Vaccine Weekly

Otitis Media Vaccine -  Streptococcus pneumoniae neuraminidase protects against otitis media

Parkinson Disease - Immunization protects dopaminergic neurons in model of Parkinson disease

Pertussis Vaccine - No evidence found linking encephalopathy to pertussis vaccination

Pneumococcal Vaccine - Killed nonencapsulated cells protect mice against pneumococcal colonization

Prion Disease - Prion protein domains elicit antibody responses against native molecule

AIDS/HIV Vaccine - Challenges in the search for HIV vaccine outlined

AIDS/HIV Vaccine - DNA prime-MVA boost HIV vaccine tailored for eastern and central Africa

AIDS/HIV Vaccine - T cell-based control of SIV replication in AIDS vaccine trial reported

Allergy Medicine - Quaternary ammonium compounds exhibit adjuvant effect in murine model

Allergy Medicine - Tolerance in T cells accompanied by effector function in lymphoid organs

Alzheimer Disease - Amyloid accumulation in Alzheimer disease is response to chronic stress

Alzheimer Disease Vaccine - Testing of Alzheimer vaccines needed in non-murine models

Autoimmune Disease - Prostaglandin E₂ receptors up-regulated in peritoneal macrophages

Breast Cancer Vaccine - Farnesyl transferase inhibitors show promise as therapies for breast cancer

Breast Cancer Vaccine - Peptides inducing immune responses in breast cancer patients identified

Breast Cancer Vaccine - Tamoxifen and soluble tumor-associated antigens suppress breast cancer

Brucellosis Vaccine - Vaccine protects mice against virulent Brucella melitensis

Business & Finance - Pharma company reports second quarter 2004 results

Business Update - Generics producer granted rights for fluconazole, intends to file antiretroviral

Cancer Therapy - Biotechnology company and ViroTarg sign anticancer license agreement

Cancer Therapy - Pharma company announces publication of study examining Talabostat

Cancer Vaccine - Antigen-loading strategies of dendritic cells for cancer vaccines compared

Cancer Vaccine - CD4+ responses identified in patient vaccinated with NY-ESO-1

Cancer Vaccine - Epithelial cancer-related antigens applicable for peptide-based immunotherapy

Cancer Vaccine - Exosomes from plasmacytoma cells show promise as tumor vaccine

Cancer Vaccine - Monoclonal antibodies recognize idiotypic immunoglobulins of lymphoma cells

Cancer Vaccine - Thymus-leukemia antigen acts as tumor-specific antigen

Cancer Vaccine - Viral chemokine fusions trigger antitumor immunity independent of chemotaxis

Chagas Disease - Trypomastigote challenge of T. cruzi infected mice reduces parasitemia

Chickenpox - Varicella vaccine reduces contagiousness of chickenpox

Cholera Vaccine -  V. cholerae polysaccharide fragments are immunogenic in mice

Cryptococcus - Antibodies to Cryptococcus neoformans infection are nonprotective

Cytomegalovirus - Gender differences exist in cytokine secretion from cytomegalovirus infection

Cytomegalovirus Vaccine - CD8+ T-cell immunity to cytomegalovirus reviewed

Cytomegalovirus Vaccine - Cytomegalovirus-specific cellular immune responses reviewed

Cytomegalovirus Vaccine - Lentiviral vector encoding cytomegalovirus protein identifies epitopes

Cytomegalovirus Vaccine - Progress being made toward developing cytomegalovirus peptide vaccine

Diagnostics - Monocyte activation test for parenteral drug contaminants developed

Drug Delivery - Positive results reported: Electroporation-enabled DNA delivery sans anesthesia

Drug Development - Tobacco promising "factory" for biopharmaceuticals

Entamoeba Vaccine -  Entamoeba lectin epitopes recognized by human IgA antibodies identified

Finance - Immunotherapy company's second-quarter revenue dips

Finance - Maker of COLD-EEZE reports second quarter results

Francisella - Hsp60 plus copurified lipopolysaccharide protects against F. tularensis

Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Link between Guillain-Barre syndrome and hepatitis A vaccine reported

Hepatitis A Vaccine - Inactivated hepatitis A vaccine effective in children with liver disease

Hepatitis B Vaccine - Hepatitis B vaccine plus lamivudine did not eliminate viral DNA

Immunization - Vaccination blitz: 13,312 inoculations over 2 1/2 days

Immunology - Method to monitor T cell responses during vaccine studies developed

Immunology - Methods to recover cells from ELISPOT immunoassay developed