TB and Outbreaks Week

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Availability of contraception information changes the sexual behavior of youth in South Africa

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Condom use compliments abstinence and faithfulness as part of AIDS prevention strategies

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Flash-heating breast milk eliminates viruses and bacteria while retaining nutrients

HIV/AIDS Sociology - S. African adolescents suffer emotionally from having HIV-infected parents or from own infection

HIV/AIDS Vaccines - Data advance knowledge in HIV/AIDS vaccines research

HIV/Tuberculosis Coinfection - HAART may amplify the presentation of active tuberculosis

Infectious Diseases - Expert warns that emerging wildlife diseases pose a threat to human and animal health

Infectious Diseases - Recent steroid therapy increases severity of varicella infections in children with ALL

Influenza - Cotton rats are useful for the study of influenza virus pathogenesis

Influenza - Ethicists offer a guide to decision-making during the predicted flu pandemic

Leishmaniasis - Visceral leishmaniasis spreads into Uttar Pradesh, India

Malaria - Identification of an enzyme crucial to malaria invasion may help identify drug target

Malaria - Pattern of malaria transmission may be related to heterogeneity in children

Malaria Vaccines - Studies describe new findings in malaria vaccines research

Norovirus Outbreaks - Norovirus infection induces antibodies that can block virus ligand interactions

Nosocomial Infections - Transfusion rates correlate with pneumonia and bloodstream infections in the ICU

Pharmaceutical Research - High-dose rifapentine-moxifloxacin plus isoniazid once weekly effectively treats TB

Pharmaceutical Research - PCR restriction-enzyme pattern analysis subtype does not correlate with M. kansasii disease

Pharmaceutical Research - Sophorolipid virucidal against HIV but induces vaginal cell toxicity

Proteomics - Researchers publish new studies and findings in the area of proteomics

Pulmonary Tuberculosis - Pulmonary TB in Central Africa associated with increased specific T cell cytokine responses

Rabies Vaccine - Simplified technique optimizes potency and safety of Vero cell culture-derived rabies vaccines

Swine Influenza - Study claims U.S. swine workers may be at an increased risk of infection with swine influenza virus

Transplant Medicine -  P. aeruginosa is predominant organism causing pneumonia in orthotopic liver transplantation

Trypanosomiasis - Proposed are nucleoside analogs resistant to ADA as candidates for treatment of late-stage HAT

Tuberculosis - Immune response to mycobacterial antigens is decreased in resistant tuberculosis

Tuberculosis Risk Factors - Risk factors for extrapulmonary TB development vary according to area of birth

Tuberculosis Treatment - Low serum concentrations of antimycobacterial drugs are common in Botswana

Tuberculosis Treatment - Subclinical adrenal insufficiency in TB patients reversed through antituberculosis treatment

Tuberculosis Vaccine - BCG vaccination protects against TB disease and TB infection

Tuberculosis Vaccine - Boosting with M. tuberculosis major secretory protein enhances BCG vaccine protection

Vaccine Development - New vaccines for immunocompromised patients may be feasible, researchers say

Virology - Herpes zoster infection rates have not changed among HIV patients in the HAART era

West Nile Virus Screening - Nucleic acid amplification tests identify West Nile virus from negative minipool screens