TB and Outbreaks Week

Coronavirus Outbreaks - Human coronavirus OC43 caused influenza-like illness in aged-care facilities

Pulmonary Tuberculosis - NRAMP1 gene variants associated with severe forms of pulmonary tuberculosis

SARS - SARS outbreak correlates with environmental temperature 7 days before onset

SARS Coronavirus - Phylogenetic method analyzes SARS-CoV sources and dissemination paths

Viral Meningitis - Viral meningitis outbreak associated with public swimming pond

Adverse Drug Reaction - Anti-tuberculosis drugs correlate with severe liver toxicity in Spain

Air Pollution - Air pollutants associated with early mortality

Anthrax Therapy - Management of anthrax meningitis reviewed

Business Update - Diagnostics company opens east Africa sales office

Campylobacter Jejuni - Long-term clonal lineages within C. jejuni O:2 strains from different areas

Chronic Tuberculosis - Chronic TB pulmonary Th1 cell maintenance requires persistent IL-12 production

Common Cold - Cure for colds needs to wiggle while it works

Dengue Fever - Dengue virus vaccine induces broad protective antibody response

Diagnostics - SSCP analysis is a quick investigatory tool for hepatitis A outbreaks

Diarrhea - New approaches to treat bacterial and protozoal infections reviewed

Disease Outbreaks - Europe still lacks epidemiological field forces to quickly diagnose outbreaks

Drug Development - DNA topoisomerase blockers show anti-trypanosomal activity

Food-Borne Illness - Signals between vibrios and the bivalve host clarify pathogenic role

Food-Borne Outbreak Epidemiology - Questionnaire investigates food-borne disease outbreak in early 20th century

HIV/AIDS Coinfection - GBV-C infection does not influence chemokine/cytokine expression HIV coinfection

HIV/AIDS Diagnosis - Gay men with late HIV diagnosis have increased short-term mortality

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - Complex structure of HIV-1 transmission within risk groups revealed

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - Heterosexual route most common means of HIV transmission in Central India

HIV/AIDS Healthcare - Endoscopic findings comparable between Asian/Western symptomatic HIV patients

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Culturally based model designed to reduce Latino adolescent HIV sexual risk

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Differences in risk behavior and perception between U.S. and Russian IVDUs

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Education used to prevent the spread of HIV infection

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Vaginal microbicides can reduce the risk of acquiring HIV in female sex workers

HIV/AIDS Risk Behavior - Crystal methamphetamine use leads to high-risk sex in gay men

HIV/AIDS Testing - HIV voluntary counseling and testing center efficiency lacking in Andhra Pradesh

HIV/AIDS-Associated Candida Infection - Genetic heterogeneity in subgingival C. albicans isolates from HIV patients

HIV/AIDS-Associated Kaposi Sarcoma - Generic HAART reduces viral load to undetectable in AIDS-associated KS patients

HIV/AIDS-Associated Pneumococcal Infection - Elevated procalcitonin/CRP predictive of pneumococcal infection in HIV patients

HIV/AIDS-Associated Pneumonia - IVDU fueling recurrent bacterial pneumonia in people with AIDS in Europe

HIV/AIDS-Tuberculosis Coinfection - Concomitant TB treatment and HAART more challenging than TB treatment alone

HIV/Tuberculosis-Coinfection - HIV/OI patients on HAART may develop immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome

HTLV-I - HTLV-I Tax protein found in cerebral spinal fluid of HAM/TSP patients

Hantavirus - Hantavirus epidemics are cyclical