TB and Outbreaks Week

HIV/AIDS Behavioral Medicine - Men who pay women for sex have higher rates of STIs and low HIV testing levels

HIV/AIDS Behavioral Medicine - Optimistic HIV/AIDS perception leads to unprotected sex among men who have sex with men

HIV/AIDS Behavioral Medicine - Seasonal work migration and unsafe sex practices facilitate HIV spread in China

HIV/AIDS Drug Resistance - HIV-1 drug resistance mutations increasing in Thailand

HIV/AIDS Drug Resistance - Recent HIV-1 seroconverters more likely to have transmitted drug resistance

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - Determination of gag and env subtypes of HIV-1 detected among injecting drug users

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - Different patient population accounts for increased AIDS incidence in France

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - Frequency of HIV/AIDS protective SDF1-3'A gene high among blood donors in Crete

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - HIV-1 infection risk associated with SDF1 polymorphism and CXCR4 variation in South Africa

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - HIV-1 subtype C is the predominant strain in southern Brazil

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - Perinatal HIV transmission rate decreased in Sao Paulo

HIV/AIDS Genetics & Genomics - Genetic variation pattern at CCR5-Delta 32 consistent with neutral evolution

HIV/AIDS Orphans - HIV positivity or losing a parent to AIDS increases institutionalization in Brazil

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Majority of HIV-infected pregnant women lost to follow-up in prevention program in Malawi

HIV/AIDS Transmission - Real-time RT-PCR and bDNA correlate for HIV-1 RNA quantitation in breast milk

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - Lack of awareness must be addressed to ensure adequate number of vaccine trial volunteers

HIV/AIDS-Related Cancer - Systemic non-Hodgkin lymphoma prevalent in HIV/AIDS patients in Lima

Infectious Diseases - Candidate receptors for malaria sporozoite invasion of salivary glands identified

Influenza - Anti-4-1BB and anti-ICOS synergistically activate CD4 and CD8 T cells

Influenza - Majority of countries are not fully prepared for an influenza pandemic

Influenza Vaccine - GlaxoSmithKline biologicals submits first European pandemic influenza vaccine application

Mycobacterium Pathogenesis - Activation of multiple TLRs contributes to efficient innate response to mycobacteria

Outbreak - Limited measles outbreak is reported in highly vaccinated U.S. boarding school

Proteomics -  Mycobacterium tuberculosis regulates CD1 antigen presentation pathways through TLR-2

Public Health - Monkeypox has re-emerged in the United States

Rabies - Raccoon dogs help circulate rabies virus within their natural territories in the Far East

Tuberculosis Pathogenesis -  M. tuberculosis mymA operon and mptpB gene play role in MTB survival in the host

Tuberculosis Pathogenesis - CD43 required for optimal growth inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Tuberculosis Pathogenesis - IL-12 and TNF-alpha differentially regulated by PI 3-K and ERK 1/2 pathways in MTB infection

Tuberculosis Pathogenesis - IL-15 may mediate active disease during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

Tuberculosis Therapy - Gatifloxacin-containing regimen offers potential shorter treatment for TB

Tuberculous Meningitis - Clinical characteristics predictive of poor outcome in tuberculous meningitis

Type 1 Diabetes - Type 1 diabetes mortality in Soweto similar to African-Americans in the U.S.

Viral Meningitis Outbreaks - Echovirus 30 most prevalent etiological agent of viral meningitis outbreaks in Brazil