TB and Outbreaks Week

HIV/AIDS Adverse Drug Reactions - Adverse events are most common reasons for generic HAART modification in Southern India

HIV/AIDS Behavioral Medicine - Drug relief hospital-based AIDS education improves prevention behaviors

HIV/AIDS Behavioral Medicine - Safe sex interventions have had a positive impact on female sex workers in Pune

HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - HIV infection probability in a child depends on nature/number of manifestations present

HIV/AIDS Disease Control - AIDS epidemic fueled by injection drug use in China

HIV/AIDS Drug Resistance - Infant-only prophylaxis eliminates nevirapine resistance development in mothers and infants

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - New findings in HIV/AIDS epidemiology described

HIV/AIDS HAART - Poor HAART adherence and an increased drug resistant HIV-1 strain in China related

HIV/AIDS Risk Factors - Environmental and economic factors that increase risk of HIV/AIDS outlined in new book

HIV/AIDS Risk Factors - Having an HIV+ sex partner independently associated with time to HIV seroconversion

HIV/AIDS Risk Factors - Women in Cambodia at increased risk of HIV infection from husbands

HIV/AIDS Transmission - Cell reservoirs in lymph nodes infected with HIV-1 subtype E differ from subtype B

HIV/AIDS Transmission - Sexual HIV transmission may bridge high-risk populations with general populations

HIV/AIDS Treatment & Prevention - United Nations supports and strengthens the response to AIDS in China

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - International AIDS Vaccine Initiative brings new science and technology to the poor

HIV/AIDS-Related Lymphoma - Systemic and CNS HIV-related non-Hodgkin lymphoma incidence decreased in HAART era

HIV/AIDS-Related Meningitis - Cranial CT findings differ between HIV-infected and uninfected children with meningitis

Influenza - Influenza A burden underestimated in children and infants

Kidney Transplantation - HHV8 prevalence is low in renal donors and recipients in Greece

Lung Transplantation - Morbidity and mortality high in lung transplant patients with untreated pulmonary TB

Morbidity & Mortality - Health and demographic surveillance conducted in rural western Kenya

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis - Virulent M. tuberculosis isolates grow rapidly and induce cellular necrosis in macrophages

Pediatrics - Influenza A increases pediatric emergency room admission rates

Pharmaceutical Research - Moxifloxacin kills S. pneumoniae faster than other antibiotics

Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia - Complement and Fc function required for optimal antibody prophylaxis against PCP

Public Health - U.S. HHS deputy secretary speaks at pandemic planning summit

SARS - Data advance knowledge in SARS research

SARS - Findings advance knowledge in SARS research

SARS - Reports advance knowledge in SARS research

SARS - Researchers describe findings in SARS studies

SARS - Studies advance knowledge in SARS research

Salmonella Outbreaks -  Salmonella oranienburg outbreak in Japan caused by snack made from semidry cuttlefish

Tuberculosis - Vitamin D may fight tuberculosis

Tuberculosis Therapy - Rifampin/pyrazinamide causes severe liver injury in tuberculosis patients

Tuberculosis Vaccine - Tuberculin skin testing is useful for infection control

Tuberculosis Vaccine - Tuberculosis is protected against by apoptotic vesicles that cross-prime CD8 T cells

Virology - Influenza H5N1 viruses may be distributed widely in tree sparrows