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AIDS Weekly and Law

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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