TB and Outbreaks Week

Drug Development - Indazole-derived SAH/MTA nucleosidase inhibitors have antimicrobial activity

Nosocomial Infection - Antimicrobial resistance on the rise in American hospitals

SARS Diagnostics - Novel real-time PCR assay enhances detection of SARS coronovirus

Tuberculosis Epidemiology - Genetic distance useful as measure of ongoing TB transmission

Anthrax - Adefovir selectively inhibits factor key to anthrax pathogenesis

Anti-Infectives - Ciprofloxacin can prevent infection in pediatric cancer patients

Anti-Infectives - Linezolid effective against nosocomial VREF in premature infant

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - Small meatpacker pushes USDA to permit comprehensive mad cow testing

Collaborations - Partnership to expand malaria vaccine efforts

Diarrhea - Further studies comparing rehydration therapies would waste resources

Disease Outbreaks - Nebraska Medical Center experts warn of new, old disease threats

Disease Prevention - Tick testing to resume at Ball State laboratory

Drug Development - Turkish anise species yield antimicrobial agents

Epidemiology - Data augmentation helps estimate Legionella subclinical infection rate

Food-Borne Illness - Physicians, nurses and U.S. government release new food-borne illness guide

Gastroenteritis - Waterborne norovirus outbreak in Sweden described

Genital Warts - Positive phase III clinical results achieved with Polyphenon E Ointment

Genomics & Genetics - Prevalence of B3Delta27 in South Pacific islanders determined

Guillain-Barre Syndrome -  C. jejuni infection risk factors in Curacao identified

HIV/AIDS - IPM will take over the development of microbicide TMC120

HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infection -  C. albicans epithelial adhesion gene identified

HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infection - Epidemiology of Aspergillus terreus at university hospital described

HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infection - Hemolysin production by M. avium strains determined

HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infection - Noninvasive assay for P. carinii pneumonia monitoring developed

HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infection - Oral CMV therapy superior to intravenous treatment

HIV/AIDS Tuberculosis - Epidemiology of MDR-TB in HIV patients in Peru described

Heart Transplantation - Lepromatous leprosy in heart transplant recipient described

Herpes - Drug-delivery company to provide development services for herpes therapy

Immunology - Acute immune response to filarial parasites characterized by Th1 cytokines