Letters to the Editor

Gill JS Zezulka AV Gill SK Beevers DG . Alcohol consumption and markers of alcohol intake in patients with stroke. Clin Sci 1985; 69: 42

Wallace P . Looking for patients at risk because of their drinking. J R Soc Med 1986; 79: 129–30

Jariwalla AG Adams PH Hore BD . Alcohol and acute general medical admissions to hospital. Health Trends 1979; 11: 95–7

Quinn MA Johnston RV . Alcohol problems in acute male medical admissions. Health Bull (Edinb) 1976; 34: 253–6

Kuritsky JN Bull MG Broome CV Silcox VA Good RC Wallace RJ . Sternal wound infections and endocarditis due to organisms of the Mycobacterium fortuitum complex. Ann Intern Med 1983; 98: 938–9

Tyras DH Kaiser GC Barner HB Laskowski LF Marr JJ . Atypical mycobacteria and the xenograft valve. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1978; 75: 331–7

O'Rourke MF Shanahan MX Harkness JL . Endocarditis with an acid fast organism after porcine heart valve replacement. Lancet 1978; ii: 686

Anyanwu CH Nassau E Yacoub M . Miliary tuberculosis following homograft valve replacement. Thorax 1976; 31: 101–6

Centre for Disease Control. Isolation of mycobacteria species from porcine heart valve prostheses. CDC Morbidity and Mortality Report 1977; 26 (11 February): 42–3

Reece IJ Anderson JD Wain WH , A new porcine bioprosthesis: in vitro and in vivo evaluation. Life Support System 1985; 3: 207–27

Lombardo JA O'Rourke MF Shanahan MX Harkness JL . Endocarditis due to an atypical mycobacteria following heart valve replacement. Aust NZ J Med 1980; 10: 432–4

Seale J . AIDS virus infection: Prognosis and transmision. J. R. Soc Med 1985; 78: 613–4

Georgiades JA Billiau A Vanderschueren B . Infection of human cell cultures with bovine visna virus. J Gen Virol 1978; 38: 375–81

Anderson JR , ed. Muir's textbook of pathology. 11th ed. London Edward Arnold, 1980: 207–8

Water JB Israel MS . General pathology. 5th ed. London: Churchill Livingstone, 1979: 242.