TB & Outbreaks Week articles from June 2003

TB & Outbreaks Week archives from June 2003

Osteopontin levels linked to disease severity.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Osteopontin (OPN) plays a key role in the pathogenesis of pulmonary tuberculosis, researchers in Japan say. OPN, "a noncollagenous matrix protein produced...

Lymphotoxin beta receptor plays key role in infection control.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Germany have identified a molecule that plays a key role in immune response to tuberculosis and other infections. "Containment of...

Novel assay useful for Salmonella genotyping.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A novel genetic assay is useful for identifying strains of Salmonella and other pathogens. In a recent study from Norway, "seventy-eight human and environmental strains of Salmonella enterica subsp....

Brazilian medicinal plants active against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- South American medicinal plants have yielded agents active against drug-resistant staphylococci. According to recent research from Brazil, "fourteen extracts from Brazilian traditional medicinal...

Automated acid-fast bacilli stainer shows promise.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An automated acid-fast bacilli stainer may aid tuberculosis diagnosis. "The current strategy for the control of tuberculosis (TB) relies on early diagnosis, and smear microscopy is an essential...

Rv3133c/DosR is a transcription factor involved in infection latency.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The mycobacterial protein Rv3133c/DosR is a transcription factor, and plays a key role in establishing latent tuberculosis infection. "Unlike many pathogens that are overtly harmful to their hosts,...

Secrets of drug resistance revealed.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In the race to stay one step ahead of drug-resistant bacteria, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley obtained high-resolution images of a...

Yersinia pestis survives for days on environmental surfaces.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Yersinia pestis can survive for days on environmental surfaces. According to recent research from the United States, "The survival of two strains of Yersinia pestis (avirulent A1122 and virulent...

Vaccine producer provides updates on corporate programs.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Acambis plc (ACAM) announced its results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2003. During the first quarter of 2003, there were a number of positive developments relating to our smallpox vaccine...

Novel molecular assay detects pandemic Vibrio strain in seawater.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A novel polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay can detect a pandemic Vibrio strain in seawater, and may help prevent seafood-based outbreaks. Scientists at the University of Alabama described "the...

Seasonal flux seen in Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia rate.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The rate of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) varies by season. PCP "remains a serious opportunistic infection in HIV infected individuals," immunologists in England explained. "Seasonal changes...

Hepatitis A vaccine does not affect course of HIV.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hepatitis A vaccination did not affect the course of HIV infection in HIV-positive patients. "The safety and immunogenicity of inactivated hepatitis A (HepA) vaccine was assessed in 133 hepatitis A...

DNA vaccine and interleukin-12 plasmid protect against hepatitis C.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Double boosts of a DNA vaccine along with interleukin-12 protected mice against hepatitis C. "We evaluated the prime-boost immunization consisting of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-core expression plasmid...

Experts examine global progress in vaccines.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Many of the world's vaccine scientists met at the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases' (NFID) Sixth Annual Conference on Vaccine Research to present the latest research on vaccines against...

Imported oysters may spread Norwalk-like viruses in Switzerland.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Oysters imported into Switzerland may carry Norwalk-like viruses. "Molluscan shellfish are known to be carriers of viral and bacterial pathogens," microbiologists there noted. "The consumption of...

Novel molecular assay detects low levels of Norwalk-like viruses.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A novel molecular assay can detect low levels of Norwalk-like viruses (NLVs). The reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)-based test "is highly sensitive to a broad range of NLVs,"...

Levofloxacin treatment produces bactericidal levels in aqueous humor.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Standard levofloxacin treatment produces bactericidal levels in the aqueous humor. Scientists in Japan conducted a study "to measure the concentration of levofloxacin in aqueous humor after topical...

Nasal vaccine delivery platform data presented at vaccine conference.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Carrington Laboratories, Inc., (CARN) announced that results of an initial study sponsored by its subsidiary DelSite Biotechnologies, Inc., were presented at the 6th Annual Conference of Vaccine...

Sitofloxacin effective for treatment.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sitofloxacin is effective for the treatment of leprosy, alone or in combination with other antimycobacterial agents. According to a study from the United States, "the antimicrobial effects of...

Study finds portion of population resistant to infectious Norwalk virus.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Noroviruses, which have been especially problematic in the cruise industry in recent years, cause digestive tract infection or irritation resulting in an estimated 23 million infections, 50,000...

Study shows toxic mold spread by hospital showers.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hospital showers and taps could be a significant source of life-threatening fungus infections for patients with weakened immune systems, researchers report. Aspergillus, a toxic mold, is a...

Virulence factors of Serratia marcescens identified by in vivo screening.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans served as an in vivo model in a study of Serratia marcescens' virulence and pathogenicity. According to immunologists at the University of Mediterranee,...

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine protects children in Brazil.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The pneumococcal conjugate vaccine reduced mortality from pneumococcal infection in children in Brazil. According to recent research from Brazil, "The distribution of pneumococcal serotypes in...

New data released on plague, strep vaccines.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ID Biomedical has confirmed that nasal Proteosome-based vaccines protect against pneumonic Plague caused by lethal aerosol infection with virulent Plague bacteria in a mouse model of airborne...

Drug resistance rates dropping in southern Taiwan.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Tuberculosis drug resistance rates are falling in southern Taiwan, presumably as a result of regulatory treatment restrictions. Researchers in Taiwan conducted a study "to investigate the...

Pretreatment drug for RSV-related wheezing also effective after symptoms set in.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Infectious disease specialists at the University at Buffalo have demonstrated a potentially effective treatment to prevent the frequently life-threatening complications that can develop in infants from...

Antiviral medicine sent to Chinese Hospitals for testing.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Randy Powers, president of Liddell Laboratories announced that the first shipment of its new antiviral medicine designed for SARS patients will arrive in China and Hong Kong this week for clinical...

CT images help radiologists diagnose SARS.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Radiologists have used computed tomography (CT), a diagnostic imaging procedure that uses special x-ray equipment to obtain cross-sectional pictures of the body, to better define severe acute...

China broadens usage of i-STAT system.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- i-STAT Corporation (STAT), a manufacturer of point-of-care diagnostic systems for blood analysis, announced it is making stepped-up shipments of the i-STAT System to China. The shipments are part...

Commercial lab test available.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Focus Technologies announced that the company has developed a first-generation real-time PCR test designed to detect the presence of the coronavirus associated with the development of severe acute...

Drop in cases raises questions about masks.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As the weather heats up and SARS case count falls, Hong Kong residents are itching to ditch their surgical masks. "We should stop wearing them - the numbers of people getting sick have been low,"...

Expert says treatment for slowing AIDS virus might help.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The SARS virus apparently attacks people's cells in a manner similar to the AIDS virus, which may offer clues for finding the best drugs to treat the newly discovered disease, an AIDS researcher says....

Expert: Virus may mutate profoundly.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The SARS virus does not appear to have mutated significantly in the weeks since it spread from Asia, but a leading expert says the virus still could evolve into a more dangerous form if it enters a race...

FTC and FDA crackdown on Internet marketers of bogus SARS prevention products.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are warning web site operators, manufacturers, and distributors who suggest that their products will protect...

Modified cold drug may work.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A laboratory study in Germany suggests that a drug now being tested for treating the common cold could be modified to treat SARS, which currently has no known treatment. In a study appearing in the...

Precautions strain U.S. health system.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Keeping SARS from spreading in the United States is straining the already besieged public health system, and it's partly a matter of luck that this newest killer so far has been contained in America....

Quarantine historically first defense against virus.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In Milan in 1374, plague victims were ordered to a field outside the city, either to die or recover. Four hundred years later, Egyptian authorities sent the sick to pesthouses and shot heads of families...

Variant gives clues to origin of infection.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A genetic study of the SARS virus gives insight into the molecular behavior of the novel coronavirus responsible for SARS. Comparison of a virus isolate from Singapore with isolates from other...

WHO sees encouraging indications that outbreak can be contained.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) says experiences in a growing number of countries indicate that the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) can be contained and, therefore, prevented from becoming...

WHO: Death rate is about 15%.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The overall death rate from SARS worldwide is about 15% - double previous estimates - according to the first in-depth global analysis by the World Health Organization (WHO). Officials at the U.N....

Navajo Nation battles syphilis, HIV with rare public campaign.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Jonathan Iralu shakes his head in frustration when he recalls the week that four Navajo patients came in for checkups at his bustling hospital - and all got the same alarming diagnosis. Each had...

MIT research may lead to treatment.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- While the nation wrestles with the complications of vaccinating health professionals against smallpox, MIT researchers report that they have identified a potential new way to combat the disease. In...

Enterotoxin H induces Valpha-specific T-cell expansion.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Staphylococcal enterotoxin H (SEH) triggers Valpha-specific T-cell expansion. SEH "is a bacterial superantigen secreted by Staphylococcus aureus," researchers in Sweden explained. "Superantigens are...

Sigma factor SigB plays role in drug resistance.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The staphylococcal sigB gene is involved in antimicrobial resistance. "Previous studies of Staphylococcus aureus transposon insertion mutants showing decreased methicillin or teicoplanin resistance...

Cidofovir effective but toxic for adenovirus-infected patients.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cidofovir is effective but toxic for stem cell graft recipients with posttransplant adenovirus infections. "Adenovirus is an important cause of morbidity and mortality after allogeneic...

Cord blood grafts linked to heightened cytomegalovirus risk.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Umbilical cord blood-derived stem cell grafts carry a higher risk of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection than adult grafts. In a recent study from Japan, CMV infection "in 28 adult patients after cord...

Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi found in ticks.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi were identified in Ixodes scapularis ticks from Pennsylvania. "Ixodes scapularis ticks were collected in 2000 and 2001 from two areas in...

Gene that controls susceptibility discovered.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Investigators at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) have identified a gene that regulates the susceptibility to tuberculosis. This finding is published in the May...

Beijing genotype does not have abnormal capacity for resistance mutations.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Surprisingly, Beijing strains of tuberculosis do not have an heightened rate of drug resistance mutations. "The Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype has drawn attention because it is often...

XTT-based susceptibility assay fast, accurate.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An XTT-based assay for can quickly and accurately determine mycobacterial drug susceptibility. In a recent study from Italy, "the susceptibility or resistance of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium...

Complex chemokine responses underlie bone degeneration.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A complex pattern of chemokine activity underlies bone degeneration during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. "Tuberculous osteomyelitis is characterized by uncontrolled inflammation leading to...

Cytokine release by infected monocytes mediated by MAPK pathways.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways mediate cytokine release by tuberculosis-infected monocytes. In a recent study from South Korea, the role of MAPK pathways "in the secretion of...

Rv2579 protein is haloalkane dehalogenase.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The function of the mycobacterial protein Rv2579 has been clarified. In a recent study from Japan, "the homology model of protein Rv2579 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv was compared with the...

Vaccinia virus vaccine stable whether diluted or undiluted.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The stability of the vaccinia virus vaccine Dryvax was similar whether it was stored diluted or undiluted. According to a study from the United States, "The stability of Dryvax vaccine was examined...

CDC inks licensing agreement for test for WNV.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Spectral Diagnostics, Inc., (SDI) announced the signing of a licensing agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to develop a rapid point-of-care test for West Nile Virus (WNV)...

SIV from multiple lineages can infect human macrophages.
June 3, 2003... 2003 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Simian immunodeficiency viruses from multiple lineages can infect human macrophages, indicating the potential for cross-species transmission. "Zoonotic transfer of simian immunodeficiency virus...

Novel immunoassay improves detection of latent infection.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - A novel immunoassay can improve the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection, researchers say. "The diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection relies on...

Mycobacterial Apa protein immunogenic.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in India have identified a mycobacterial protein that could be used as the basis for a tuberculosis vaccine. "The search to identify...

Ozone treatment can prevent alfalfa E. coli contamination.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ozone treatment may prevent E. coli outbreaks from contaminated alfalfa sprouts. According to published research from the United States, conventional "chemical treatments to eliminate pathogens on...

Latent class analysis useful for diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Latent class analysis was useful for the diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia in adults. According to a study from the United States, "Diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia is complicated by the lack...

Alginate-based oral drug delivery system shows promise.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An alginate-based oral drug delivery system shows promise for the treatment of tuberculosis. According to recent research from India, "alginate microparticles were developed as oral sustained...

Treatment through "TB clubs" effective in Ethiopia.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "TB clubs" can improve the outcome of tuberculosis therapy for patients in Ethiopia and other developing areas. "Non-compliance is a major problem in the treatment of tuberculosis," researchers in...

Nearly 10% of young men could be infected.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.K. researchers highlight how the prevalence of chlamydia infection in young men could be substantially higher than previous estimates - with possibly up to 10% affected by this sexually transmitted...

Letter to shareholders give corporate update on virus drugs.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The following is a letter from Geert Kersten, CEO, and Maximilian de Clara, president, of Cel-Sci Corporation (CVM) to its shareholders: In our March 12, 2003, shareholder letter we outlined our...

Scientists predict swift end to epidemic.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As few as 40 people over the next 80 years could die from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) as a consequence of eating BSE-infected meat. Previous estimates of the size of the vCJD epidemic...

Researchers find potential drug screening target.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have located a vulnerable pocket in the protein that coats the dengue virus, a potentially deadly mosquito-transmitted disease that...

Tool captures key risk factors to bring global chronic diseases under control.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched The SuRF Report 1, which captures for the first time chronic disease country risk factor profiles from 170 Member States. This is the first step in...

Heparan sulfate not sole mediator of TBE virus cell attachment.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Heparan sulfate is not the only mediator of TBE virus cell attachment. In a recent study from Austria, "attachment of the flavivirus tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus to different permissive cell...

E.U. National Reference Laboratories effectively monitor milk pathogens.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- National European Union laboratories effectively monitor milk products for staphylococcal and other pathogens. "The European Commission has designed a network of European Union-National Reference...

Novel molecular assay can improve detection of contaminated shellfish.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A novel molecular assay may improve the safety of commercial shellfish. "Outbreak of diseases associated with consumption of raw shellfish especially oysters is a major concern to the seafood...

Phage therapy could remove E. coli O157:H7 from livestock.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A bacteria-killing virus found in the feces of some sheep could help remove the dangerous food-borne bacteria Escherichia coli O157:H7 from livestock. Researchers from Evergreen State College in...

Phage therapy could remove E. coli disease from livestock.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A bacteria-killing virus found in the feces of some sheep could help remove the dangerous food-borne bacteria Escherichia coli O157:H7 from livestock. Researchers from Evergreen State College in...

Pressure groups call on countries to fund project to treat AIDS, malaria, TB.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A global project that offered hope to the victims of diseases that kill 6 million people a year is in danger of collapsing because the world's richest countries have failed to finance it, pressure...

Micafungin (FK463) active against resistant aspergilli.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Micafungin is active against drug-resistant aspergilli pathogens. In a recent study from England, researchers "compared the activity of four doses of micafungin (FK463) with that of amphotericin...

New treatment from common herb.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new antiherpes agent derived from a common herb effectively treats and prevents the disease in animals. Researchers from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia presented their data at the 103rd General...

Helicobacter metronidazole resistance possible without rdxA mutations.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Polymorphisms in the Helicobacter rdxA gene may not be needed for metronidazole resistance. In H. pylori, such resistance "reportedly occurs by mutational inactivation of the oxygen-insensitive...

Clinical disinfectants trigger pseudomonal drug resistance.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Clinical disinfectants can trigger drug resistance mutations in pseudomonal microbes. According to published research from Japan, "induction of the MexCD-OprJ multidrug efflux pump was...

Combination vaccine delivers double blow.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new vaccine approach that delivers a one-two punch could give the immune system an edge against malaria, AIDS and other exigent diseases in people, Adrian Hill and colleagues report. The...

High malaria rates lower Ivory Coast cotton output.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- High malaria rates reduce the efficiency of cotton farming in the Ivory Coast. Scientists in France examined "the role of malaria and some social determinants on the agricultural development and...

Non-bacteremic organ donors can still spread bacterial pathogens.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Organ donors without bacterial pathogens in their bloodstream can still transmit bacterial infections. "Transmission of bacterial infections from donor to recipient may occur with donor...

Non-fumigatus Aspergillus less vulnerable to phagocytosis.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Non-fumigatus Aspergillus species are less susceptible to phagocytosis than their counterparts. In a recent study from Greece, "human phagocytic defenses against non-fumigatus aspergilli were...

Synthetic antibiotics alter Shaoyao-Gancao-tang levels.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Synthetic antibiotics can alter Shaoyao-Gancao-tang pharmacokinetics. In a recent study from Japan, "the effects of orally co-administered antibiotics on the pharmacokinetics of peoniflorin (PF)...

Telithromycin effective against refractory streptococcal infections.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Telithromycin is effective against drug-resistant streptococcal infections. "The incidence of community-acquired respiratory tract infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae exhibiting...

Elderly adults mount strong immune response to influenza vaccination.
June 10, 2003... 2003 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Elderly adults vaccinated against influenza mounted strong, protective immune responses, according to a report in the Journal of Clinical Immunology. According to recent research from Poland, "The...