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Vaccine Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . June 16th, 2004

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Cancer Vaccine - Dendritic cells loaded with antigen enhance antitumor immunity

Cytomegalovirus Vaccine - Glycoprotein B vaccine protects against cytomegalovirus infection

DNA Vaccine - Apoptosis increases efficacy of alphaviral replicase-based DNA vaccines

Malaria Therapy - Malaria therapy in infants and childhood vaccinations studied

Prostate Cancer Vaccine - Prostate tissue-specific vaccine candidate identified

AIDS Therapy - Institute receives $3.5 million for AIDS vaccine research

Allergy Medicine - Vaccine new treatment for allergies?

Anthrax - Monoclonal antibodies to B. anthracis capsular antigen developed

Autism - Group comments on new report rejecting link between vaccines and autism

Business Update - New company launched for development of therapeutic DNA vaccines

Cancer Therapy - Company reaches full enrollment in phase II non-small cell lung cancer trial

Cancer Vaccine - Heated tumor cells elicit anti-tumor immunity

Cancer Vaccine - Vector of membrane fusogenic liposomes used for melanoma vaccine

Cervical Cancer - Plant viruses have potential to deliver anti-HPV vaccine

Colorectal Cancer - HLA-DR T cell epitopes of CEA identified colorectal cancer patients

Coronavirus - Live attenuated coronavirus vaccines protect against feline peritonitis

Cytomegalovirus Vaccine - Modified vaccinia virus elicits antibodies to cytomegalovirus strains

DNA Vaccine - DNA vaccine may protect piglets against porcine circovirus type 2

Dendritic Cell Vaccine - Antigen-loaded CD40-deficient dendritic cells mimic antigen delivery

Encephalitis - Amino acid changes reducing virulence of tick-borne encephalitis found

Epidemiology - HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects African American women

Finance - Pharmaceutical company closes $18.3M Series C financing

Hepatitis C Vaccine - Hepatitis C-derived lipopeptides induced antibody-producing T cells

Herpesvirus - Protein kinase inhibitors are promising herpesviruses inhibitors

Herpesvirus Vaccine - Gamma-herpesvirus 68 protects IFN receptor knockout mice from infection

Immunizations - Definition of vaccine advocacy and plan for action proposed

Immunology - Presentation of pathogen-derived antigens in vivo reviewed

Immunology - Toll-like receptor 2 ligand stimulates Th2 responses in vivo

Japanese Encephalitis - In vivo electroporation increases efficacy of encephalitis vaccine

Leishmaniasis - HLA class II alleles play role in protection from leishmaniasis

Malaria Transmission -  Plasmodium vivax transmission and control reviewed

Malaria Vaccine - Malaria prime boost vaccines reviewed

Measles Vaccine - Influence of HLA-DRB1 alleles on immune responses to measles examined

Measles Vaccine - Maternal vaccine status affects placental transfer of measles antibody

Measles Vaccine - Number of infectious measles viruses in vaccines estimated by PCR

Melanoma Vaccine - Enhanced tumor response to dendritic cells without CD8+ cells reported

Meningitis Vaccine - Meningococcal PorA protein induces bactericidal immune response

Meningococcal Vaccine - Meningococcal conjugate vaccines reviewed

Microencapsulation - Antigen delivery by polylactide co-glycolide microparticles developed

Mucosal Immunization - Mucosal immunization with cholera adjuvant offers long-term immunity

Nuclear Factor - IAP expression induces intestinal epithelial cells to resist apoptosis

Personnel - Thomas H. McLain named chairman of the board of StaphVAX maker

Pertussis Vaccine - Effect of pertussis vaccines on pulmonary immunology via aerosol reviewed

Pertussis Vaccine - Rapid purification method for pertussis toxin developed

Polio Vaccine - Analysis of poliovirus isolates from patients and vaccinees reported

Rotavirus - Surveillance planned in Asia for devastating diarrheal disease in children

SARS - Chinese scientists begin testing SARS vaccine on humans

Salmonella - Anti-Salmonella typhi Vi ELISA developed

Smallpox - The search for a safer smallpox vaccine: new data on promising candidate

Streptococcus - Streptococcal inhibitor of complement interactions investigated

Vaccine Adjuvant -  Asparagus racemosus extract shows potential as vaccine adjuvant

Vaccine Adjuvant - Host factors affecting response to vaccine adjuvants reported

Vaccine Development - DNA shuffling and screening technologies overcome antigenic diversity

Vaccine Development - Method to load antigen-presenting protein with glycolipids developed

Varicella Vaccine - HMO varicella vaccination program decreases incidence of varicella

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia - Company gets grant for development of P. aeruginosa vaccine

Virology - Book says monkey virus contaminated polio vaccine

Virology - Study suggests double punch could more efficiently kill viruses

Virology Vaccine - Cytokine responses to inactivated viruses fail to default without IL-12

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