TB & Outbreaks Week articles from April 2001

TB & Outbreaks Week archives from April 2001

Short-Course, Two-Drug Treatment For Latent TB In High-Risk Inmates Leads To Higher Completion Rates.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new two-month, two-drug treatment for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) led to a marked increase in completion rates for the regimen in a high-risk jail population who had a positive tuberculin...

Shwartzman Reaction Allows 'Human-Like' TB Course In Mice.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - By inducing intragranulomatous necrosis in mice with tuberculosis, researchers have developed a more realistic animal model for testing TB therapies. ...

Risk Of Nosocomial Transmission Justifies Immunization Of Health Care Workers.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Hospital workers in the tropics should be vaccinated against chickenpox for their own safety and to avoid transmitting it to patients, say researchers...

Health Experts Issue Guidelines For Antibiotic Use By Adults With Upper Respiratory Infections.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Increasingly concerned about the health threats from excessive antibiotic use, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened a panel of national health experts to develop best...

Cord Factor Test Offers Valuable Diagnostic Aid For Ocular TB.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The presence of antibodies to a purified cell wall component of tubercule baccili can be used to confirm a diagnosis of ocular tuberculosis, according to a...

First Year Of Elimination Program Completed In Haiti.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Parasitic Diseases (DPD), Notre Dame University, and Ste. Croix Hospital in Leogane, Haiti, have finished the first year of a...

Aerosol Delivery Of Vaccine May Be Ideal For Developing Countries.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A powder formulation of measles vaccine would be a practical alternative to injectable vaccine in developing countries. Measles still carries a high...

Screening For Non-Immigrant Visitors To U.S. Not Feasible.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Requiring proof of tuberculosis screening before entering the United States would be an unwise diversion of TB resources to a population that represents a...

Treatment With Killed Mycobacterium vaccae Improves Atopic Dermatitis.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Children with atopic dermatitis experienced significant improvement in symptoms after treatment with killed Mycobacterium vaccae. Because rates of...

Thailand: Epidemic Has Slowed, But AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections Have Increased.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health have found that while Thailand has mounted an effective program for preventing the sexual transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus...

European Union Grants Ribavirin Orphan-Drug Status Designation.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ICN), announced March 16, 2001, that the European Commission has granted Orphan Drug Status designation in the European Union to intravenous ribavirin (Virazole) 100 mg/ml...

DTPa/Hib Single Injection Safer Than DTPw Plus Hib Given Separately.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A single injection of diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTPa) and Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate (Hib) vaccine causes fewer local and...

T-Cell Release Of Granulysin Boosts Immune Defense.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - T cells that are able to release the antimicrobial protein granulysin are vital to host defense against infection, say researchers at the University of...

Double Flu Vaccine Yields Better Antibody Response In Frail Elderly.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Frail elderly people may produce higher antibodies against flu if they get a double dose or booster dose of vaccine, but that response does not necessarily...

Is Immunization Economically Practical?
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Vaccination against Lyme disease is safe and effective. The question is, can it be justified in economic terms? The answer appears to be yes - if an...

Artesunate Influences Kidney Clearance.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The anti-malaria drug sodium artesunate causes decreased clearance of inulin and increased urinary output of sodium, chloride, potassium, and nitric oxide...

Genetically-Engineered Vaccine In Development.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New Vision wire service reported that the aim of a new partnership between a private research laboratory in Uganda and Dutch and Ghanaian institutions is to develop a vaccine against malaria using...

Outbreak In Muramvya Province Of Kenya Is Abating.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to the UN Integrated Regional Information Network, the outbreak of malaria in the western province of Muramvya, Kenya, is abating, local health officials said March 21, 2001. The...

Burkina Faso Pleads For Millions Of Doses Of Vaccine.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An appeal on March 17, 2001, for 7.5 million doses of vaccine to halt the rapid spread of meningitis in Burkina Faso has drawn an immediate pledge of help from the World Health Organization (WHO),...

Antibiotics May Do More Harm Than Good In Areas Of High Pneumococci Prevalence.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Antibiotics for acute otitis media may actually cause superinfection with previously existing resistant pneumococci, suggest researchers working in Israel....

Mandatory Vaccination Unwarranted In Netherlands Despite Outbreaks.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Global eradication of poliomyelitis is the only reasonable way to prevent outbreaks among religious groups who refuse the polio vaccine, assert researchers...

High Incidence Of Asymptomatic Infection Highlights Need for Targeted STD Screening.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The rate of asymptomatic infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis is high enough to warrant the development of targeted screening...

Researchers Discover Novel Way To Kill Bacteria.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at The Rockefeller University, New York, have discovered a powerful new way to destroy on contact the bacteria that cause strep throat, flesh-eating disease, and a variety of other...

Mass Treatment With Azithromycin Does Not Appear Induce Antibiotic Resistance.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study by researchers with the Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases (DBMD) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may help allay concerns...

Study Finds Mass Antibiotic Treatment Is Best Way To Fight Blinding Disease.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and his colleagues have pinpointed a cost-effective way to battle trachoma, a childhood eye infection common in some developing nations that...

Financial Incentives More Effective Than Outreach For Completion Of TB Therapy.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Rewarding tuberculosis patients with money when they take their medication is more effective than sending outreach workers to observe them, according to a...

New Initiative Aims To Increase Access To Free TB Drugs.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) and the global partnership to Stop TB announced on March 20, 2001, a new initiative to increase access to tuberculosis (TB) drugs for 10 million patients over the...

New Microparticle Carrier Sustains Isoniazid Delivery Up To Seven Weeks.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A biodegradable polymeric drug carrier shows promise for the delivery of isoniazid and other anti-tubercular drugs. Poly (DL-lactide-co-glyoolide)...

Researchers See Likelihood Of Higher Reinfection Rates.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a study on Gran Carnaria Island, Spanish investigators have concluded that reinfection of "cured" tuberculosis patients by another infected individual may be more of a significant cause of the...

Test Offers Rapid, Accurate Detection Of Extrapulmonary Disease.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new test for the detection of extrapulmonary tuberculosis rivals Mycobacterium culture for accuracy, but works as quickly as the acid-fast bacilli smear....

WHO Says There Are Immediate Solutions For Persistent Problems.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than one billion people drink unsafe water and 2.4 billion - 40% of the human race - are without adequate sanitation, and 3.4 million people, mostly children, die every year of water-related...

Wildlife A Potential Source Of Cryptosporidium In Public Water Supply.
April 3, 2001... 2001 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Watch out. Those innocent woodland creatures could be harboring the Cryptosporidium parasite, say researchers from Columbia University. J. Perz and S. Le Blancq reported their findings in the...

Cobra Venom Factor Delays Onset Of Scrapie.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Studies of scrapie, a sheep disease classified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), may offer clues to the route of infection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and...

New Genetic Typing Method May Ultimately Lead To Global Database.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Researchers at the Pasteur Institute have constructed a new typing method for epidemiological surveillance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The method...

Streptococcus pneumoniae Still A Heavy Hitter.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Identification of pathogens and correct antibiotic coverage is critical in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), say researchers working in...

DNA Vaccine Prevents But Does Not Cure Infection.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A DNA vaccine combining outer surface proteins (Osp) of Borrelia burgdorferi is able to stimulate antibody protection against future infection with Lyme...

Mass Vaccination Program Dramatically Lowers Transmission In Spain.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A mass vaccination program to address an upsurge of serogroup C meningococcal disease (SCMD) in Spain led to a decline of SCMD in both the vaccinated and...

Wait-And-See Approach Cuts Antibiotic Use.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Children with acute otitis media could benefit from a waiting period while parents allow the condition to resolve on its own, say researchers in England....

Don't Start Vaccination Too Soon Or Finish Too Early.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Starting the three-dose course of polio vaccination at the currently recommended age of six months and finishing at 18 months produces the most persistent...

CD40-Stimulated Dendritic Cells Boost Immunity, But Not Disease Resistance.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Using dendritic cells stimulated with the cytokine CD40 to vaccinate against tuberculosis enhances immune response to the disease, but does not prevent...

Safety, Efficacy Tests Begin On Controversial Vaccine.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New tests on the effectiveness and safety of the anthrax vaccine were scheduled to begin at the end of March 2001. The battery of studies, coordinated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

CDC Says Sheep Pose Disease Risk To Humans Only If Eaten.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Humans would be at risk from the East Friesian sheep brought to Ames, Iowa, to be tested for mad cow disease only if they ate the animals, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

USDA Is Monitoring Cows In Vermont, Minnesota, And Texas.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. federal officials are monitoring cows in Vermont, Minnesota, and Texas for signs of mad cow disease, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture expert on the illness. Linda Detwiler,...

DNA Assay Better Than Culture For Detection.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new DNA test for the simultaneous detection of chlamydia and gonorrhea is comparable to existing DNA assays, and is more sensitive than culture for...

Two Fatalities Reported In Colorado, USA.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- At least two people have died in Colorado this year from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, an illness similar to mad cow disease. The patients, both over 60, died at Exempla St. Joseph Hospital in...

Antibody Reactivity Boosts Virulence.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Researchers working in the United States say they may have found an answer to the question, "What makes Ebola virus so deadly?" Antibody reactivity to...

Singapore's TB Rate Is High Compared To That Of Developed Countries.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The number of tuberculosis cases is still relatively high in affluent, highly modernized Singapore, health officials said March 23, 2000. Singapore's year 2000 rate of 47 new tuberculosis...

Current Prevention And Detection Efforts Examined.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- When it strikes cows, pigs, and other livestock, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) rapidly threatens financial disaster for farmers and, potentially, for entire economies. Effective vaccines have...

Mandatory Vaccination of Japanese Schoolchildren Demonstrates "Herd Immunity".
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - During a 25-year period when most Japanese children were immunized against influenza, fewer elderly people died from the disease. That lower mortality...

U.S. CDC Says 2000-01 Flu Season Lightest In Four Years.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- This flu season was the lightest in four years, despite a shortage of vaccine in the fall, the U.S. government reported March 22, 2001. The viral disease peaked in late January, when flu...

Vaccination Of Healthy Working Adults Would Save Money.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Large-scale vaccination of healthy working adults would generate cost savings in most situations, according to a new study in the Archives of Internal...

New Diagnostic Test Offers Higher Specificity.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new method of isolating antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi may eliminate problems with cross-reactivity and false-negatives when diagnosing Lyme disease....

Artesunate Plus Pyrimethamine-Sulfadoxine Regimen Cuts Transmission.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The anti-malarial agent artesunate combined with pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine lowers, but does not eliminate, transmission of malaria from infected humans to...

UN Agencies Launch New Plan To Halve Global Measles Deaths By 2005.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a concerted move against one of the world's deadliest childhood diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced on March 29, 2001, a new...

Re-Used Atomizer Nozzle May Have Spread Tuberculosis Strain.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Patients with identical strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis may have been infected with a re-used atomizer nozzle during bronchoscopy. Researchers...

Erythroid Lineage Markers May Point To Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Researchers working in Scotland have uncovered an early diagnostic marker for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human variation of bovine spongiform...

Peptidase Vaccine Clears Group B Streptococci.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The use of streptococcal C5a peptidase (SCPB) in a vaccine against group B streptococci (GBS) confers protection from not only GBS but possibly all...

Colorimetric Assays Offer Rapid, Simple Test For Drug Resistance.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Two colorimetric assays give an accurate indication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance in as little as three days, researchers in Italy report....

DOTS Evaluated In Russia.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In the Russian Federation, the number of tuberculosis cases has nearly tripled, increasing from 45,000 cases in 1991 to 124,000 in 1999. Multidrug resistant strains have also been shown to have...

Intestinal Worms May Lower Efficacy Of BCG Vaccine.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Parasites endemic in some parts of the world may have a detrimental effect on tuberculosis immunity, according to a new report in Clinical and Experimental...

More Vigilant Follow-Up Needed To Avoid Drug Resistance.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - More directly observed therapy and better clinical follow-up of tuberculosis patients could lessen antibiotic resistance problems, say researchers working...

Targeting Early Latent Infection Can Control Outbreaks.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new mathematical model predicts that identification and treatment of new latent tuberculosis infection may be the key to controlling epidemics. "The...

Two-Step Skin Testing Worthwhile.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Two-step skin testing for tuberculosis is worth doing for health care workers and patients who are likely to get re-tested, according to researchers at the...

Heavy Spring Snow Melt May Boost Mosquito Breeding.
April 10, 2001... 2001 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New Hampshire's tough winter means the state may have a tougher time this summer fighting the West Nile virus. State Health and Human Service commissioner Donald Shumway said snowmelt and...

Epiroprim Plus Isoniazid Shows Strong Anti-M. tuberculosis Activity In Vitro.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor epiroprim cannot fight Mycobacterium tuberculosis on its own but may be a useful adjunctive therapy to isoniazid -...

Hospital Testing Could Help Avoid Multi-Drug Resistance.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Testing hospital patients for tuberculosis - even those not suspected of having the disease - could help reduce the spread of TB in developing countries,...

HSV2 Grows Up: Boomer Women Continue To Suffer Physical, Psychological Effects.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Many women who acquired genital herpes during the first outbreaks are starting to move into their fifties now and medical care must address their unique...

Development Of New Drugs Urged As Chloroquine Resistance Grows In Africa.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine has rendered the drug next to useless in some areas of sub-Saharan Africa, and may even be responsible...

Outbreak Caused By Acinetobacter In Thermos Flasks.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An outbreak of infection caused by Acinetobacter baumannii in an Austrian hospital was determined to have its source in thermos flasks harboring the bacteria. Hospital-acquired infections are...

Elevated Cytokine Levels Do Not Protect HIV Patients.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, staff medical writer - Increased levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines do not affect the course of pleural tuberculosis in HIV infected patients, according to researchers in...

Surgery Re-Gains Status As Viable Option For Diagnosis, Treatment.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - With the rise of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis worldwide, surgery is once again being used to diagnose and treat the disease. Researchers in...

New Oral Rehydration Solution Is More Effective For Treating Children.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Children who receive a less concentrated (reduced osmolarity) oral rehydration solution for the treatment of dehydration and diarrhea are significantly less likely to need costly intravenous (IV)...

Rotavirus Vaccine Limits Duration Of Sapporo-Like Virus Diarrhea.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Rotavirus vaccine appears to shorten the duration of gastroenteritis caused by Sapporo-like viruses (SLVs), say researchers working in Finland. SLV...

HPV 16 Vaccine Effective, Well-Tolerated In Humans.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Immunization with a papillomavirus virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine composed of L1, a major structural viral protein, is safe and highly effective in...

Adequate Vaccine Coverage Trumps Oseltamivir Prophylaxis In Outbreaks.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The antiviral medication oseltamivir may be useful for controlling outbreaks of influenza B, but vaccination of patients and staff in long-term care...

VraA Protein Vaccine Offers Partial Immunity.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - An antigen associated with Borrelia burgdorferi strain B31 is a promising candidate for vaccination against Lyme disease, say researchers working in the...

Two Vaccines Offer Varying Protection From P. falciparum In Monkeys.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Two vaccines based on the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP1) produced contrasting results in Aotus nancymai monkeys, report...

Outbreaks Of Pseudomonas aeruginosa And Burkholderia cepacia Reported.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Outbreaks of hospital-acquired infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia were highlighted at the at 2001 annual meeting of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and...

Meningococcal Group C Vaccine Is Safe, Effective In Infants.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Infants vaccinated against meningococcal group C have few side effects and show high antibody titers against Neisseria meningitidis, according to a report...

Simultaneous Vaccination Against DTP, Hib Is Safe And Effective.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Researchers working in Thailand have determined that vaccinating children with combined diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine and Haemophilus...

New Infections Reduced By 99% Since 1988, UN Says.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A United Nations-led program has reduced the number of new polio infections by 99% since 1988, United Nations officials say, but wiping out the disease will cost $1 billion and send health workers...

Travelers Head Out Armed Against Malaria, But Not Gonorrhea.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - When travel clinic services ignore the potential for sexual activity among their patients, they leave the door open for sexually transmitted diseases...

New DNA Vaccine Stimulates Antibody Response In Mice.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A DNA vaccine containing a peptide sequence that closely mimics a Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype may offer a useful alternative to current S. pneumoniae...

Vaccine Shortage Forces VA To Prioritize Patients At Risk.
April 17, 2001... 2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Following a trend that is affecting U.S. hospitals, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has begun to prioritize who gets tetanus shots, reserving them for patients most at risk for tetanus...