TB & Outbreaks Week articles from June 2001

TB & Outbreaks Week archives from June 2001

Findings Suggest Nicotine Could Be A Potential Treatment.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, have reported study data showing that nicotine has activity against several mycobacterial species. Current therapy against...

Thin-Layer Chromatography Detects Substandard TB Drugs Worldwide.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A substantial number of tuberculosis drugs may not be delivering what they promise, a quality assurance shortfall that could contribute to the worldwide...

Linuche unguiculata Causes Seabather's Eruption At Various Stages of Maturity.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - All three swimming stages of Linuche unguiculata from larvae to adult can cause seabather's eruption (SBE), report scientists working in the Caribbean...

Researchers Target Natural Heparin's Role In Promoting Infection.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Heparan sulfate, the natural heparin-like molecule that prevents blood from clotting, has been targeted by scientists as an agent that plays a role in promoting infection. According to Dr....

New PCR Method Distinguishes Between Invasive, Noninvasive Listeria Strains.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A recently developed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test is able to discriminate between invasive and noninvasive strains of Listeria monocytogenes,...

Diagnostic Assays Compared.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A newly improved cell culture amplification-antigen detection (CCA-Ag) isolation-based assay is highly accurate and may be useful for resolving...

Screening Works Better Than Passive Detection Among Immigrant Groups.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Programs that screen for pulmonary tuberculosis among newly arrived immigrants from highly endemic countries may be a worthwhile investment of public health...

Aspergillus fumigatus Genome Sequenced.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Elitra Pharmaceuticals has the complete sequence of the Aspergillus fumigatus genome, a major human fungal pathogen, at 10X depth of coverage, the company says. Elitra contracted the sequencing...

"Rare" Infection Found To Be Common In City Kids.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The fungus Cryptococcus neoformans is an important cause of central nervous system infections in adults with HIV/AIDS. Now, in a surprising finding published in journal Pediatrics, researchers...

Rhinovirus Replicons Allow Mucosal Immunization With RSV Fusion Protein.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Human rhinovirus vectors allow the successful in vitro expression of human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) fusion (F) protein following mucosal...

Diet And Disease In Cattle: High-Grain Feed May Promote Illness And Harmful Bacteria.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Grain-fed cattle provide nicely marbled beef. Yet, low-fiber diets can make cattle sick, while allowing harmful bacteria to proliferate, a paper in the May 11, 2001, issue of Science reports. ...

Grant Enables Team to Launch Study of Salmonella.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Among bacteria, Salmonella is one of the most devious. Once ingested, it slides down the esophagus and outlasts the digestive juices in the stomach, just waiting for the opportunity to reach...

Health, Agriculture Ministers to Meet in Brazil To Discuss FMD, Zoonoses.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Experts and authorities from 32 countries met May 2-4, 2001, in Brazil to discuss policies to prevent and control foot-and-mouth disease, zoonoses such as mad cow disease, and food safety. The...

Worldwide Eradication Goals May Conflict With Local Health Priorities.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - When it comes to health care, what works in the industrialized world may not work in poorer countries, a fact that isn't necessarily apparent until common...

New Vaccine Stimulates Mucosal, Systemic Antibodies in Mice.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A vaccine incorporating the recombinant B subunit of the Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin (LTB) completely protects mice from influenza, say researchers...

Deaths Increase In Namibia.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Malaria in northern Namibia has assumed epidemic proportions and drugs to help combat the situation are to be airlifted to Namibia from Zimbabwe, the Namibian reported on May 9, 2001. According...

Johns Hopkins University To Establish Research Center.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Johns Hopkins University will establish the world's foremost center for malaria research using a US$100 million gift from an anonymous donor, according university officials. Public health...

Inadequate Diagnostic Tests Hamper Reporting Efforts.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Physicians have been backed into a corner when choosing antibiotic therapy for potential Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections. That's because studies...

Correlation Found With Increase In Antibiotic-Resistant Streptococcus.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have observed an alarming correlation between an increase in antibiotic-resistant strains of gram-positive bacteria (Streptococcus pneumoniae) and a rise in complications associated with...

Careful Therapy Considerations Could Ease Resistance Problems.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - When prescribing antibiotics for pneumococcal infections, clinicians are justifiably nervous about growing resistance problems. But they may be leaning...

IM Preimmunization With PVRV Confers Best Antibody Protection In Travelers.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Rabies vaccination can be given before or after exposure, but even people with adequate immunity to rabies need two follow-up boosters if exposed. That...

Endotoxin Removal Delivers Promising Vaccine Candidate For M. catarrhalis.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - By reducing the level of endotoxin in the UspA2 protein of Moraxella catarrhalis, researchers have come up with a promising candidate for a vaccine against...

Rise In Cases Suggests Safe-Sex Practices Are Ignored.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A rise in the number of new syphilis cases in Massachusetts during 2000, particularly among gay men, has state health officials worried that safe sex practices are slipping. Last year's 43%...

Cooking With Wood Stoves Associated With Active Disease.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Current exposure to biomass smoke from traditional wood stove cooking in urban and suburban areas of central Mexico is significantly associated with active...

T-Cell Antigen Mtb 8.4 Shows Promise As Vaccine Candidate.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Researchers working in the United States and Brazil have confirmed the effectiveness of Mtb 8.4, a low-molecular-weight immunoreactive T cell antigen,...

PCR Identification Of Cerebrospinal Enterovirus Should Be Widely Used.
June 5, 2001... 2001 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Isolation of enterovirus from cerebrospinal fluid by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a sensitive and reliable way to diagnose viral meningitis, but...

Risk Factors For Latent TB In Small Children Identified.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Exposure to adults with active tuberculosis along with birth or travel outside the United States are red flags that should alert pediatricians to higher...

Supervised Preventive Therapy Works For Injection Drug Users.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Spending more time and money up front to keep injection drug users with latent tuberculosis (TB) on strict, anti-TB regimens will improve patient outcomes and save money in the long run, according...

Horizontal Gene Transfer Could Result In Emergence Of Methicillin-Resistant Staph. aureus.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A baby who developed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection without exposure to MRSA carriers suggests an alternative model for the acquisition of this virulent staphylococcal...

Health Care Coalition Successful In Controlling Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A coalition of health care facilities; state and local health departments in the Siouxland Region of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota; the Indian Health Service; and the U.S. Centers for Disease...

Cidofovir Shows Promise Against Smallpox, Other Poxviruses.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Following the global eradication of smallpox and discontinuation of the vaccinia virus vaccine, most of the world's population would be vulnerable to...

Vaccine Proves Valuable During Outbreak In China.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The Vi polysaccharide vaccine may prove useful in areas endemic for typhoid fever, both before and during outbreaks. H.H. Yang and colleagues...

Respiratory Viruses More Likely Among Day Care Children With CMV.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Young children colonized with cytomegalovirus (CMV) are more susceptible to respiratory viruses than those who attend daycare centers where CMV circulates,...

FDA Approves Assay For Chlamydia And Gonorrhea.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Gen-Probe, Inc. has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to sell its target-amplified nucleic acid probe test for the in vitro diagnostic detection of ribosomal ribonucleic acid...

New Assay Convenient For Large-Scale Screening Efforts.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A simplified test to detect antibodies to Japanese encephalitis virus could make large-scale screening and vaccine development more convenient. The...

Hospitalized Patients Should Get Flu Vaccine.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Hospital inpatients have as much or more to gain from influenza vaccination as anyone else, yet they rarely receive the vaccine while hospitalized. If...

Add 'Infotherapy' To Your List Of Medical Terms.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- NewsRx Network, Atlanta, Georgia, the leading provider of life science databases and daily and weekly health news, now has coined a new medical word: "infotherapy." The new word is the...

Nasal Immunization Helps Subdue Corneal Infection By Bacteria.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Rats immunized with killed Pseudomonas aeruginosa are better able to resist potentially blinding corneal infection than nonimmunized controls, according to...

Researchers Discover How Food-Borne Pathogen Crosses Intestinal Barrier.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists at the Pasteur Institute in France have discovered exactly how the pathogen Listeria monocytogenes penetrates the body to sicken and sometimes kill vulnerable individuals who eat...

New Isolate Related To M. triplex Suggests Complexity of Mycobacteria.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Discovery of a pathogen closely related to Mycobacterium triplex suggests that the genus Mycobacterium may be more complicated than previously thought and...

CDC Reports on Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak Among Automotive Plant Workers.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Health care providers should perform appropriate diagnostic tests for patients with pneumonia who also work in settings where Legionnaires' disease transmission has been known to occur, recommends...

CT Scan A Valuable Diagnostic Tool For Aspergillosis.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Computed tomography (CT) is useful in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary aspergilloma, the most common form of pulmonary aspergillosis, say...

MGIT Drug Susceptibility Test Reliable and Quick.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The manual Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT) method can accurately predict susceptibility to rifampin and isoniazid and offers a quicker turnaround...

Resistance To Anti-TB Drugs Poses Substantial Worldwide Threat.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A study in the New England Journal of Medicine confirms that multidrug-resistant TB remains a serious problem throughout the world, particularly in some...

Screening Can Accurately Predict Which Children Should Get Skin Test.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A short questionnaire assessing demographics and tuberculosis risk factors can pinpoint which children should receive the Mantoux tuberculin skin test...

Flu Vaccine Stimulates Specific, Not General, Antibody Response In MS Patients.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Fears that vaccination against influenza might stimulate central nervous system (CNS) antibodies in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients have been laid to...

Increasing Vaccination Leads To Herd Immunity.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The increasing incidence of varicella vaccination in North Carolina day care centers has been accompanied by an even faster decline in infection,...

Purification Sachets Allow Safe Reconstitution Of Therapeutic Feeds In Less-Developed Countries.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Low-cost osmotic water-purification sachets could have an important public-health role in less-developed countries where contaminated water supplies are common. A biodegradable two-compartment...

Robotic System Allows Large-Scale Viral RNA Surveillance.
June 12, 2001... 2001 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Researchers with the New York State Department of Health have developed an automated system with a turnaround time of just 4.5 hours for large-scale...

Drug-Susceptibility Status Has Little Bearing On Infection Of Contacts.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Whether tuberculosis patients have multidrug-resistant (MDR) or drug-susceptible (DS) disease, people who are exposed to them share similar rates of...

Exogenous Reinfection Seen In Immigrant Populations.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new study in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology highlights the importance of containing the spread of tuberculosis among populations of immigrants from...

Experimental Treatment Shows Promise.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An experimental treatment for Ebola virus infection using immune serum from survivors is effective in protecting mice from the disease, say researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

New Study Sees HIV Rates Jump.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Social worker Anthony McWilliams says he sees it every day - a new generation of gays and bisexuals numb from years of endless AIDS statistics and warnings about the epidemic. "It becomes...

Young Adults Could Benefit From HPV Education.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A brief educational intervention in the family practice setting could go a long way toward removing misconceptions about human papillomavirus (HPV), the...

DNA Vaccine Is Immunogenic But Falls Short of Full Protection.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A DNA vaccine consisting of Plasmodium yoelii heat shock protein 60 (PyHsp60) offers enough protection against the sporozoite in mice to warrant further...

In-House Molecular Typing Lowers Rate of Hospital-Acquired Infection.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new on-site molecular typing laboratory that has been incorporated into the infection control program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago,...

One-Third Of Active TB Cases In San Francisco Area Occur In Prisons.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Because the prevalence of tuberculosis is high in jails, they remain important settings for the identification of active and latent TB infection (LTBI). In...

Economic, Environmental Factors Cause Stomach Problems Later In Life.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Children from low-income families are at a risk of developing stomach ulcers and, possibly, cancer later in life. Economic and environmental factors contribute to this problem, according to a...

Oral Vaccine Could Offer Palatable Alternative To Parenteral Delivery.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - An oral vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), the causative agent of cervical cancer, has been brought one step closer to reality by researchers in...

Bacterial Nasal Spray Could Prevent Flu.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A nasal spray containing bacteria from fermented milk may be a new preventive treatment for the flu. Researchers from Japan report promising results of this new therapy in mouse models in the...

Routine Vaccination Should Be Standard Care In Nursing Homes.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Elderly, institutionalized patients have nothing to lose and everything to gain from routine vaccination against influenza, and clinicians caring for them...

Global Target Attained, Remaining Endemic Countries Pose Greatest Challenge.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The overall target, set 10 years ago, for the global elimination of leprosy as a public health problem has been attained, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners announced during May...

Atovaquone/Proguanil Hydrochloride Effective Against Two Plasmodium Strains.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Malarone(TM) (atovaquone and proguanil hydrochloride) was shown to be highly effective against the two most common types of malaria, caused by Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax, in people without...

New Rigin Analogs Protect Rodents From Plasmodium berghei.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Two new analogs of rigin, a tetrapeptide derived from immunoglobulin G, show promise against Plasmodium berghei, the etiologic agent of rodent malaria. ...

Vaccines Against Mosquito Midgut Receptors May Limit Transmission.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - By preventing development of Plasmodium species in mosquitoes, antibodies targeting the mosquito midgut could eventually halt the global transmission of...

WHO, Novartis Join Forces To Combat Drug-Resistant Parasite.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a joint effort to provide essential medicines at affordable prices, the World Health Organization and Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis have agreed to provide developing countries with a new...

Recombinant PhpA Protein Vaccine Protects Mice From S. pneumoniae.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Researchers at Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines may have overcome some of the limitations of the current multivalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, according to a...

Injection Drug Users In Dublin, Ireland, Continue To Share Needles.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Despite efforts to educate people about the hazards of needle sharing, young injection drug users in Dublin, Ireland, continue to borrow needles from...

Direct Supervision Best Way To Ensure Compliance Among Drug Users.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Injection drug users are more likely to comply with preventive therapy for tuberculosis if their medication regimen is directly supervised, according to a...

WHO Says More Funding For Treatment Needed To Meet 2005 Control Goals.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An extra US$400 million per year would make quality medicines and treatment services available to at least 70% of the world's eight million new tuberculosis (TB) cases each year, the World Health...

Researchers Clarify Epidemiology.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Mycobacteria are often involved in head and neck infections and clinicians should be alert for the possible roles of this pathogen, say researchers working...

Youngest Children Have Greatest Disease Burden In Bangladesh.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Contrary to current recommendations, development of a vaccine against typhoid fever should target the youngest children, say researchers working in a...

BCG Infections From Vaccine Rare But Possible.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Although infection from bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine is rare, clinicians should be aware that it does happen, said researchers working in Taiwan. ...

Maryland Confirms First Case In 2001.
June 19, 2001... 2001 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A dead crow found in Baltimore, Maryland, has tested positive for the West Nile virus, the state's first confirmed case in 2001, public health officials said. The virus, which killed two...

Microbiological Testing Would Shore Up Restaurant Inspections.
June 26, 2001... 2001 JUN 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Occasional laboratory testing of swab samples from food handling areas could lessen the chance of food contamination in restaurants, say public health...

Fever, Ascites, Positive TB History Point To Abdominal Infection.
June 26, 2001... 2001 JUN 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Although abdominal tuberculosis is easily mistaken for other conditions, researchers in Saudi Arabia have clarified signs, symptoms, and laboratory...

U.S. TB Cases Drop to All-Time Low.
June 26, 2001... 2001 JUN 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The United States has sliced tuberculosis rates in half during the past decade, and the number of cases of the respiratory disease fell to an all-time low, federal health officials said on June 12,...

UN Says HIV/AIDS Epidemic Is Still In Early Stages.
June 26, 2001... 2001 JUN 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- On the 20(th) anniversary of the first published report on AIDS, United Nations experts warned on June 5, 2001, that in many countries the epidemic is still in its early stages. "HIV is...

Researcher Says More Outbreaks Likely, Advanced Vaccines Could Provide Control.
June 26, 2001... 2001 JUN 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Writing in the June 2001 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr. John Beale warns that future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) will be "more likely" as the movement of people and...

Treating Livestock With Insecticide Could Be Cost-Effective Control In South Asia.
June 26, 2001... 2001 JUN 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Insecticide treatment of livestock could be a new, cost-effective malaria control strategy in south Asia, conclude authors of a study in the June 9, 2001, issue of the Lancet. Indoor spraying...

A Third Of Childhood Cases Could Be Missed In Sub-Saharan Africa.
June 26, 2001... 2001 JUN 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Limited resources, which prevent the measurement of microbiological markers, could mean that around a third of cases of acute childhood bacterial meningitis are not diagnosed in sub-Saharan Africa....

Complement C5 Is Necessary For Granuloma Formation In TB Infection.
June 26, 2001... 2001 JUN 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Complement component C5 is needed to activate a protective cytokine response leading ultimately to formation of granulomas in tuberculosis-infected mice,...

More Effective Prescribing May Curtail Outbreaks Of Bacterial Infection.
June 26, 2001... 2001 JUN 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Appropriate prescribing of antibiotics for Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae may prevent their progression to extended-spectrum beta-lactamase...

South Africa Outbreak Grows.
June 26, 2001... 2001 JUN 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The number of people infected by a cholera outbreak in South Africa has broken the 100,000 mark, and authorities said on June 4, 2001, there was no end in sight to the epidemic. Since it...