TB and Outbreaks Week

Drug Development - INH derivatives active against INH-resistant tuberculosis strains

Infectious Disease Diagnostics - Multiplex PCR quickly and accurately detects staphylococcal resistance genes

Drug Development - Quinoxaline derivatives are lead compounds for anti-TB agents

Infectious Disease - Postpartum women in New York afflicted with CA-MRSA strain MW2

Mosquito-borne Disease - Icon exposure can trigger miscarriage in rats

Tuberculosis Risk Factor - CD40 ligand gene variants not linked to increased TB risk in West Africa

AIDS Funding - Five-year, $1.5 million grant to fight spread of HIV/AIDS and TB in Africa

Anti-Infectives - Long-term linezolid treatment can cause toxic optic neuropathy

Atherosclerosis - LXR/TLR crosstalk underlies infectious antagonism of cholesterol metabolism

Bacterial Contamination - Salmonellae can be concentrated from liquids by using an immunoaffinity column

Bacterial Therapy - Eosinophilic pneumonia is a risk in Calmette-Guerin therapy for bladder cancer

Cell Signaling - "Off switch" could halt inflammation and autoimmunity

Cerebral Malaria - Inhibition of platelet adherence in brain protects mice against severe cerebral malaria

Common Cold - Echinacea not effective in treating colds in children

Correctional Medicine - Prevalence of MRSA in California jails rising sharply

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - Only one more case of vCJD in Ireland - probably

Cystic Fibrosis -  Pandoraea apista can cause chronic lung infection in CF patients

Cystic Fibrosis - Surfactant protein D increases with lung dysfunction, not aspergillosis in CF

Cytokines - After glycolipid antigen presentation, NK T cells downregulate TCR and expand

Dendritic Cell Function - LPS induces caspase-like activation of human dendritic cells, cell survival

Dendritic-T Cell Interactions - Antigen-specific T cells induce MHC-II tube-shaped vesicles in dendritic cells

Dermatology -  Alternaria, Bipolaris dermatomycosis can occur in non-immunosuppressed patients

Diagnostics - 23S-5S spacer PCR allows separation of L. pneumophila, other Legionella

Drug Development -  Salvia hydrangea terpenoids have oleanolic acid-mediated antimalarial effects

Drug Development - Biotin derivative blocks Plasmodium-induced permeation pathways in infected erythrocytes

Drug Development - Novel leishmanicidal agent may disrupt parasite DNA function

Drug Development - Potential of human neutrophil peptides in TB therapy reviewed

Drug Development - Quinolone analogues have improved activity against Gram-positive bacteria

Drug Development - Shitake-derived protein has antifungal, anti-HIV, and anticancer activity

Enterotoxin Binding - Two T-cell families react differently to Staphylococcus enterotoxin A

Fertility Medicine - Sperm motility is affected by male urogenital infection

Food-borne Illness - Government report says salmonella declining in raw meat

Food-borne Illness - Production type, antimicrobial use affect Campylobacter resistance in infected broilers

Food-borne Illness - Report: Georgia, North Carolina hepatitis strains linked

Food-borne Illness - USDA announces unified food safety research agenda

Fungal Infections -  Bipolafis spicifera can cause fungal masses in sinuses and rhinosinusitis

Fungal Infections -  Exophiala oligosperma may cause bursitis in the immunosuppressed

Genetic Risk Factors - Vitamin D receptor gene mutation linked to chronic periodontitis

Genomics and Genetics - Malaria screen reveals heterogenous genetic ancestry in Flores Island patients

HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infection - Lack of macrophage mannose receptor does not raise murine P. carinii risk