMIX is Australia's largest and only active longitudinal cohort of PWID.• The cohort aims to describe the natural history and longitudinal trajectories of injecting drug use, including risk and protective factors of adverse health outcomes, cessation of and relapse into injecting drug use, and the impacts of health service access.• Data collection involves baseline and annual follow-up interviews and venous blood samples with linked health service data. During interviews a questionnaire that records demographics, drug purchase and use, health service utilisation, criminal behaviour and criminal justice system interactions is administered.

patients was eligible for inclusion in the survey of whom 2458 were previously untreated; the comparable figures for 1988 were 2408 and 2163. The number of The steady decline in tuberculosis notifications patients of white ethnic origin decreased in England and Wales which continued after from 1142 (53%) in 1988 to 1088 (44%) in the Second World War ceased in the mid-1993 whereas those of patients of Indian, 1980s 1 2 and subsequently small increases over Pakistani, or Bangladeshi (Indian sub-the previous year have been observed in 1988, continent (ISC)) ethnic origin increased 1989, 1991, 1992, and 1993. 3 Several factors from 843 (39%) in 1988 to 1014 (41%) and have been suggested as possible causes for the creased in all other groups. In the white cognition of the emerging problem of group the rate of decline has slowed since