TB & Outbreaks Week articles from August 2008

TB & Outbreaks Week archives from August 2008

Studies from University of Minnesota in the area of agammaglobulinemia published.
August 5, 2008... According to recent research from the United States, "Immune defects prolonged by treatment regimens for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) include cell-mediated immunity and hypogammaglobulinemia. Infections have become increasingly important...

Studies in the area of aspergillosis reported from M.O. Xavier and co-researchers.
August 5, 2008... "A case of invasive aspergillosis caused by Aspergillus niger in a lung transplant recipient is described," scientists in Porto Alegre, Brazil report (see also Aspergillosis). "The patient presented hyperglycemia starting postoperatively,...

Studies from City University of New York, Lehman College describe new findings in behavior.
August 5, 2008... "Research interest in extra-marital sex has increased as scholars have become aware of its role in sustaining epidemics of STDs in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. While most research has used the socioeconomic and demographic features of...

New bovine-spongiform encephalopathy study findings have been reported by scientists at University of Konstanz.
August 5, 2008... "This study examined the relation between health behavior and risk perceptions in the context of an acute livestock epidemic. Participants in a longitudinal web-based survey (N = 195) were asked to report their meat consumption and their...

Studies from F. Jalil and co-researchers in the area of chronic disease published.(Report)
August 5, 2008... According to a study from Lahore, Pakistan, "Evidence suggests that risk of chronic diseases may be programmed during the foetal and early life of the infant. With high rates of low birthweight coupled with a rapid nutritional transition,...

Research from Mayo Clinic provides new data on angiotensins.
August 12, 2008... "The current US chronic kidney disease (CKD)/end stage renal disease (ESRD) epidemic, coincident with the increasing application of renin angiotensin aldosterone system (RAAS) blockade, has raised concerns of iatrogenic renal failure. The US...

New asthma research from Massey University outlined.
August 12, 2008... "Phase III of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) was conducted in eight Pacific countries, five of which (Samoa, Fiji, Tokelau, French Polynesia and New Caledonia) collected environmental questionnaire (EQ)...

Studies conducted at R.J. Ben et al on bacterial meningitis recently published.
August 12, 2008... "Microarrays, or biochips, are a new technology that can allow rapid detection of bacterial genetic materials. To explore their practical applications, we compared use of a microarray for the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis with the...

Studies from I. Andersson et al add new findings in the area of hemorrhagic fever.(Report)
August 12, 2008... "As a first line of defence against virus infection, mammalian cells elicit an innate immune response, characterized by secretion of type I interferons and the up-regulation of interferon stimulated genes. Many viruses down-regulate the innate...

Investigators at University of KwaZulu-Natal target HIV/AIDS.(Report)
August 12, 2008... According to recent research published in the Samj South African Medical Journal, "The high HIV prevalence in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) places immense pressure on the health system. The burden of HIV/AIDS on health services is evolving as the...

Report summarizes vector-borne and zoonotic disease study findings from Ataturk University.
August 12, 2008... According to a study from Erzurum, Turkey, "This survey was conducted to determine prevalence of Toxocara spp. eggs and seasonal variation of this prevalence in public parks in Ankara, Turkey. A total of 259 sand samples were collected from May...

Research on vector-borne and zoonotic disease detailed by L. Zhan and co-authors.
August 12, 2008... "Anaplasma phagocytophilum was detected by polymerase chain reaction in 13 (14.1%) of 92 rodents captured from a mountainous area of Zhejiang Province in southeastern China. The nucleotide sequences of 1442-bp, nearly entire 16S rRNA gene...

Estimate of Annual HIV Incidence Increases Significantly; New Estimate Will Show Need for a National AIDS Strategy.
August 19, 2008... The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) long anticipated revised estimate of annual new cases of HIV infections will be revealed on Aug. 3 in a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)....

Researchers from Mazandaran University, Medical Department describe findings in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
August 19, 2008... According to a study from Iran, "We report a case of Mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis (MVL) associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) from the South of Iran. The patient, a 12-year-old girl, was known to be a case of ALL and had...

New findings from University of Maryland in the area of biomedicine published.
August 19, 2008... According to a study from the United States, "Effective secondary prevention programs to reduce HIV transmission risk-relevant behaviors among HIV-infected individuals must go beyond the traditional, common sense prevention components to...

New clinical infectious diseases research has been reported by N. Roch et al.
August 19, 2008... According to recent research from Grenoble, France, "African tick-bite fever, a tickborne disease caused by Rickettsia africae, is endemic in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa and in the French West Indies. Most cases reported in the literature...

New findings from University of California in the area of dementia published.
August 19, 2008... According to a study from the United States, " A 70-year-old immunocompetent male presented to a memory disorders clinic with a 7-month illness that had begun with somatic complaints including transient right temporal head pain, left buttock...

Data on emerging infectious diseases discussed by researchers at University of California.
August 19, 2008... According to a study from the United States, "A total of 2,121 small mammals in California were assessed for Anaplasma phagocytophilum from 2006 through 2008. Odds ratios were > 1 for 4 sciurids species and dusky-footed woodrats." "High...

Findings in emerging infectious diseases reported from C.E. Perezosorio and co-researchers.
August 19, 2008... According to recent research published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, "Rickettsia felis is an emergent pathogen belonging to transitional group rickettsiae." "First described in 1990, R. felis infections have been reported to...

Research in the area of emerging infectious diseases reported from M.A. Jhung and colleagues.(Report)
August 19, 2008... According to recent research from the United States, "Clostridium difficile is a recognized pathogen in neonatal pigs and may contribute to enteritis in calves. Toxinotype V strains have been rare causes of human C. difficile-associated disease...

Studies in the area of emerging infectious diseases reported from World Health Organization.
August 19, 2008... "A total of 370 ticks, encompassing 7 species from 4 genera, were collected during 2002-2006 from domestic animals and vegetation in the Taza region of northeastern Morocco. Rickettsial DNA was identified in 101 ticks (27%) by sequencing PCR...

New infectious diseases research from Istanbul University, Medical Department outlined.
August 19, 2008... According to a study from Istanbul, Turkey, "Hydatid disease (HD) is endemic in many parts of the world. It may develop in almost any part of the body; the liver is the organ most frequently involved." "HID in an unusual location may make...

2048 Obesity Doomsday or a Defeatist Attitude?
August 26, 2008... What: By the year 2030, 86 percent of American adults will be overweight according to a recently released study published in the journal Obesity. By 2048, the study suggests all U.S. adults will be at least mildly overweight(1) (see also...

New antibiotics data have been reported by P.L. Hinkson and co-authors.
August 26, 2008... "Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) is caused by the toxins the organism produces when it overgrows in the colon as a consequence of antibiotic depletion of normal flora. Conventional antibiotic treatment of CDAD increases the...

New clinical infectious diseases study findings have been reported by T.J. Whitman and colleagues.(Clinical report)
August 26, 2008... According to recent research published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, "Acinetobacter baumannii is increasingly recognized as being a significant pathogen associated with nosocomial outbreaks in both civilian and military treatment...

Recent studies by K. Siegel and co-authors add new data to diabetes findings.(Report)
August 26, 2008... According to recent research published in the journal Health Affairs, "In India, thirty-five million people have diabetes-a number expected to more than double by 2025, disproportionately affecting working-age people." "The economic impact...

Studies from Pennsylvania State University update current data on epidemiology.
August 26, 2008... "Many disease pathogens stimulate immunity in their hosts, which then wanes over time. To better understand the impact of this immunity on epidemiological dynamics, we propose an epidemic model structured according to immunity level that can be...

New venereology research reported from A. Shemer and co-authors.(Report)
August 26, 2008... " The use of artificial nails (ANs) as part of nail-care cosmetics is very popular. Several side effects and complications, such as contact dermatitis and bacterial and fungal infections, have been reported in patients using ANs," researchers...

New venereology study results reported from Johnson & Johnson.(Report)
August 26, 2008... According to a study from France, "Background and objective The facial appearance of a person does not always reflect the chronological age; some people look younger or older than they really are. Many studies have described the changes in skin...