TB and Outbreaks Week

Influenza - Kriging analysis spots geographic/temporal trends in influenza epidemics

Influenza Vaccine - Efficacy of DNA influenza vaccine increased by Schiff base-forming drug

Influenza Vaccine - Florida to receive 370,000 more doses of flu vaccine

Influenza Vaccine - Healthy elderly urged to skip flu shots

Influenza Vaccine - Massachusetts eases restrictions on distribution of flu vaccine

Influenza Vaccine - Mesa, Arizona, supervisors to spend up to $250,000 to buy, administer flu shots

Influenza Vaccine - Minnesota health officials expand flu shot eligibility

Influenza Vaccine - Nebraska urges high-risk people to get flu shots soon

Influenza Vaccine - New Mexico distributes more flu vaccine

Influenza Vaccine - Oregon gets more doses of flu vaccine

Influenza Vaccine - Restrictions loosened after new vaccine shipments arrive

Influenza Vaccine - Rhode Island health officials say flu shots available for highest risk children

Influenza Vaccine - Vaccine won't prevent next flu pandemic, top WHO official warns

Keratoconjunctivitis -  Moraxella bovis isolated from cattle with infectious keratoconjunctivitis

Listeria Monocytogenes - Pasteurization destroys Listeria monocytogenes in peanut and chocolate products

Malaria - Susceptibility of Anopheles farauti to Plasmodium tested

Malaria Prevention - GM parasites yield potential malaria vaccine

Malaria Therapy - Ugandan study highlights best drug combinations for treating malaria in Africa

Melioidosis - Two-partner secretion system identified in Burkholderia pseudomallei

Neisseria Meningitides - MBL enhances IL-1 beta/IL-10 induction by components of N. meningitides

Norovirus - Vaccine for food poisoning possible

Obesity - Company reports progress in obesity drug development

Obesity - Young adults overeat when served larger amounts of food

Outbreak Surveillance - Syndromic surveillance rapidly detects infectious disease outbreaks

Outbreak Surveillance - U.S. approach to outbreak detection uses five interacting health care systems

Parasitic Diseases - Wider use of antiparasite drugs benefits very young children, pregnant women

Personnel - Biopharmaceutical company appoints vice president, regulatory affairs

Prions - Cre-loxP mediated control of PrP

Rabies - Experimental rabies treatment sees success

Respiratory Infections - Molecular methods used to improve diagnosis for difficult viral infections

SARS Transmission - Main mode of SARS transmission through droplet spread and close/direct contacts

Salmonella Outbreak -  Salmonella enteritidis outbreak associated with school-lunch dessert

Salmonella Outbreaks -  S. enterica serotype typhimurium outbreak linked to raw milk consumption

Sepsis - Simple intervention nearly eliminates catheter-related bloodstream infections

Sexual & Reproductive Health - "Recreational" Viagra, illicit drug use relatively common among gay men

Shellfish Poisoning - Paralytic shellfish poisoning outbreak caused by Gymnodinium catenatum

Staphylococcus Aureus -  S. aureus peptidoglycan increases matrix metalloproteinase

Trypanosoma Cruzi -  T. cruzi TcRho1 has a role in metacyclogenesis, cellular localization

Vaccine Development - Dutch biotech inks agreement to develop AdVac vector for AIDS vaccine program

Viral Nucleotide Quantitation - rPCR quantitates JC and BK viral genomes rapidly and without radionucleotides

Virology - Avian reovirus mutant has major core protein lesion and is defective in assembly

West Nile Virus - CDC gravid trap attractants to West Nile virus vectors evaluated