TB and Outbreaks Week
Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . March 16th, 2004
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Dengue Fever - Hematocrit, platelet levels do not predict shock in children
Tuberculosis Therapy - Moxifloxacin enhances anti-TB regimens
Drug Development - Zanthoxylum syncarpum derivative has potent antimalarial activity
Drug Development - Inhibitors of multiresistant P. falciparum DHFR synthesized
HIV/AIDS Tuberculosis - M. tuberculosis recall antigens inhibit HIV replication
Vectors and Zoonoses - Novel irrigation methods enhance malaria control in China
Auricular Chondritis - Risk of infection higher for piercing ear cartilage than lobe piercing
Avian Influenza - Abandoned bird flu vaccine found at Thai airport
Avian Influenza - Mexico joins growing list of countries banning U.S. poultry
Avian Influenza - Microchips to be embedded in fighting cocks to curb bird flu spread
Avian Influenza - Protein helps immune system mount "instant strike" against deadly flu viruses
Avian Influenza - Texas bird flu cases prompt South Korean ban of U.S. imports
Avian Influenza - WHO says bird flu could become pandemic
Avian Influenza - WHO says bird flu in house cats unlikely to increase risk of human risk
Correctional Healthcare - Audit faults U.S. Marshals Service for poor prisoner healthcare
Dengue Fever - Death toll reaches 260 in Indonesia outbreak
Ethics - Medical journal now says it was wrong to publish controversial vaccine study
Gastroenterology - Surveillance suggests 2002 outbreaks arose from new variant norovirus
Infectious Disease - NOT4 gene deletion impairs C. albicans hyphal development
Influenza - Flu season is seen as moderately severe
Leukemia Therapy - Post-SCT CMV recurrence predicts relapse
Lyme Disease - Researchers uncover key to survival ability of Borrelia burgdorferi
Malaria DNA Research - Improved P. falciparum cDNA libraries constructed
Malaria Drug Resistance - Plasmodial DHPS resistance alleles identified
Malaria Pathogenesis - P. falciparum heat shock protein 70 characterized
Malaria Therapy - Alpha-lipoic acid protects rats from chloroquine-induced hepatotoxicity
Malaria Transmission - Effect of irrigation systems on malaria, schistosomiasis risk evaluated
Noscomial Infection - Lower social class linked to increased risk of postoperative MRS infection
Pediatric Malaria - High sFasL levels linked to severe malarial anemia in children
Poliomyelitis - Nigeria's neighbors guard against spreading polio outbreak
Pulmonary Tuberculosis - Role of IL-4 in pulmonary TB determined
Pulmonary Tuberculosis - Signs of oxidative erythrocyte damage increased in pulmonary TB patients
SARS - Interferon drug saps SARS effects
Schistosomiasis - Discovery may accelerate new treatment for global health problem
Sepsis - Critical care doctors release first-ever guidelines for blood poisoning
Sexual and Reproductive Health - E-mail used to alert sex partners of STD exposure
Sexual and Reproductive Health - One of two will have STD by age 25
Smallpox - Smallpox array set developed with CDC completed
Staphylococcus - Antibiotics may not be necessary to treat children with simple skin abscess
Stem-Cell Transplantation - Cord blood transplantation in adults linked to delayed immune recovery
Stem-Cell Transplantation - Early neutropenic fever remains significant complication in RIST
Tuberculosis - Genetic risk factors for TB in India reviewed
Tuberculosis - Macrophage immunophenotypes in TB patients characterized
Tuberculosis - New TB vaccine may prove more potent than current one
Tuberculosis - Saposin C needed for mycobacterial lipid presentation by CD1b
Tuberculosis Diagnostics - Clinical signs of ocular TB described
Tuberculosis Diagnostics - Mycobacterial peritonitis identified in pediatric dialysis patients
Tuberculosis Diagnostics - PCR superior to FNAC for tuberculous lymphadenitis diagnosis
Tuberculosis Enzymology - M. tuberculosis adenylyl cyclase Rv1625c characterized
Tuberculosis Genomics & Genetics - High-throughput AFLP assay identifies M. tuberculosis mutations
Tuberculosis Pathogenesis - Intracellular autoregulation of M. tuberculosis PrrA described
Tuberculosis Vaccine - M. leprae Hsp65-encoding plasmid DNA induces anti-mycobacterial immunity
Vector-borne Disease - Plasmodium togetherness a strategy for breeding success
Vector-borne Disease - Study explores the role of predators in keeping pathogens at bay
Vectors and Zoonoses - Ammonium sulphate increases Anopheles populations in rice fields
West Nile Virus - Infants whose mothers were infected during pregnancy need careful evaluation
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