Virus Weekly articles from August 2000

Virus Weekly archives from August 2000

Scientists Describe Enterovirus 71 Outbreak in Children in Taiwan.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- The clinical manifestations of an enterovirus 71 (EV71) outbreak among children in Taiwan was described in a recent edition of the Journal of Clinical Virology by medical investigators at the National Cheng...

Novel Virus Localizes in the Liver of Patients with Chronic Hepatitis.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- New investigation of the TT virus (TTV) has shown that it localizes primarily in the hepatocytes of patients with chronic hepatitis, according to a study reported in Hepatology Research. Medical...

Protease Inhibitor Use Associated with Metabolic Disorders.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- The use of protease inhibitors (PI) is associated with the development of hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and lipodystrophy in HIV infected patients, researchers have verified. "Although HIV related...

Model to Predict Ganciclovir Resistance is Developed.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers have developed a model that can successfully predict whether or not resistance to ganciclovir will develop in patients being treated for cytomegalovirus (CMV). This was accomplished by using...

Gene Therapy Via Introns Potentially Could Interfere with HIV Replication.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- Group II introns, mobile RNAs that can insert themselves into targeted areas on double-stranded DNA, could be "retargeted" to insert into virtually any DNA strand, say the authors of a new study. This...

Researchers Document Rare Cases of West Nile Virus.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- Two unique cases of West Nile virus infection highlight the need for greater vigilance regarding the mosquito-borne virus. Both West Nile virus cases reported in the American Academy of Neurology's July...

Mitochondrial Disease Can be Byproduct of Zidovudine During Pregnancy.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- Zidovudine (ZDV) treatment during pregnancy of HIV infected women may damage fetal mitochondria, researchers in Italy reported. "Mitochondrial disease is a possible side effect of ZDV-treated HIV positive...

Potent Results Seen with Sustiva and ABT-378/r Combination.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- Study results suggest that anti-HIV drug Sustiva (efavirenz), a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), and the protease inhibitor ABT-378/ritonavir are a potent HIV combination treatment when...

Study Shows Antiretroviral Treatment Continues to Improve Survival.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- A study from the San Francisco Department of Public Health and University of California, San Francisco, found that treatment with potent antiretroviral therapy continues to significantly improve how long AIDS...

Switching from Protease Inhibitors Maintains Viral Load Suppression.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- Data presented during the 13th International AIDS Conference, held in Durban, South Africa, demonstrated that anti-HIV drug Sustiva (efavirenz), a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), may...

Hepatitis C Mortality and Complication Rates in New York Determined.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- New York State Department of Health epidemiologists recently reviewed and compiled the mortality and complication rates for hospital patients with hepatitis C (HepC) virus in Upstate New York. A report of...

Jail-Based Surveillance Screening Useful in Monitoring STD Epidemics.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- A study by the San Francisco, California, Department of Public Health, conducted at the San Francisco County Jail, has found that anonymous HIV screening of jail inmates offers an opportunity to track the...

Antivirogram Test Proves Effective for Less-Prevalent HIV Strains.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- Data presented at the 13th International Conference on AIDS, held in Durban, South Africa, July 9-14, 2000, from Virco's Antivirogram resistance test indicate that a second generation of HIV drugs may be...

Encouraging Clinical Results for HIV Inhibitor Announced.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (PGNX), Tarrytown, New York, announced the publication of a study describing the initial clinical trial of its PRO 542, a clinically advanced HIV inhibitor. In the study, a...

European CPMP Gives Positive Opinion on Triple Combination Therapy.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- BioChem Pharma Inc. (BCHE; BCH), Laval, Quebec, announced that the European Union's Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products (CPMP) has recommended the approval of Trizivir, Glaxo Wellcome's triple...

Findings Reveal Public Concern.(about the need for safer blood transfusions)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- Results from two new surveys announced by The Coalition for Transfusion Safety, a consortium dedicated to elevating awareness of the need for safer blood transfusions, uncover significant concerns about the...

New Mexico Woman is Seventh Case This Year.(hantavirus infection outbreak)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- A McKinley County, New Mexico, woman has been diagnosed with hantavirus, bringing New Mexico's total to seven cases this year, state health officials said. The 38-year-old woman was in critical condition...

Human Cellular Genes Required for Hepatitis C Virus Protein Synthesis are Identified.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- Immusol, Inc., San Diego, California, announced that it has used its proprietary inverse genomics technology to discover two unique potential drug target genes for hepatitis C. The two human cellular...

New York Area Spraying to Kill Virus-Carrying Mosquitoes.(West Nile Virus)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- Health officials in New York City mobilized insecticide-spraying trucks on July 18, 2000, after an encephalitis virus that killed seven people last year turned up again in mosquitoes and birds across the New...

Gene Therapy Via Introns Potentially Could Interfere with HIV Replication.
August 1, 2000... 2000 AUG 1 - (NewsRx.com) -- Group II introns, mobile RNAs that can insert themselves into targeted areas on double-stranded DNA, could be "retargeted" to insert into virtually any DNA strand, say the authors of a new study. This could...

Infections Continued to Flourish in the Middle of West Nile Virus Outbreak.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Last summer, West Nile Virus showed up for the first time in the Western Hemisphere in New York City. Researchers still don't know how it reached the shores of the United States. However, in the middle of...

Antiviral Drug Found Effective Against Encephalitis-Causing Virus.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- A drug currently used to fight other viral diseases also may be effective against the West Nile virus that caused the outbreak of encephalitis in New York last summer, a University of California, Irvine,...

Amprenavir Useful in Initial and Salvage Treatment.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- The new protease inhibitor (PI) Amprenavir , which recently received marketing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, can be used in both initial and salvage combination therapies. ...

Diabetes Drug May Be Useful in Treating AIDS-Related Syndrome.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- A pilot study using metformin, a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, indicates that the medication may be useful in treating HIV lipodsytrophy, a disorder of fat metabolism that occurs in people with AIDS,...

Heteroduplex Mobility Analysis Can Identify Mixed Virus and Mixed-Strain Samples.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- As the international community turns its attention to the upcoming Olympics in Sydney, Australia, laboratory researchers at the Prince of Wales Hospital in that same city have developed a novel technique that...

Scientists Link Protein to Hemorrhaging.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified a part of the Ebola virus that likely is responsible for the massive internal bleeding leading to most of those deaths. Ebola...

New Nipah Virus Shows Similarities to Hendra Virus.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Preliminary investigation of the newly identified Nipah virus has shown that it shares many characteristics with Hendra virus, but it is a separate and distinct virus, according to U.S. Centers for Disease...

Hepatitis C Rate in Hospitalized Veterans Affairs Patients High.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- The rate of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in patients hospitalized at US Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities may be higher than previously believed, scientists at the Atlanta VA Medical Center in Atlanta,...

Prevalence of New GB Virus-C/Hepatitis G Virus Studied in Taiwanese Population.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- An epidemiological study of GB virus-C/hepatitis G virus (HGV) in a small village in Taiwan was recently reported in the journal Liver. According to the report, low educational attainment was a significant...

Study Suggests Blacks with Hepatitis C Less Likely to Become Free of Virus.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Studies have shown that many hepatitis C patients recover from the liver-threatening disease, but new research suggests black people are much less likely to become free of the virus than whites. A study by...

Complement Activation is Higher in Patients with Severe Nephropathia Epidemica.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Patients who suffer from Puumala hantavirus-associated nephropathia epidemica (NE) have clinical outcomes that are associated with the complement activation system, say researchers in Finland at the University...

Autohemotherapy Resulted in Hepatitis B Infection Outbreak.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- A study in the July 29, 2000, issue of The Lancet emphasizes the continuing risk of transmission of bloodborne viruses in health care settings where skin-piercing procedures are used. In more developed...

Activists Call for Fast Track Development of Reticulose.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- With the close of the 13th International AIDS Conference, a coalition of AIDS treatment activists are demanding better access to Reticulose, a lipoprotein-nucleic acid complex manufactured by Advanced Viral...

Metabolic Abnormalities Caused by Protease Inhibitors.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Protease inhibitor (PI) use can alter the lipid profile of HIV patients, and result in central obesity, researchers in Spain report. "The use of PI in HIV infected patients has been associated with a...

Chemokine Receptor Antagonists Move to Phase II Trials.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Research from Belgium shows that chemokine receptor antagonists are promising anti-HIV agents. "The chemokine receptors CXCR4 and CCR5 are used as coreceptors by the T-tropic X4 and M-tropic R5 HIV-1...

Immune-Based Ampligen Therapy Viewed as Next Hope for HIV Antiretroviral Resistance.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- The close of the 13th World AIDS Conference has led to an increased emphasis in the pursuit of effective methods of treating drug-resistant HIV. "The 13th World AIDS Conference has left us with definitive...

Hepatitis A Disease Rate Remains High Among Populations in Atlanta, Georgia.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- In Atlanta, Georgia, the site for this year's major conference on emerging infectious diseases, a subset of the metropolitan population continues to have high hepatitis A virus infection rates, despite...

Novel Therapy Uses Ribozymes and Stem Cells.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- A novel therapy for the treatment of HIV infection is being developed that incorporates ribozymes and stem cells. Seeking to genetically alter hematopoietic stem cells with anti-HIV catalytic RNAs...

Positive Clinical Data Presented for HspE7 Heat Shock Protein Fusion.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- StressGen Biotechnologies (SSB:TSE) announced that preliminary Phase II data presented demonstrate activity of HspE7, an immunotherapeutic in the treatment of human papillomavirus-related anal dysplasia. ...

South Carolina is Site for Hepatitis C Exposure Risk Survey.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- One of the few studies to conduct an analysis of source patient seroprevalence for hepatitis C virus was reported recently at the CDC 2000 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases that was held...

Ho Discusses Problem of Elusive HIV/AIDS Cure at Major Conference.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Laboratory studies in the past five years have armed researchers and clinicians with significant tools in the development of therapies to treat HIV affected individuals. Dr. David Ho, scientific director...

Sharp Drops in Perinatally-Acquired HIV Reported in U.S.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Comprehensive prevention and treatment efforts in the United States have brought sharp drops in mother-to-child (perinatal) transmission of HIV, according to new data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease...

Success Reported in Thailand, But Other Developing Countries Lag Behind.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- At the XIII International AIDS Conference held in Durban, South Africa, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on the success of one of the first large-scale perinatal prevention...

Emerging Field Will Lead to Individualized Drug Therapy and Result in Healthcare Savings.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Why do some patients respond to some drugs and not to others? Which patients will have minimal or even no toxic effects from a given drug? Why do some individuals require higher or lower doses for optimum...

Study Indicates HPV Test Significantly More Effective for Cancer Screening.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Digene Corp. (DIGE) announced that preliminary results of the largest German primary cervical cancer screening trial to date confirm that the Digene Hybrid Capture 2 HPV Test was significantly more effective...

FDA Approves Docosanol to Treat Cold Sores.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Avanir Pharmaceuticals (AVN), San Diego, California, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted full marketing approval for docosanol 10% cream. The cream is a topical treatment...

Collaboration Will Focus on Developing Antiviral Agents.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Arrow Therapeutics Ltd., London, United Kingdom, has announced its first research and development collaboration with Triangle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (VIRS). The deal is a collaborative agreement to discover...

Milestone Received in Anti-Hepatitis C Ribozyme Collaboration.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (RPI) (RZYM), Boulder, Colorado, reported the receipt of a $1 million milestone payment from partner Eli Lilly and Company as a result of meeting a clinical development milestone...

Collaboration Will Focus on Developing Antiviral Agents.
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8- (NewsRx.com) -- Arrow Therapeutics Ltd., London, United Kingdom, has announced its first research and development collaboration with Triangle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (VIRS). The deal is a collaborative agreement to discover and...

Milestone Received in Anti-Hepatitis C Ribozyme Collaboration.
August 8, 2000... 2000 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com) -- Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (RPI) (RZYM), Boulder, Colorado, reported the receipt of a $1 million milestone payment from partner Eli Lilly and Company as a result of meeting a clinical development milestone with...

Docosanol Might Enhance Activity of Current Antiviral Agents.
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- Avanir Pharmaceuticals (AVN), San Diego, California, has been awarded a grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) under its Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to evaluate...

Disease Confirmed in Infected Bird in Massachusetts.(West Nile virus)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) announced July 28, 2000, that West Nile virus (WNV) has been confirmed by the State Laboratory Institute in an adult dead crow found July 22 in a wooded...

WHO Reports "Substantial Progress" Toward Eradication in Europe.(World Health Organization)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- In 1988, the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) resolved to eradicate polio globally by 2000. Substantial progress has been made toward this goal in the 51-member states of the...

Studies Focus on Treatment Efficacies in Women.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies revealed continued racial and gender disparities in access to the most effective therapies, and examined the contributing role stress may play in poor...

Viral Respiratory Tract Infections are Associated with Near-Fatal Asthma.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Singapore clarified that, as in acute asthma, viral respiratory tract infections are associated with exacerbation of near-fatal asthma. More specifically, they reported human rhinovirus as...

Certain Chemokines May Be Natural Antivirals.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- A researcher in Italy has suggested that certain chemokines may be useful as antiviral agents against HIV infection. "The unexpected collision between the fields of chemokines and HIV has opened new...

Indinavir Penetration Enhanced After Addition of Low-Dose Ritonavir.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- The penetration of indinavir into the central nervous system and into the male genital tract is enhanced after low-dose ritonavir is added to the drug cocktail, researchers in The Netherlands report. ...

Lamivudine Resistance Explored in HBV and HIV-1 Coinfected Patients.
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- Data from a study in England suggest that drug resistance to lamivudine monotherapy is a likely occurrence in hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HIV-1 coinfected patients. "Lamivudine has potent activity against...

Studies Highlight Shortcomings of HIV Treatments.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- New studies from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlight the growing shortcomings of existing HIV treatment regimens. The studies were discussed July 11, 2000, at a press...

Experimental Anti-Cancer Drug Also Has Anti-HIV Properties.(flavopiridol)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- The results of a study led by a University of Iowa researcher suggest that a drug already undergoing stage I and II clinical trials as a cancer treatment may also have potential as an anti-HIV therapy. ...

HIV Coinfection Does Not Affect Interferon Treatment for Hepatitis C.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- Clinical data from a French multicenter trial show that HIV coinfection does not adversely affect antiviral therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. "The aim of this prospective study was to compare...

People with HIV Needed for Interleukin-2 Study.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota, is searching for people with HIV who are willing to try an experimental treatment using interleukin-2. Interleukin-2 is a substance that has been...

Adjuvants Help Induce Mucosal Antibody Immune Responses.(interleukin-12 and cholera toxin subunit B)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- The combination of interleukin (IL)-12 and cholera toxin subunit B (CTB) help stimulate mucosal antibody responses to a HIV-1 gp120 subunit vaccine, a new study has found. "Envelope glycoprotein gp120 is...

First Responders at Low-Risk for Hepatitis C Virus Infection.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- Study results should reassure firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and paramedics that they are at low risk for hepatitis C infection (HCV) as a result of needlestick injury or other exposure to...

Famciclovir Dosage for Hepatitis B Patients Optimized.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- Medical investigators in France have determined the optimal dosage for using famciclovir to treat chronic hepatitis B. The results of their drug study were published in the Journal of Hepatology. ...

Study Will Look at Affects of Long-Term Antiviral Therapy in Hepatitis C Patients.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- The University of Michigan Health System is one of a select group of clinical centers launching a new study for patients with chronic hepatitis C. The study - the longest and largest ever for hepatitis C -...

Could Mosquitoes Be a Vector for Hepatitis C Virus?(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- It is a generally-held assumption that mosquitoes cannot transmit some types of viruses, including hepatitis virus. Researchers in France, however, have been able to grow hepatitis C virus (HCV) in mosquito...

Hepatitis A Infection Spread Within Family Despite Child's Vaccination.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Germany recently described a case in which the family of a young girl who had been vaccinated against the hepatitis A virus subsequently became infected. In a letter to the New England...

Edible Vaccine Shows Promise Fighting Virus in Lab Tests.(edible vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus infection)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- A respiratory virus that strikes hardest at young children and the elderly in nursing homes has lost a preliminary bout with a two-fisted enemy - genetically modified cherry tomatoes containing an edible...

Large Outbreak in Romania Involved Multiple Types of Enteroviruses.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a large outbreak of viral meningitis in Romania was caused by three different types of enteroviruses. This is unusual in that it is the...

Fear of West Nile Virus Grips Northeast U.S.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- Worried by instances of the potentially fatal West Nile virus, some people in the Northeast are asking health officials to test everything from a dead bat in a toilet to birds that were shot to death or...

WHO Reports "Substantial Progress" Toward Eradication in Europe.(polio )
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- In 1988, the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) resolved to eradicate polio globally by 2000. Substantial progress has been made toward this goal in the 51-member states of the...

Large Outbreak in Romania Involved Multiple Types of Enteroviruses.
August 15, 2000... 2000 AUG 15- (NewsRx.com) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a large outbreak of viral meningitis in Romania was caused by three different types of enteroviruses. This is unusual in that it is the first...

Circulating Genes in Hong Kong Poultry are Similar to Those in 1997 Outbreak.
August 29, 2000... 2000 AUG 29 - (NewsRx.com) -- Fowl in Hong Kong continue to carry avian influenza viruses that have genetic similarities to the virus that caused the well-known human and chicken virus outbreak in 1997, report U.S. Department of Agriculture...

Zinc Lozenges Reduce Symptoms, Length of Rhinovirus Infection.
August 29, 2000... 2000 AUG 29 - (NewsRx.com) -- In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, zinc acetate lozenges reduced the duration and symptoms of colds. The study results were published in the August 15, 2000, issue of the Annals of...

Diagnostic Tests Compared for Identifying Serological Responses.
August 29, 2000... 2000 AUG 29 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in The Netherlands have found that different assays have different uses in determining serological responses to herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2). "Detection of HSV-2-specific antibodies by a...

'Decoy' Cells Attract, Disarm Viruses Before Infection Occurs.
August 29, 2000... 2000 AUG 29 - (NewsRx.com) -- Decoy cells that act like "molecular flypaper" can attract and disarm viruses that cause disease, researchers reported at the 220th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, held August 19-24, 2000, in...

Immunomodulatory Therapy Helps Manage Opportunistic Infections in HIV Patients.
August 29, 2000... 2000 AUG 29 - (NewsRx.com) -- Immunomodulatory agents help manage viral infections in HIV infected patients, according to a new study. "HIV causes disease by infecting lymphocytes and progressively destroying critical regulatory and...

Association of Protease Inhibitors with Hyperglycemia, Hyperlipidemia, and Lipodystrophy Confirmed.
August 29, 2000... 2000 AUG 29 - (NewsRx.com) -- Although researchers in the United States have been able to confirm that protease inhibitors (PI) cause hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and lipodystrophy in HIV infected patients who take these antivirals, they...

Continued Development of Coactinon Announced.
August 29, 2000... 2000 AUG 29 - (NewsRx.com) -- Triangle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (VIRS), Durham, North Carolina, announced its continued development of Coactinon in support of an NDA [New Drug Application] filing. Coactinon is a non-nucleoside reverse...

HAART Positively Impacts HIV Patients with Cardiac Involvement.
August 29, 2000... 2000 AUG 29 - (NewsRx.com) -- Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) reduces the risk of cardiac complications in HIV patients, a new study shows. "Cardiac involvement is frequently observed in HIV infected patients, especially in...

Risk of Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases Reduced in Croatia.
August 29, 2000... 2000 AUG 29 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Croatia have determined that the risk of being infected with a virus from a blood transfusion in that country has been reduced significantly. In evaluating the risk, D. Grgicevic and colleagues,...

Hepatitis C is More Severe in HIV Infected Drug Users.
August 29, 2000... 2000 AUG 29 - (NewsRx.com) -- According to a study from Italy, infections resulting from hepatitis C virus are more severe in drug abusers coinfected with HIV "Drug users with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are frequently...

Agreement Signed to Evaluate Pressure Cycling Technology.
August 29, 2000... 2000 AUG 29 - (NewsRx.com) -- Boston Biomedica, Inc. (BBI), West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, announced the signing of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (NIHCC) to...