Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . April 22nd, 2004
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Belgian Institute of Tropical Medicine - Assays with extended incubation phases needed to monitor HIV vaccine trials
Jewish General Hospital, Montreal - Ability of HIV LysRS to bind tRNA determines virion packaging efficiency
U.S. National Cancer Institute - Activity of KSHV K8.1 late promoter characterized
Vencor International, Inc. - At-Home hepatitis C, instant cholesterol, allergen, and HIV test announced
Aphios Corporation - NIH grant to be used to develop novel anti-HIV therapeutics
Boston Medical Center - Enfuvirtide is new fusion inhibitor for HIV infection treatment
Chiba University - Aeration augments Aspergillus fumigatus gliotoxin production in vitro
Columbia University - Mortality from formula use and vertical HIV transmission comparable
CytRx Corporation - FDA accepts IND for unique HIV vaccine
Disease Transmission - Program teaches health workers about preventing mother-to-child HIV infection
Duke University Medical Center - Mutation rates of HIV genomes clarified
Erasmus Medical Centre - MALDI-TOF MS assay provides improved NRTI monitoring
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Prevalence of HIV resistance mutations in Brazil determined
HIV/AIDS - Australian doctors lose appeal against woman who caught HIV from her husband
HIV/AIDS - Cambodian sex workers turn down Bill Gates-funded HIV drug
HIV/AIDS - Efforts to get AIDS medications to developing countries may be near breakthrough
HIV/AIDS - HIV/AIDS prevention efforts increase in Wyoming
HIV/AIDS - South Carolina gets $19 million for AIDS research and treatment
Hopital Charles Nicolle - Doubly indeterminate HIV Western blot results are negative
Indiana University - Scavenger function of CCR5Delta32 protein involved in protection from HIV
Johns Hopkins University - Biology, not behavior, could explain reduced risk of HIV for circumcised men
Johns Hopkins University - KSHV-encoded vIRF-3 activates transcriptional activity of cellular IRF-3/IRF-7
MedMira, Inc. - Company ships 100,000 Rapid HIV test kits to China, first of 1.3 million order
National University of Ireland Maynooth - Antisera-based immunoassay effective for aspergillosis diagnosis
Needlestick Injury - Young doctors face suture needlestick injury risk, survey shows
New South Wales Cancer Council - Strong IgG antibody activity linked to high HHV-8 viremia
OraSure Technologies, Inc. - FDA approves test to detect HIV-2 antibodies
Pennsylvania State University - Expansion of tumor antigen-specific T cells in transgenic mice reported
Prescription Drug Importation - Canadian health groups call on Canada to ban Internet pharmacies
San Francisco General Hospital - Fitness loss caused by HIV resistance mutations may account for low viremia
U.S. National Institutes of Health - Chimeric HIV/SIV provides stable trimeric HIV Env for study
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid - HIV-1 infection blocked via CCR5 and CXCR4 receptors
University College London - Girls may have heightened risk of intrauterine HIV infection
University of Alabama - AIDS virus is vulnerable in initial stage of infection
University of Oxford - "Somatic hypermutation" hypothesis for HIV R5-X4 switch proposed
University of Rome "La Sapienza" - IL-15 levels elevated in patients with discordant response to treatment
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Companies receive European positive opinion for Telzir
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