TB and Outbreaks Week

HIV/AIDS Behavioral Medicine - Prevention counseling reduces HIV transmission among uninfected partners

HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials - MedDRA assessed for global events coding in HIV clinical trials

HIV/AIDS Education - Similar stigma attached to AIDS and SARS

HIV/AIDS Healthcare Costs - Feasible to effectively treat same number of patients at same or lower cost per patient

HIV/AIDS Mortality - Several factors cause HIV/AIDS-related deaths despite mortality rate decline

HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infection - Oral manifestations occur commonly among HIV-infected children in Romania

HIV/AIDS Pharmaceutical Research - Extended-release clarithromycin well tolerated and bioequivalent to IR formulation

HIV/AIDS Tobacco Use - Tobacco smoking increases mortality and decreases quality of life in HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS-Tuberculosis Coinfection - No particular MTB or M. avium clones prevail in HIV-infected persons in Japan

HIV/AIDS-Tuberculosis Coinfection - Tuberculosis modestly increases T-cell proliferation in the absence of HIV

Infectious Bronchitis Virus - Infectious bronchitis variant viruses circulate in commercial poultry

Influenza - Copper could help prevent the spread of flu infections

Influenza - Copper industry group says copper could help contain flu

Influenza Vaccines - Influenza vaccine with broad spectrum of efficacy urgently needed

Louse Epidemic - Louse epidemic may have been major factor in French retreat from Russia Vilnius

Malaria - Malaria-related lactic acidosis safely treated with dichloroacetate

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis - Live B. malayi microfilariae pre-exposure alters innate dendritic cell response to MTB

Norovirus Outbreaks - Norovirus gastroenteritis outbreak associated with raw frozen oysters

Rotavirus - Newly-licensed rotavirus vaccine traveled long road in development

Rubella - Many foreign-born women in Miami are not vaccinated for rubella

SARS Outbreaks - Lack of infection control measures could lead to large-scale hospital SARS outbreaks

SARS Outbreaks - Lessons from SARS outbreak incorporated into U.K. Health Protection Agency plan

SARS Vaccines - Researchers' work adds to SARS vaccines body of knowledge

Tuberculosis - Medical technology company signs agreement to develop tuberculosis biomarkers

Tuberculosis Infection -  M. tuberculosis infection may protect against allergy in TB endemic area

Tuberculosis Vaccines - Advances in tuberculosis vaccine development summarized

Tuberculosis Vaccines - BCG causes quantitative changes in T-cell subpopulations in infants

Tuberculosis Vaccines - Review focuses on preclinical testing of new vaccines for tuberculosis

Virology - Transfer of orf virus from sheep, goats to humans is easily prevented

West Nile Virus - Study subjects had 23 single nucleotide polymorphisms not found in controls