TB and Outbreaks Week

Dengue Fever Outbreaks - Dengue outbreak characterized by prominent gastrointestinal symptoms

Drug Resistance - Ciprofloxacin failure against TB due to rapid emergence of resistance

Epidemiology - Osteomyelitis/septic arthritis outbreak in children caused by K. kingae

Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreaks - Foot-and-mouth disease virus variant responsible for recent outbreaks in India

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Epidemiology - High infectiousness of RSV permits rapid geographic spread of novel variants

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - RT-PCR assay identifies BSE risk material in meat and meat products

Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Prognosis - Detectable plasma CMV load at CMV retinitis diagnosis associated with mortality

Diagnostics - Tuberculosis infection may be prevented by quick DNA testing

Drug Development - Lipophilic antifolate trimetrexate inhibits Trypanosoma cruzi

Drug Development - Monoclonal antibody combination neutralizes natural rabies virus variants

Drug Development - Novel precursors for antimalarial antifolates identified

Drug Development - Secondary metabolites from Chamaedora tepejilote are active against MTB

Drug Safety - Liposomal amphotericin B safe/effective for pediatric visceral leishmaniasis

Epidemiology - Amyloid A amyloidosis associated with familial Mediterranean fever

Epidemiology - Ancestral infection and selection graph reconstruct host virus histories

Epidemiology - Early clinical features of West Nile virus infection are nonspecific

Epidemiology - Surveillance data suggest that preschoolers drive flu epidemics

Epstein Barr Virus - Two distinct cells of origin for EBV-positive and EBV-negative Burkitt lymphomas

Food Safety - High-pressure treatment increases inactivation of bacterial toxins

Genetics & Genomics - Comparative genomics assess significance of emerging Escherichia coli

Genetics & Genomics - Gene functions identified for melanization of Cryptococcus neoformans

HIV/AIDS & Pulmonary Tuberculosis - HIV patients with nonhealing oral lesions should be screened for pulmonary TB

HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - Dried blood spots used for molecular diagnosis and monitoring HIV-1 infection

HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - Genotypic assay detects all HIV-1 protease and reverse transcriptase subtypes

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - HIV-1 group M isolates are 100-fold-more fit than group 0 or HIV-2 strains

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Mucosal barrier greatly limits SIV infection of cervicovaginal tissues

HIV/AIDS Prevention - African women’s group unveils new campaign to fight AIDS

HIV/AIDS Prevention - HAART suppresses HIV-1 RNA/not DNA in breast milk during pregnancy/postpartum