Vaccine Weekly

Leishmaniasis Vaccine - Glycovaccine protects against bite of Leishmania-infected flies

Smallpox Vaccine - Aventis Pasteur smallpox vaccine elicits strong cellular immune response

Smallpox Vaccine - Specific cytokine secretion plays key role in adverse effects of smallpox vaccine

Smallpox Vaccine - Vaccinia epitopes conserved among vaccinia and variola viruses have been identified

Streptococcal Vaccine - Intranasal delivery is effective for lipid core peptides targeting group A streptococcal M protein

Allergy & Immunology - Activity of purified dust mite allergen crucially commits to sensitization process

Allergy & Immunology - Hypoallergenic DNA vaccines were generated by using forced ubiquitination

Allergy & Immunology - Immunotherapy protocols for Hymenoptera venom allergy are presented

Anthrax Vaccine - New-onset rheumatoid arthritis was reported after anthrax vaccination

Avian Influenza - Analysis of Spanish flu cases suggests serotherapy might help in bird flu pandemic

Avian Influenza - Planning needed to prepare for avian influenza pandemic

Avian Influenza - University of Pittsburgh receives $1.3 million from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to develop bird flu vaccine

Brain Cancer - National Brain Tumor Foundation funds research into glioblastoma multiforme

Breast Cancer - Immuno-editing of cancers may result in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

Business Update - Four studies affirm significance of Monogram's Trofile HIV co-receptor tropism assay

Business Update - GenVec vaccine technology enters first HIV human clinical trials at Vaccine Research Center at NIH

Business Update - Medical Services receives approval for HIV, TB, hepatitis C test kits in Russian Federation

Business Update - Viropro reports agreement for protein manufacturing facility in Tunisia nearly complete

Cancer Gene Therapy - Melanoma gene-interleukin combination induces anticancer immunity

Cancer Therapy - Celldex Therapeutics presents new EGFRvIII expression and clinical data at summit

Cancer Therapy - Gene-modified dendritic cells stimulate specific T cell responses

Cancer Vaccine - DNA vaccines encoding tumor-associated antigen provide immunity

Cancer Vaccine - Recombinant Escherichia coli expressing invasin targets Peyer's patches

Cancer Vaccine - Salmonella oral DNA vaccine prevents hepatocellular carcinoma and colon cancer growth

Cancer Vaccine - Tumor cells with B7.1 and staphylococcal enterotoxin A provide antitumor immunity

Cervical Cancer Vaccine - Brisbane teens receive the first cervical cancer vaccine shots

Chickenpox Vaccine - Universal varicella vaccination may be cost effective in Germany

DNA Vaccine - Dendritic cell vaccine and RNA expression vector induce cytotoxic T cell responses

Dendritic Cell Vaccine - Activation of dendritic cells by Toll-like receptor ligation induces CTL responses

Dental Caries Vaccine - Microencapsulated Streptococcus mutans protein protects against dental caries

HIV/AIDS Gene Therapy - Method to select and expand cells after HIV vector transduction has been developed

HIV/AIDS Prevention - AIDS groups say South Africa health minister should resign, response to epidemic slow

HIV/AIDS Research - Study results of two-drug regimen show sustained viral suppression in treated HIV patients

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Geron presents data on HIV/AIDS drug candidate at the XVI International AIDS Conference

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - Hairpin RNAs targeting retroviral integration suppress HIV-1

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - HIV-based vector expresses antiviral shRNA against HIV-1 replication

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - MLV(HIV-1) pseudotype vector induces HIV-1-specific immune responses

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - Swedish HIV vaccine study reveals over 90 percent of subjects developed immune response

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - Vical initiates trial of prime-boost vaccine for disease prevention in HIV-infected patients

Healthcare Access - Immunization disparities among older Americans were investigated

Hepatitis C Virus - Hepatitis C virus infection recovery is associated with antigenic hierarchy

Human Papillomavirus - Prevalence of human papillomavirus infection in South Wales is reported

Human Papillomavirus - Seventy percent of adults support use of HPV vaccine, despite ignorance of HPV

Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus - Re-immunization with HTLV-1-infected cells reduced HTLV-1 proviral loads

Influenza Pandemic - Strategies identified for mitigating influenza pandemic

Influenza Vaccine - Antibodies against matrix protein 2 of the influenza A virus are described

Influenza Vaccine - Complex T cell memory repertoires participate in recall responses at antigen load extremes

Lyme Disease Vaccine - Lyme disease prevention program is offered to working population

Malaria Therapy - Intermittent preventive malaria treatment was moderately successful in Mozambican infants

Measles - Health campaign launched to protect Indonesian children

Measles Epidemiology - Measles outbreak was exacerbated by children not vaccinated due to safety concerns

Melanoma Vaccine - Effective melanoma-specific CD8+ T cells are induced in circulation by vaccine

Melanoma Vaccine - Extracellular targeting of grp170 enhances tumor immunity to poorly immunogenic melanoma

Patents - Carrington subsidiary DelSite granted Chinese patent on GelSite polymer technology

Polio Vaccine - Polio immunization policies in South Africa are not all cost-effective

Prostate Cancer - Dendreon submits clinical and non-clinical sections of rolling BLA to U.S. FDA for Provenge

Retinal Degeneration - Age and degree of photoreceptor degeneration are important for retinal gene therapy

Retrovirus - Selection based on vector expression biases integration site repertoire

SARS Vaccine - SARS coronavirus 7a accessory protein is a viral structural protein

Smallpox Vaccine - Skin test with inactivated vaccinia virus predicts residual immunity to smallpox

Smallpox Vaccine - Vaccinia scars were associated with better survival for adults in Guinea-Bissau

Streptococcal Vaccine - Attitudes toward group B Streptococcus vaccination during pregnancy were explored