Virus Weekly articles from September 2000

Virus Weekly archives from September 2000

Viral DNA Detected in Bile Suggests Oral-Fecal Transmission Mode.(TT virus )
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- The fact that TT virus (TTV) DNA can be detected in excreted bile as well as serum suggests an oral-fecal route of transmission in some of those patients, scientists at Mie University School of Medicine in Japan...

Ganciclovir-Resistant CMV a Risk for Transplant Patients.(cytomegalovirus )
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus (CMV) is an important cause of illness among certain types of transplant recipients who have had prolonged exposure to ganciclovir, the main drug used for preventing and...

Viral Infections Both Trigger and Help Immunize Children Against Asthma.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Additional study and research needs to be completed to determine whether early exposure to environmental factors may indeed help children from developing asthma later on in life, reports the American Lung...

Pig-to-Human Transplants Questioned.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Mice that got experimental transplants of pig cells became infected with a pig virus, providing new evidence about the possible risks of transplanting animal tissue into people, researchers report. The mice...

Virus DNA Detected in Transplanted Patients is Clinically Prognostic.(Epstein-Barr virus )
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Detection of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA in the sera of transplanted patients is useful for clinical follow-up of patients who may be at risk of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD), researchers in...

Nucleoside Analogue Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors Contribute to Fat Wasting.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) therapy contributes to subcutaneous fat wasting in HIV patients, according to researchers in Australia. "Progressive subcutaneous fat wasting, fat...

Toxicity from Ritonavir Overdose Similar to Side Effects.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- An accidental overdose of Ritonavir (RTV) in an HIV infected patient showed that toxicity effects were similar to chronic side effects and manageable without interventional therapy. "The number of drugs used...

Development of New Reagents to Test for HCV Could be Beneficial to Blood Banks.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Blood donors in Egypt are reportedly infected with hepatitis C virus at a rate of 24%. Scientists in Egypt report that this relatively high rate may be due to cross-reactivity occurring in the assays used to test...

Study Shows Possible Cancer Link Between Virus and Fiber.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- A possible cancer-causing link has been found between asbestos fibers and a monkey virus that infects some people in the United States. Loyola University Medical Center researchers published the finding in the...

Russian Study Examines Serum and Saliva in Hospital Patients with Hepatitis B.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- A very high hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection rate detected in men admitted to a hospital in Russia may have been caused by non-parenteral routes of transmission, according to researchers at the Russian Academy of...

HIV-1 Specific Immune Responses Generated by Vaccine and Booster.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5-(NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in the United States have evaluated immune responses in HIV-1 seronegative volunteers immunized with a recombinant canarypox and gp120 prime-boost HIV-1 vaccine. University of Alabama researcher S....

Venezuelan Cohort Suggests Viral Transmission through Natural Mechanisms.(hepatitis G virus )
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- A collaborative study performed by researchers in Venezuela suggests that the population of that country may transmit hepatitis G/GBV-C hepatitis through natural mechanisms such as mother to infant transmission or...

HPV DNA Testing Service Extended to ASCUS Liquid Cytology Results.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Digene Corp. (DIGE), Gaithersburg, Maryland, announced that Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings (LabCorp) (LH) is extending its present human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing service to reflex testing on specimens...

Orphan Drug Designation Received for Oral Interferon-alpha Therapy in HIV Patients.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Amarillo Biosciences, Inc. (AMAR), Amarillo, Texas, announced that its proprietary orally-administered interferon-alpha has been granted orphan drug designation as a treatment of papillomavirus warts in the oral...

HTLV-II Discovery Might Shed Light on Behavior of HIV.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists in Brazil report they are studying a case of a rare brain disorder caused by human T-lymphotropic virus II (HTLV-II), a retrovirus closely related to HLV, which could lead to a better understanding of...

Human Parainfluenza Virus Type 3 Used to Make Vaccine.(measles )
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- A mucosal vaccine has been developed to immunize infants against measles and human parainfluenza virus. "Recombinant human parainfluenza virus type 3 (PIV3) was used as a vector to express the major protective...

Researchers Discover Why HIV Targets the Gut.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- University of California, Los Angeles, AIDS Institute researchers have solved a piece of the mystery why the AIDS virus targets the gut, explaining why unprotected oral and anal sex with an infected partner holds...

Researchers Say Shots Often Overused.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Rabies shots are often ovemsed in treating people bitten by animals, researchers report. About 40,000 shots are given annually in the United States, and a recent study suggests they may be unnecessary in as many...

Booster Doses of Hepatitis A Vaccine Effective Even When Given 56 Months Apart.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Switzerland have shown that two doses of a virosome-formulated hepatitis A virus (HAV) vaccine were still effective even if the doses were administered 18 to 56 months apart. "In order to confer...

Small Molecules Used to Block Proteins in HIV.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Purdue University scientists are using small molecules to bring down the molecular giants responsible for viral replication in AIDS. The new approach blocks the interaction of two identical proteins that make...

WHO Reports Epidemic Widening in Liberia.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- A yellow fever epidemic is gathering pace in Liberia, with at least 79 suspected cases now detected, the World Health Organization said August 29, 2000. "As we suspected... the epidemic is spreading,"...

Intraocular Sustained-Release Ganciclovir Implant Safe and Effective.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Brazil reported that intraocular sustained-relase ganciclovir (GCV) implants are safe and therapeutically effective against cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis in AIDS patients. Implants were...

HIV Infection May Affect Bone Mineral Density in Children.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- HIV infection and/or antiretroviral therapy may affect bone mineral density (BMD) in children, researchers in Italy suggested. "As HIV has effects on nutritional status, producing malnutrition wasting and...

New Early Detection Hepatitis C Test Launched.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- An in vitro diagnostic assay, ORTHO Antibody to HCV Core Antigen ELISA Test System, is now commercially available in countries outside of the United States. This is the first test to be commercialized for...

Water Alone Prevents Transfer of Hepatitis A to Lettuce in Canadian Study.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Carriers of the hepatitis A virus can reduce the presence of this virus on their hands by doing something as simple as rinsing their hands with water, according to a study carried out in Canada by government...

Topical Interferon Treatment Studied.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Viragen, Inc. (VRA), Plantation, Florida, announced that it has agreed to supply Omniferon to Zonagen, Inc. (ZONA) (ZNG) for the purpose of studying a topically applied enhanced formulation of natural alpha...

Modified T Cells in HIV Patients Survive Long-Term in vivo.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- According to a study from the United States, genetically modified T cells were capable of long-term survival in patients with HIV infection. "To study HIV specific cellular immunity in vivo, we...

Approval Advised to Conduct Australian Treatment Trial.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Virax Holdings Limited (VHL), Melbourne, Australia, announced that Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has advised approval of the company's Clinical Trials Exemption (CTX) application to...

Terms Agreement Established for Prophylactic Vaccine.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Cantab Pharmaceuticals plc (CNTBY) (CTB), Cambridge, United Kingdom, announced that it has reached final agreement with Glaxo Wellcome plc on the terms for the return to Cantab of the rights to the DISC HSV...

WHO: Nearly Half of Deaths in Developing Countries Due to Communicable Disease.(Statistical Data Included)
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Close to half the deaths in developing countries are due to infectious diseases, of which AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria are the biggest killers, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). These...

CDC Study Reports Genetic Variation in Lassa Virus Strains.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Genetic diversity prevails in Lassa virus strains and these variations probably came about as a function of geography instead of time, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers have...

Scientists Explore Two-year Lamivudine Therapy for Hepatitis B.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Lamivudine is a proven treatment for some patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV). However, the effects of taking this therapy longer than a year have not been thoroughly explored, according to researchers. ...

Daily Interferon Alfacon-1 and Ribavirin Treatment Safe for Patients.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Patients infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be treated with interferon alfacon-1 (Infergen, Amgen) on an accelerated schedule and also take the antiviral drug ribavirin without compromising safety,...

Substitutions in Internal Ribosome Entry Site of Hepatitis C Affect Replication.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers at the University of Texas have added to the body of knowledge that suggests nucleotide substitutions on the internal ribosome entry site (IRES) of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) can enhance viral...

Israeli Man Dies of Virus-Related Complications.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- An 84-year-old man in Jerusalem, Israel, died the week of August 27, 2000, of complications from the West Nile virus, health officials said. This is the same virus that hit New York this summer and last....

Mosquito Complaints, Worries Over Disease Higher in North Carolina.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- A bad mosquito season in North Carolina had people slapping their arms and legs more than usual in August and environmental officials working to reduce bites and the threat of disease. "Our mosquitoes get...

WHO Reports Epidemic Widening in Liberia.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- A yellow fever epidemic is gathering pace in Liberia, with at least 79 suspected cases now detected, the World Health Organization said August 29, 2000. "As we suspected... the epidemic is spreading," WHO...

Clinical Trials of Immunization Against Clade A HIV-1 Virus Begin.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers began clinical trials August 31, 2000, with a vaccine targeted at an African strain of AIDS. The vaccine is the first specifically designed to combat the Clade A HIV-1 virus, the most...

Research Leads to Guidelines on How To Treat Patients with HCV and HIV.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- The more than 300,000 Americans infected with the potentially deadly combination of HIV and hepatitis C. HCV has become a leading cause of death in HIV patients, but researchers unveiled new solutions...

New Compound is Effective Against RSV in Lab Experiments.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection can be an unpleasant nuisance in adults; however, in infants and young children, this virus can cause significant disease and can even be deadly. Researchers at...

FDA Authorizes Protocol in Multi-Drug Resistant Disease.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. (HEB; HEBws), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorization to conduct an advanced multi-center clinical study in drug-resistant...

Adenine Induces Selective Apoptosis of HIV Infected Cells in vitro.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Japan have evaluated adenine as an anti-HIV drug in vitro. "A novel strategy for anti-HIV therapy is the clearance of the residual infected cells from the body," stated K. Hirasawa and...

Research Paves the Way for Faster, Better, Cheaper Probing Method.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers at Northwestern University, Illinois, have combined gold nanoparticles and DNA in a novel way to form tiny probes capable of DNA detection that is more accurate and less expensive than conventional...

Technology Allows Researchers to Match Hepatitis E Strains in 1983 Outbreak.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- The development of new technologies has enabled scientists at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to identify hepatitis E virus isolates from an outbreak in Namibia that had been stored since 1983. ...

Lentivirus Infection Induces Matrix Metalloproteinase Expression in Brain.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- According to researchers in Canada, lentivirus infection induces matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) expression in the brain. "Infection of the brain by lentiviruses, including human immunodeficiency virus...

Herpesvirus Vector Shows Promise in Research.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Two Harvard Medical School researchers working toward an HIV vaccine are yielding promising results using a novel viral vector known for its longevity, according to a study in the September 2000 Journal of...

Strategies Investigated to Combat HCV.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Hepatitis C is a growing concern to healthcare providers throughout the U.S. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) screens, tests, and treats more patients with hepatitis C than any other provider...

HspE7 Phase II Trial in Cervical Cancer Initiated.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- StressGen Biotechnologies Corp. (SSB), Victoria, British Columbia, announced that it has initiated patient treatment in its Phase II clinical trial to investigate HspE7. HspE7 is an immunotherapeutic used...

DNA-Based Flu Vaccine Raises Protective Immunity; Could be Model for Other Antiviral Vaccines.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists at the Vaccine Research Center of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, have successfully engineered and tested a single-dose, DNA-based influenza vaccine in mice that could serve as a template for...

Drug Therapy Agreements and Clinical Study Results Announced.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Biota Holdings Limited (BTA), Melbourne, Australia, announced that it has signed a Heads of Agreement granting Glaxo Wellcome rights to develop and market worldwide a new influenza drug based on inhibition of...

New HIV Model Shows Virus Doesn't Kill White Blood Cells; It "Homes" Them to Death.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- University of Michigan scientist Dr. Denise Kirschner has developed a new mathematical model that shows how HIV slowly destroys its victim's immune system by accelerating a normal process called homing, which...

Coinfection with Hepatitis C Does Not Worsen Liver Conditions.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- TT virus appears to be a stand-alone disease relative to influence on liver injury when hepatitis C virus infection is also present. That's what researchers at Yamagata University say as a result of a...

Bone Marrow Recipients Acquire Hepatitis B from Surface-Antigen-Positive Donors.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Patients who receive bone marrow transplants from patients who are hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) positive may suffer a variety of complications, especially if they are not HBsAg positive prior to...

Chickenpox Immunization Confirmed Effective in Adults.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- The chickenpox (varicella) vaccine is highly effective in protecting adults from serious disease, and immunization is recommended for all adults who have never had chickenpox, according to information...

U.S. Army Asked to Fight Potential Outbreak.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- In a sealed laboratory, scrub-suited U.S. Army scientists are probing the mysteries of mosquitoes that spread the West Nile virus, including one that could be especially adept at transmitting the sometimes...

Cesarean Section Reduces Hepatitis C Transmission to Neonates from Infected Mothers.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26- (NewsRx.com) -- New study findings suggest the transmission of the hepatitis C virus from mother to child occurs most frequently at delivery. Elective cesarean section was found to reduce transmission risk, and may be an...

Virus Evades Defense Mechanisms by Interfering with Interferon Synthesis.(measles virus)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Although measles is not a major threat in some parts of the world, it is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Scientists at the Scripps Clinic and Research Institute in La...

Epidemic Claims 16th Victim in El Salvador.(dengue fever)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Dengue fever has claimed the life of a three-year-old boy, the 16th victim of an epidemic that is being investigated by scientists in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The boy died in a San Salvador hospital. He had...

Partnership Yields First-Generation HPV Probe.(Ampersand Medical Corp.; Invirion Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Ampersand Medical Corp. (AMPM), Chicago, Illinois, announced that Invirion, Inc., Frankfort, Michigan, has delivered to its initial probe for human papillomavirus (HPV) detection. Ampersand in June 2000...

Vaccinators Target 1.4 Million Children in Attempt to Eradicate Disease in Somalia.(polio immunization program)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Somalia recorded the last known case of smallpox, and the 6,000 vaccinators who fanned out across the country on September 12, 2000, hope their beleaguered nation will not be the last to eradicate polio as well....

Acute Scrub-Typhus Infection Suppresses HIV-1.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scrub-typhus bacteria may have antiretroviral activity, propose researchers in the United States. "In HIV-1 infected individuals, viral load has been reported to rise transiently if an acute infection with...

FDA Approves Kaletra for HIV Infection.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26- (NewsRx.com) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on September 15, 2000, issued an accelerated approval for Kaletra, a protease inhibitor, for adults and children greater than six months of age with HIV. Kaletra is a...

Once-Daily HAART Regimen Data from Treatment-Naive Patients Presented.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26- (NewsRx.com) -- Triangle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (VIRS), Durham, North Carolina, announced that researchers from the Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le SIDA (ANRS) in France presented the one-year results of a pilot study of a...

Protease Inhibitor and Lipodystrophy Study Results Presented at ICAAC.(Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Bristol Myers Squibb announced presentation of study data on its once-daily protease inhibitor BMS-232632, [Zerit.sup.R], and on HIV associated lipodystrophy at the 40th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial...

Porphyrin Inactivation Has Potential Use Against Water and Bloodborne Pathogens.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Special compounds called porphyrins that are activated in the presence of ultraviolet (UV) light could potentially be used in membrane filters and liquid compounds to inactivate infectious microorganisms that live...

Infections Resistant to Interferon Alpha-2b Might Respond to High-Dose Interferon Alfacon-1.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- High-dose interferon alfacon-1 (Infergen, Amgen) given for 24 weeks in a recent study often cleared the hepatitis C virus (HCV) from the blood of infected patients for whom a conventional interferon-based therapy...

Vaccine May Protect Against Herpes - But Only in Women.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers have made the first vaccine that protects against genital herpes. But there is a major catch: it works only in women and only if they have never had cold sores. The findings, reported on...

Study Finds Booster Plus Oral Vaccine is Best Protection.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Giving a booster shot in addition to the oral polio vaccine is the best way to ensure that babies in Third World countries are protected from the virus, a study has found. In industrialized countries, three...

Lamivudine Treatment is Effective in Reversing Hepatic Decompensation.(in hepatitis B)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- The results of a study conducted by researchers at the University of California at San Francisco indicate that lamivudine can effectively reverse hepatic decompensation in patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV). ...

Ribozyme Safety and Pharmacokinetics Trial Completed.(Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 -- (NewsRx.com) -- Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (RPI) (RZYM), Boulder, Colorado, and Eli Lilly and Co. (LLY), Indianapolis, Indiana, announced the successful completion of a safety and pharmacokinetic study of LY466700, the...

In utero DNA Vaccine Delivery Induces Fetal Protective Immunity in Animal Model.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Members of the Veterinary Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) reported that fetal immunization by a DNA vaccine delivered into the amniotic fluid may be a way of reducing vertical transmission of infectious...

Hepatitis D Large Delta Antigen is Permissive for Antigenomic Replication.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- For the first time, researchers at the University of Southern California have been able to give details about why the large form hepatitis delta antigen (L-HDAg), which is responsible for inhibiting viral...

Outbreak Continues in Israel.(West Nile fever)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 -- (NewsRx.com) -- Cases of West Nile Fever continue to be reported in Israel, according to Agence France-Presse. On September 14, 2000, the newswire said Israel public radio had reported hospitalization of 16 more people due to...

Epidemic Claims 16th Victim in El Salvador.(dengue fever)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Dengue fever has claimed the life of a three-year-old boy, the 16th victim of an epidemic that is being investigated by scientists in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The boy died in a San Salvador hospital. He...

Outbreak Continues in Israel.(West Nile fever)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Cases of West Nile Fever continue to be reported in Israel, according to Agence France-Presse. On September 14, 2000, the newswire said Israel public radio had reported hospitalization of 16 more people...

[2] Cesarean Section Reduces Hepatitis C Transmission to Neonates from Infected Mothers.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- New study findings suggest the transmission of the hepatitis C virus from mother to child occurs most frequently at delivery. Elective cesarean section was found to reduce transmission risk, and may be an...

[2] Virus Evades Defense Mechanisms by Interfering with Interferon Synthesis.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Although measles is not a major threat in some parts of the world, it is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Scientists at the Scripps Clinic and Research Institute in...

[1] Partnership Yields First-Generation HPV Probe.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Ampersand Medical Corp. (AMPM), Chicago, Illinois, announced that Invirion, Inc., Frankfort, Michigan, has delivered to its initial probe for human papillomavirus (HPV) detection. Ampersand in June 2000...

[2] Vaccinators Target 1.4 Million Children in Attempt to Eradicate Disease in Somalia.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Somalia recorded the last known case of smallpox, and the 6,000 vaccinators who fanned out across the country on September 12, 2000, hope their beleaguered nation will not be the last to eradicate polio as...

[2] Acute Scrub-Typhus Infection Suppresses HIV-1.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scrub-typhus bacteria may have antiretroviral activity, propose researchers in the United States. "In HIV-1 infected individuals, viral load has been reported to rise transiently if an acute infection...

FDA Approves Kaletra for HIV Infection.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on September 15, 2000, issued an accelerated approval for Kaletra, a protease inhibitor, for adults and children greater than six months of age with HIV. ...

[2] Once-Daily HAART Regimen Data from Treatment-Naive Patients Presented.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Triangle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (VIRS), Durham, North Carolina, announced that researchers from the Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le SIDA (ANRS) in France presented the one-year results of a pilot study of...

[2] Protease Inhibitor and Lipodystrophy Study Results Presented at ICAAC.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Bristol Myers Squibb announced presentation of study data on its once-daily protease inhibitor BMS-232632, Zerit(R), and on HIV associated lipodystrophy at the 40th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial...

[2] Porphyrin Inactivation Has Potential Use Against Water and Bloodborne Pathogens.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Special compounds called porphyrins that are activated in the presence of ultraviolet (UV) light could potentially be used in membrane filters and liquid compounds to inactivate infectious microorganisms that...