Vaccine Weekly

Influenza - Biotech company to develop flu vaccine using proprietary technology

Influenza - CDC chief says flu season off to a slow start

Influenza - Employee health education may be the best medicine

Influenza - Expert: World unprepared for flu pandemic

Influenza - Most people can skip flu vaccine

Influenza - Safety trials for flu vaccines nasal technology to be complete early next year

Influenza - Specialist suggests pregnant women request flu vaccine to protect mom and baby

Influenza - Tests begin of flu vaccine grown in insect cell lines

Influenza - Vaccine production relies on quaint system

Influenza Epidemiology - Three-year epidemiological surveillance of influenza in Italy reported

Influenza Vaccine - Influenza mutants with altered nuclear export signal sequence developed

Influenza Vaccine - Influenza vaccine enhances immune responses to SHIV antigens

Influenza Vaccine - PharmD comments on producing flu shots

Influenza Vaccine - Survey finds public not too worried about flu vaccine shortage

Influenza Vaccine - Trivalent influenza vaccine immunogenic in HIV-infected children

Influenza Virus - Influenza increases winter mortality in the United States

Leishmaniasis -  Leishmania paradigm of pathogenesis and protection reviewed

Leishmaniasis Vaccine - Development of effector and memory T cells in leishmaniasis reviewed

Malaria - Study shows Corixa's MPL adjuvant protected against uncomplicated malaria

Malaria Transmission - Antibodies immobilize Plasmodium sporozoites injected by mosquitoes

Malaria Vaccine - Challenges to developing vaccine to malaria parasites reviewed

Malaria Vaccine - Information on mixed Plasmodium infections aids vaccine development

Malaria Vaccine - Multiple infections needed to acquire immunity to malaria

Measles Vaccine - CD46 level not altered in measles virus vaccine strain-infected cells

Measles Vaccine - Measles has re-emerged among young adults in Marseilles, France

Measles Vaccine - Transverse myelitis reported after measles and rubella vaccination

Mergers & Acquisitions - Biotechnology companies revise merger terms

Multiple Sclerosis - T-cell hybridoma specific for myelin glycoprotein peptide produced

Mycobacteria - Extensive genomic polymorphism within Mycobacterium avium

Nematode Infection - IL-4-producing T cells during intestinal nematode infections reviewed

Patents - Cancer vaccine candidate patent strengthens company's pipeline

Personnel - Flu vaccine developer promotes new executive VP, appoints senior executives

Personnel - James Clavijo named orBec maker's controller, treasurer, and corporate secretary

Personnel - Kathrin U. Jansen, PhD, named senior VP and CSO at vaccine company

Pertussis - Health officials still seeing whooping cough cases

Pertussis - Whooping cough reemerges, hits adolescents hard in U.S., puts infants at risk

Piroplasmosis -  Theileria orientalis piroplasm protein characterized

Receptor Studies - Interaction of antibody with IgE cell surface receptor characterized

Rift Valley Fever Virus - Rift Valley fever virus protein blocks interferon production

Smallpox Vaccine - Clinical development begun to study attenuated smallpox vaccine drug

Smallpox Vaccine - Stevens-Johnson syndrome after smallpox vaccination reported

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome -  Haemophilus influenzae vaccine reduces SIDS risk

Tetanus - Surviving a rare bout of tetanus

Toxoplasmosis -  Toxoplasma heat shock protein stimulates dendritic cell maturation

Vaccine Development - Agreement announced for PER.C6 technology for foot-and-mouth disease vaccines

Vaccine Development - Antibody to MCP-1 shutters hemangioendothelioma proliferation

Vaccine Development - Gene vaccines lead immune response reactions in the desired direction

Vaccine Development - Pharmaceutical device manufacturer announces long-term deal renewal

Vaccine Vector - Vaccine prevents Newcastle disease and infectious bursal disease

Virology - A novel DNA prime-boosting regimen produces antiviral immunity in study models

West Nile Virus - Current status of West Nile virus reviewed

West Nile Virus - West Nile cases in Iowa drop in 2004

Yellow Fever Vaccine - Divergence and dispersal of yellow fever virus in Brazil described

Yellow Fever Vaccine - Substitution in yellow fever-dengue virus protein reduces viremia

Yellow Fever Virus - Genetic relationships of yellow fever virus group investigated