Vaccine Weekly

Immunology - Mucosal and systemic immunity to intestinal infection in aged mice studied

Infection - Peptidoglycan not associated with sensing of bacteria by toll-like receptor 2

Infectious Bursal Disease Virus - Particles formed by infectious bursal disease virus protein characterized

Infectious Disease - Immunology experts move forward on worldwide research database

Influenza - First case of flu detected in South Dakota

Influenza - Next flu pandemic could kill 7 million people, according to WHO expert

Influenza Vaccine - Federal officials investigate flu vaccine smuggling

Influenza Vaccine - Flu vaccine nearly as abundant as in 2003 in New Mexico

Influenza Vaccine - Hawaii gets more flu vaccine for at-risk patients

Influenza Vaccine - Health director now plans to order more doses of flu vaccine

Influenza Vaccine - Method to measure T cell immunity to influenza vaccination developed

Influenza Vaccine - Nevadans to be offered 93,000 flu vaccine doses

Influenza Vaccine - Structured model of influenza virus replication in MDCK cells created

Influenza Vaccine - TCR V beta repertoire directed against influenza CTL epitope reported

Influenza Vaccine - Tennessee's flu shot plan inoculates elderly in facilities first

Influenza Vaccine - U.S., Russian pharmaceuticals sign contract to produce flu vaccines in Russia

Influenza Vaccine - Vermont to hold more flu clinics

Information Technology - Grid software developer selected by IBM to power world community research grid

Lyme Disease Vaccine - OspA protein of Borrelia burgdorferi vaccination results in neuropathy

Malaria Vaccine - Membrane antigen and merozoite protein protect against P. chabaudi malaria

Measles Transmission - Airplane measles exposure offers lessons on disease contact response

Measles Vaccine - Impact of declining vaccination on subclinical measles infections reported

Medical Ethics - Ethics of preventive vaccination programs explored

Mucosal Immunization - Delivery to gut addressin by parenteral targeting elicits local IgA responses

Poxvirus - Poxvirus protein forms a complex with left-handed Z-DNA

Poxvirus - Vaccinia virus kinase induces p53 downregulation by Mdm2-dependent mechanism

Prion Disease - Humoral immune response to prion protein correlates with protection

Prions - Oligomerization of proteolytic products in prions shown

Prostate Cancer - Provenge data: Vaccine therapy for prostate cancer is shown to extend survival

Renal Cancer - CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes recognize renal carcinoma antigens

Rubella Vaccine - Immunization law revisions affect incidence of congenital rubella in Japan

Smallpox Diagnosis - Rapid detection method for vaccinia virus developed

Spondylitis - T cell epitopes in HLA-B27 mice linked to spondyloarthropathy identified

Toxoplasmosis Vaccine - Vaccination protects B cell-deficient mice against Toxoplasma gondii

Vaccine Adjuvant - Gut dendritic cells mobilize and mature after oral cholera toxin vaccine

Vaccine Delivery - Topical permeation enhancers deliver microparticles to Langerhans' cells

Vaccine Development - Bacterial heat shock proteins enhance class II MHC antigen processing

Vaccine Development - Gene-gun DNA vaccination intensifies RSV-induced lung pathology in mice

Vaccine Development - IFN-gamma enables cross-presentation of protein antigen in Langerhans cells

Vaccine Development - Naked sequence-stabilized mRNA vaccine generates immunity to diverse antigens

Vaccine Development - Protein to antigen fusion heightens the efficacy of DNA cancer vaccine

Vaccine Safety - Safety concerns regarding combination vaccines described

Vaccinia Virus Vaccine - Neutralizing antibody activities to vaccinia virus proteins are synergistic

Varicella - Wyoming health officials concerned with chickenpox cases

Varicella-Zoster Virus - Varicella-zoster virus genome cloned as artificial chromosome in E. coli

Virology - Influenza vaccination is not associated with liver transplant rejection

Virology Vaccine - Rapid response of marginal zone B cells to viral particles reported

Yellow Fever Vaccine - Risk of fatal adverse events linked to 17DD yellow fever vaccine determined