Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . March 4th, 2003
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Infectious Disease Therapy - Phenothiazines, thioxanthenes block S. aureus drug efflux
Infectious Disease Therapy - RWJ-54428 effective against several forms of drug resistance
Infectious Disease - Direct random insertion mutagenesis effective in Helicobacter pylori
Infectious Disease - Nipah virus infection affects spinal cord, eyes
Infectious Disease Therapy - Enterobacteriaceae multidrug resistance strongly integron-associated
Bacterial Infections - Pathogenic E. coli O78 strain adheres to surfaces of intestinal tract
Complex Ligands - Experiments map topography of oligosaccharides
Food-borne Illness - Deaths are underestimated
Food-borne Illness - Lawmakers seek tougher meat safety requirements
HIV/AIDS Coinfection - Multiple herpesvirus infections have limited effect on progression rate
HIV/AIDS Dementia - Cytomegalovirus infection may have protective effect
HIV/AIDS Therapy - Glucocorticoid treatment needed for patients with adrenal insufficiency
Infectious Disease - Listeria radish attachment depends on temperature, flagellar motility
Infectious Disease - Ceftazidime use raises risk of resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Taiwan
Infectious Disease - Coagulation, fibrinolysis may not affect dengue-virus infection outcome
Infectious Disease - Homologous antibodies may protect against Norwalk-like viruses
Infectious Disease - Hygroscopic bandages can be source of neonatal Acinetobacter outbreaks
Infectious Disease - Mast cells play key role in early response to Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Infectious Disease - Modified amplification refractory mutation system useful for measles, mumps virus genotyping
Infectious Disease - Survival and growth of Francisella tularensis in Acanthamoeba castellanii
Leprosy - Host gene that makes people vulnerable discovered
Leprosy - WHO outlines urgent need to end stigma and isolation
Measles - Prevailing genotype changes frequently in Osaka
Mycobacteria - Incompatible plasmids useful for gene replacement
Nosocomial Infection - Novel antibiotics get patent
Opportunistic Infection - IL-10 modulates Pneumocystis carinii-induced lung damage
Opportunistic Infection - Interorgan differences seen in cytokine response to Penicillium marneffei
Pneumococcus - Johns Hopkins awarded $30 million to develop, introduce pneumococcal vaccine
Pneumonia - Five dead as virus outbreak, panic grip southern China
Research Funding - University of Miami receives $2.5 million grant for children and families
Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center licenses promising microbicide
Staphylococcus Aureus - Iron-acquisition pathway suggests new treatments for drug-resistant infections
Staphylococcus Aureus - Outbreaks of drug-resistant staph infections hitting prisons across nation
Stem Cell Transplantation - HHV-7 infection may raise HHV-6 reactivation risk
Tetanus - Half of adults in U.S. unprotected
Toxoplasmosis - DNA vaccine primes CD8+ T cells to control Toxoplasma gondii infection
Tuberculosis - Stanford researchers identify genes involved in latency
Tuberculosis Diagnosis - Pulmonary helper T cell cytokine output useful as disease marker
Tuberculosis Pathogenesis - Monocyte infection induces unique TNF-alpha enhanceosome
Tuberculosis Pathogenesis - Mycobacteria disrupt TNF-alpha death signals
Tuberculosis Therapy - Mycobacterial glutamine synthetase inhibition effective
Tuberculosis Vaccine - Antigen 85A expression enhances immunogenicity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
West Nile Virus - Condition of patient's eyes may help in diagnosis
West Nile Virus - Researchers examine nonmosquito transmission of West Nile
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