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TB and Outbreaks Week

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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