TB and Outbreaks Week

Antimicrobials - Linezolid does not raise thrombocytopenia risk in nosocomial pneumonia patients

Anthrax - Researchers develop approaches to stop anthrax toxin action

Anthrax - Scientists discover how anthrax creates its deadly spores

Antimicrobial Antibodies - Activated gamma delta T cells go to lymph nodes; increase antibody production

Aphthous Stomatitis - Oral ulceration may indicate Behcet disease, inflammatory bowel syndrome

Blood Transfusion - Blood sterility testing must be from a bag location that avoids false positivity

Childhood Immunization - Invalid vaccine doses would cost millions to fix

Childhood Immunization - Vaccine shortages affect child immunization programs

Combination Therapy - Ethiopia minister blasts doctor's group over treatment

Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease - First case of mad cow found in U.S.

Cryptococcosis -  Cryptococcus neoformans capsule formation can be blocked by RNA interference

Infectious Disease - Action needed to prevent alveolar echinococcosis epidemic in Japan

Drug Development - Burkina Faso medical plants have antimalarial activity

Drug Development - Hematin-targeting 9-anilinoacridines show promise as antimalarials

Drug Development - Modified alpha-GalCer analog has improved antimalarial, anticancer activity

Drug Development - Morning glory extract has antituberculosis activity

Drug Development - Plasmodial aspartic protease characterized

Drug Development - Synthetic cysteine protease inhibitors have potent antimalarial activity

Drug Development - Transformation into gamma-lactone augments quassin's antimalarial activity

Ebola Virus - Solving the Ebola enigma: Satellites will provide clues

Food Technology - Opsonophagocytic assay may be a useful test for safe enterococcal strains

Food-borne Illness - Agency says U.S. outbreaks and deaths from salmonella strain on the decline

Drug Development - 5HTIA serotonin receptor agonists suppress P. falciparum growth

Fungal Infection - CnLYSO1 is an extracellular lysophospholipase of Cryptococcus neoformans

Fungal Infections -  Rhodotorula fungemia isolates respond best to amphotericin B, posaconazole

Fungal Infections - Deep infection by Trichophyton rubrum treatable with itraconazole

Giardia Lamblia - Real-time PCR is at least as effective as antigen assay to detect G. lamblia

HIV/AIDS - Novel trypanosomatids reported in HIV patients

HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infection -  P. jiroveci DHPS mutations not linked to sulfa drugs in Portugese patients

HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infection - Alveolar macrophage killing of P. carinii depends on Dectin-1 beta-glucan receptor

HIV/AIDS Tuberculosis - Isoniazid effective against latent TB in HIV+ injection drug users

Helicobacter Pylori -  H. pylori CagA inhibits B cell p53-induced apoptosis; triggers MALT lymphoma

Immunoassay - Optical immunoassay for group B streptococcus works better if infection is heavy

Drug Development - Modified GFP reporter-based assay useful for anti-TB drug screening

Infection Control - CDC releases new guidelines for hygiene in dental care settings

Infection Control - Program designed to help hospitals, physicians slow spread of flu, SARS

Infectious Disease - HIV has significant influence on leishmaniasis epidemiology

Infectious Disease - Schistosomiasis does not affect NTS bacteremia outcome in HIV+ Malawian adults

Influenza - CDC: Flu activity widespread in 45 states

Influenza - Catholic archdiocese asks parishioners with cold or flu to forgo communion

Influenza - Experts: Antiquated flu vaccine system needs updating

Influenza - Flu seems to be hitting kids very hard