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AIDS Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . May 10th, 2004

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Related Areas: Other Issues in AIDS Weekly | Other Publications

HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infection - TMP-SMZ therapy does not select for S. aureus small colony variants

HIV/AIDS Pediatric - Naive, infection-resistant lymphocytes dominate immune recovery in children

HIV/AIDS Proteomics - Actin filaments play role in intracellular transport of nascent HIV-1 proteins

HIV/HBV Coinfection - Acute HIV infection linked to stable or reduced HBV loads

Sexually Transmitted Disease - Protective effect of circumcision against HIV has biological explanation

AIDS/HIV Therapy - Crack cocaine use reduces antiviral therapy use in women with HIV

AIDS/HIV Therapy - Fuzeon to be widely available in U.S. pharmacies

AIDS/HIV Vaccine - Neutralizing HIV epitopes available in newly-infected patients

AIDS/HIV Vaccine - Vaccine allows for infection control in macaques exposed to SHIV

Antiphospholipid Syndrome - Features of HIV- and hepatitis C-related APS described

Collaborations - R&D agreement signed with CDC for rapid HIV incidence test

Diagnostics - HIV test kits recently tested

Diagnostics - Home Access FDA-approved at-home tests to be distributed internationally

Diagnostics - Peptide-protein microarrays enable serodetection of multple pathogens

Diagnostics - Semicarbazide and amine slides for peptide-protein microarray assay compared

Drug Development - HIV integrase pharmacophore model developed

Drug Development - Thiophene-containing nelfinavir analog synthesized

Finance - Biopharma company offers up to 4,000,000 shares of common stock

Finance - Diagnostics company closes final round of debenture financing

Finance - Nutraceutical company records a 33% increase in unit sales for fourth quarter

HIV Therapy - FDA grants clearance for HIV viral entry inhibitor to begin phase Ib/IIa trial

HIV/AIDS - Effect of HIV infection on NK cell inhibitory receptors clarified

HIV/AIDS - FDA grants traditional approval status to Ziagen

HIV/AIDS - Genital ulcer disease linked to heightened HIV loads

HIV/AIDS - Preclinical data support continued development of IR103 HIV drug candidate

HIV/AIDS - Subtype-specific transcriptional promoters determine replication rate

HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - HIV/AIDS monitoring research could reduce costs for African nations

HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - Novel molecular assay quantifies HIV-2 viremia

HIV/AIDS Drug Resistance - HIV gp120 mutations linked to BMS-806 and #155 resistance identified

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - Prevalence of non-B HIV subtypes rising in Belgium

HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infection - PCR assay detects a variety of fungal pathogens

HIV/AIDS Pediatric - Racial distribution of chemokine mutations determined

HIV/AIDS Prevention - California investigators urged to inspect porn industry

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Price and side-effects hinder new AIDS drug sales

HIV/AIDS Prevention - RealNetworks founder pledges $1.5 million to fight AIDS

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Study shows HIV-positive teens were not aware of risks and delayed treatment

HIV/AIDS Proteomics - Link between HIV core maturation and virus-cell fusion identified

HIV/AIDS Proteomics - Single amino acid of APOBEC3G controls species-specific interaction with Vif

HIV/AIDS Risk - HIV-positive teens not aware of risks and delay treatment

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Antiretroviral agents may be useful for SARS prevention and treatment

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Gender-based variations in saquinavir pharmacology identified

HIV/AIDS Therapy - HAART restores T-cell repertoire in patients with acute HIV infection

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Metabolic effects of lopinavir-ritonavir regimens evaluated

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Restored immunity hints at possible breakthrough for AIDS

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Tenofovir-associated renal tubular dysfunction described

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Terpenes can improve transdermal zidovudine delivery

HIV/AIDS Trends - There is hope among grim facts with AIDS

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - Determining features of HIV neutralization phenotype identified

Hepatitis C Therapy - Interferon/ribavirin therapy can be safe, but sustained response remains low

Immunology -  Herpesvirus saimiri Tip induces T-cell apoptosis

Immunology - Immunoregulatory role of B7-H1 reviewed

Infectious Disease - Vertical transmission of Cryptococcus neoformans reported

Lopodystrophy - Positive phase II results reported for ThGRF in HIV-associated lipodystrophy

Mother-To-Child HIV Infection - UNICEF says project in Rwanda registers high acceptance rate

Neurosyphilis - HIV infection delays post-treatment normalization

Patents - Lonza files patent infringement lawsuit

Policy - AIDS researchers to Abbott: Norvir price increase cannot be tolerated

Safety Syringes - Safety syringes market continues to grow

Violence - Rwanda: Aid plea for genocide rape survivors

Virology - HIV-polio vaccine theory refuted

Virology - Understanding HIV drug resistance

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