Vaccine Weekly

Finance - RNAi company updates Q2, reports $0.2 million in revenues

Finance - Vaccine maker reports increased revenues, provides quarter and 6-month update

Gastroenterology Vaccine - PPAR-gamma protects against acute gastric mucosal lesions

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - Generex expands HIV vaccine efforts with MGH investigator

Head and Neck Cancer - $10 million grant aims to improve cancer outcomes

Immunology - Immunity against infections and vaccines reviewed

Immunology - Keratinocyte-targeted IL-15 overexpression enhances cutaneous immunity

Immunology - Lactoglobulin conjugation with oligosaccharides reduces immungenicity

Immunology - Specific CTL priming achieved in mouse neonates exposed to spleen cells

Influenza - Company produces further pandemic-like influenza vaccines for NIH studies

Influenza - Complying with new flu guidelines may be impractical and costly

Influenza - U.S. prepares for possible flu outbreak

Influenza Vaccine - CDC says tainted flu vaccine may cause slight delay, but no shortage

Malaria Vaccine -  Plasmodium growth factor-like motifs needed for erythrocyte invasion

Melioidosis - Scientists to develop vaccine to combat bioterrorism threat from deadly bacteria

Multiple Sclerosis - Epitope spread predicts disease in model of multiple sclerosis

Pancreatic Cancer - Additional data from phase I trial of GVAX pancreatic cancer vaccine reported

Parapertussis -  Bordetella parapertussis strains in Poland characterized

Peritonitis Vaccine -  Salmonella protein coupled to Vi antigen protects against peritonitis

Pertussis - North Dakota running short of money for whooping cough tests

Pertussis Vaccine - Acellular pertussis booster induces humoral immunity in adolescents

Pertussis Vaccine - Antibody decay after acellular pertussis vaccine determined

Polio - New polio cases confirmed in Guinea, Mali and the Sudan

Poliomyelitis - India's antipolio campaign meets resistance among poor in eastern Bihar state

Prion Disease - Immunoprecipitation of prion protein mediated by antibodies

Schistosomiasis - Schistosome proteins play roles in host-parasite interactions

Smallpox Therapy - Antiviral prophylaxis of smallpox reviewed

Streptococcal Vaccine - Group B streptococcal conjugate vaccine effective in older adults

Toxoplasmosis - Sterile immunity against toxoplasmosis in rats investigated

Tuberculosis Vaccine -  M. tuberculosis and M. bovis BCG induce equal protection

Typhoid Fever Vaccine - Profile of travelers needing typhoid fever vaccination reported

Typhoid Vaccine - Immune responses to oral typhoid vaccine strain reported

Vaccine Adjuvant - HSP60 induces self-tolerance to repeated HSP60 stimulation

Vaccine Delivery - Cholera toxin bile-salt-stabilized vesicles for oral vaccines developed

Vaccine Development - Bacterial genomes pave the way to novel vaccines

Vaccine Development - Ovalbumin incorporated into ISCOMs by lipid film hydration method