Anti-Infectives Week

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Infectious Diseases Institute opens in Uganda to care for people with HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Initial indinivir dose should based on patient sex and ritonavir intake

HIV/AIDS Therapy - K65R/Q151M mutations frequently selected during NRTI exposure in HIV-2 infection

HIV/AIDS Therapy - NNRT analog has novel mechanism for HIV RT inhibition

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Novel nonnucleoside HIV-1 RT inhibitors have minimal cytotoxicity

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Synthetic batzelladine analogues inhibit HIV-1 envelope-mediated fusion

HIV/AIDS Vertical Transmission - HIV subtype C preferentially transmitted in utero over subtypes A or D

HIV/AIDS Viral Load - HIV RNA levels differ by sex/risk group/age before ART initiation

HIV/AIDS-Coinfection - HIV-1 transactivated by Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected macrophages

HIV/AIDS-Related Genomics - (CCR)5-Delta32 polymorphism higher in HIV-negative exposed than HIV+ individuals

HIV/AIDS-Related Kaposi Sarcoma - Serologic response against ORF73 differs between HIV patients with/without KS

Healthcare Planning - Surge healthcare planning necessary for future epidemic and terrorist attacks

Hospital-Acquired Infections - Breakthrough for antibiotic drug discovery technology reported

Human Herpesvirus - HHV-8 not associated with angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia

Human Papillomavirus - High-throughput PCR chemiluminescent EIA types/quantifies HPV DNA

Immunology - HIV-1 envelope neutralizing antibody 2G12 analyzed

Infectious Disease - HIV/AIDS diagnostic kits bound for Malaysia

Infectious Disease - New institute helps patients and trains professionals in sub-Saharan Africa

Influenza - Employee health education may be the best medicine

Influenza - Specialist suggests pregnant women request flu vaccine to protect mom and baby

Influenza - Tamiflu cited in new antiviral guidelines for preventing, treating influenza

Malaria - Neurocognitive impairment associated with Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Malaria - Polyclonal B-cell activator in Plasmodium falciparum identified

Malaria Therapy - Pyronaridine metabolism characterized in vitro and in vivo

Memingitis - Student hospitalized with meningitis

Meningococcal Disease -  Neisseria meningitides sequence type 66 identified in Poland

Meningococcal Disease - Outbreak in France of N. meningitidis B:15:P1.12 belonging to sequence type 1403

Nosocomial Infection - Quebec hospitals struggle with bacterium outbreak

Obstetrics - Antiretroviral Pregnancy Registry monitoring and analysis plan described

Pathogen Detection - NIH grant awarded to develop phenotype microarray technology

Pneumonia - Cellular and Ab responses against C. pneumoniae may be mutually exclusive

Pneumonia - Nursing home-acquired pneumonia differs from hospital/community-acquired

Proteomics - Insights reported into P. putida KT2440 response to phenol-induced stress

Roundworms -  B. transfuga larva migrans causes fatal neurological disease in Mongolian birds

SARS - SARS antibody test used for serosurveillance

SARS Coronavirus - Medical geography of SARS is explored

Stem Cell Transplantation - HSCT recipients from unrelated donors prone to infectious complications

Tuberculosis -  Mycobacterium tuberculosis NAD kinase reveals a novel fold

Tuberculosis - Prevalence of tuberculosis in foreign-born patients in U.S. increasing

Tuberculosis - TB alliance and U. of Illinois at Chicago collaborate to develop TB macrolides

Vaccine Development - Gene vaccines lead immune response reactions in the desired direction

Vaccine Development - Pharmaceutical device manufacturer announces long-term deal renewal

Varicella-Zoster Virus - Variable patterns of varicella-zoster virus reactivation in Ramsay Hunt syndrome

West Nile Virus - West Nile virus has crossed geographical boundaries

Wound Care - Regulation of skin cell homeostasis may help with wound repair

Wound Care - Silver-infused antibacterial wound dressings for cuts, scrapes, burns introduced