Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . November 7th, 2005
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HIV/AIDS Drug Development - Genetically engineered live bacteria block HIV fusion and entry
HIV/AIDS Drug Development - Plant extract scutellarin inhibits HIV-1 RT, particle attachment and cell fusion
HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - CCR5+CD4+ cells highly activated during primary HIV-1 infection
HIV/AIDS Prevention - HAART reduces transmission risk between HIV-discordant heterosexual couples
HIV/AIDS Viral Inhibitor - NNRTI UC-781 inhibits HIV-1 infection of cervical tissue when applied as a vaginal microbicide
Business & Finance - Bio lab company, CLS join to integrate bioanalytical, genotyping, biostorage services
Clinical Trials - Clinical trial of antiviral HIV/AIDS therapeutic in HIV-positive patients initiated
Disease Control - Tuberculosis poses a risk to a pregnant woman and her fetus
Drug Development - Cidofovir lipid ester analogs inhibit herpesvirus replication
Drug Development - Novel high-throughput screening assays identify HIV integrase strand transfer inhibitors
Facilities - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention completes $165 million facility
Finance - Development of VivaGel accelerated with US$20M funding from U.S. National Institutes of Health
HIV-Associated Cancer - Rituximab added to CHOP does not improve clinical outcome of HIV-associated non-Hodgkin lymphoma
HIV/AIDS Behavioral Medicine - Behavior change models precipitate AIDS risk reduction in sub-Saharan Africa
HIV/AIDS Coinfection - Intestinal helminth treatment does not reduce plasma HIV-1 RNA in coinfected patients
HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - High-throughput HIV-1 full replication assay includes Vif as an antiviral target
HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - Molecular tests company investigating collaboration for testing blood samples
HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - Sensitivity and specificity of rapid HIV test compared with fourth-generation ELISA
HIV/AIDS Drug Development - p73 interacts with HIV-1 Tat in astrocytic cells and prevents its acetylation on lysine 28
HIV/AIDS Drug Resistance - Drug-resistant HIV-1 variants most commonly seen in patients infected with subtype B virus
HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - HIV epidemic increased infection-related hospital admissions in rural South Africa
HIV/AIDS HAART - Amprenavir significantly lowers plasma atazanavir levels when given in combination
HIV/AIDS HAART - Mortality and morbidity from advanced AIDS has declined in Hong Kong in HAART era
HIV/AIDS HAART - Rate of virologic suppression is low among HIV-infected children on HAART
HIV/AIDS HAART - Risk of acquiring drug resistant HIV mutations is low for patients on HAART with detectable viremia
HIV/AIDS Healthcare Access - Many HIV-infected adults perceive discrimination by health care providers
HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Simian immunodeficiency virus disrupts extended lengths of the blood-brain barrier
HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Virus attachment and replication promoted after HIV-1 acquires host CD28 and CD152
HIV/AIDS Prevention - Arizona health leaders discuss new methods for protecting women from HIV
HIV/AIDS Prevention - Gains in condom use offset by increases in the number of sex partners in Uganda
HIV/AIDS Prognosis - Circulating dendritic cells correlate inversely with HIV RNA and positively with CD4 cell counts
HIV/AIDS Risk Factors - Requiring help injecting predicts HIV infection incident among intravenous drug users
HIV/AIDS Risk Factors - Study explores importance of relationship factors and safer sex practices
HIV/AIDS Therapy - AIDS clinical trials group quality-of-life scores estimated
HIV/AIDS Therapy - Antioxidant therapy may control protease inhibitor-associated cardiovascular complications
HIV/AIDS Therapy - Inappropriate drug combinations in HIV/AIDS increase side effects risk, may decrease drug efficacy
HIV/AIDS Transmission - Planned caesarian section is safe and effective for preventing transmission of HIV
HIV/AIDS Vaccine - Differential restriction of HIV-2 and SIVmac by TRIM5 alleles studied
HIV/AIDS Vaccine - HIV vectors and molecular clones have similar neutralization phenotype
HIV/AIDS Vaccine - In-depth analysis of heterosexual HIV-1 superinfection reported
HIV/AIDS Vaccine - Interleukin-12 enhances CD8 SIV vaccine immune response
HIV/AIDS Vaccine - Racial/ethnic minorities increasing in government-funded networks of U.S. HIV vaccine trials
HIV/AIDS Vaccine - Standardization of nonhuman primate models needed to assess AIDS vaccines
HIV/AIDS Wasting Syndrome - Risk of {{>=}}5% unintentional weight loss in HIV-infected patients is increasing
HIV/AIDS-Malaria Coinfection - HIV-1 RNA and CD4 count moderately but inconsistently associated with malaria parasitemia
HIV/AIDS-Malaria Coinfection - No significant interaction found between any malaria category and HIV serostatus
HIV/AIDS-Related Lipodystrophy - Plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 increased in HIV-associated lipodystrophy
HIV/AIDS-Tuberculosis Coinfection - Management of HIV/tuberculosis coinfection is a high priority in low-income settings
HIV/AIDS-Tuberculosis Coinfection - Recurrent tuberculosis in HIV-infected children common in high-burden TB setting
HIV/AIDS-Tuberculosis Coinfection - Tuberculosis treatment outcome is worse in HIV-infected patients
Hematology - Patient host factors prevent GB virus C, hepatitis, and HIV infection in exposed hemophiliacs
Hepatitis C Treatment - Latin Americans with chronic hepatitis C are less likely to initiate or continue therapy
Infectious Diseases - Clinical malaria increase attributable to HIV-1 epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa
Malaria Therapy - Drug combination against AIDS-related infections also effective against malaria
Nephrology - HIV fuses to glomerular endothelial cells through an CXCR4-mediated mechanism
Nevirapine - Drug combination suppresses viral replication in HIV/AIDS patients in Nigeria
Pediatrics HIV/AIDS - Immature CD4+ cells in newborn thymus support production of infectious simian-HIV
Quality Assurance - Biotech holding company announces facilities GMP-certified for drug production
Quality Assurance - HIV-infected patients face discrimination from doctors
Re-emerging Infections - Mycobacterium bovis infections are a re-emerging disease
Tuberculosis - Micronutrient supplementation and zinc do not have significant effects on TB culture conversion
Tuberculosis - Moxifloxacin to be studied as new TB treatment
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