TB & Outbreaks Week articles from May 2001

TB & Outbreaks Week archives from May 2001

Scientists Identify First Factor That Enables Parasite To Infect Humans.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have identified a molecule that controls the ability of a tropical parasite, Leishmania, to infect humans. "This is the first pathway we have identified which controls the virulence...

New PCR Method Has 100% Specificity.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to detect Mycobacterium pneumoniae is both sensitive and specific and may be useful in monitoring outbreaks. ...

First Fatal Case Of Hepatitis Associated With Combination Treatment For TB.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The first known death associated with a new two-month drug regimen of rifampin and pyrazinamide for the treatment of latent tuberculosis infection has been reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease...

Transmission Also May Be Possible By Tick Bite.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cat scratch disease may no longer be the appropriate name for the malady caused by the bacterium Bartonella henselae. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have discovered...

U.S. Geological Survey Issues Wildlife Health Alert For FMD.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Although no cases of foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease have been found in the United States, given the recent outbreaks in the European Union and South America, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) wildlife...

Nursing Home Residents More Susceptible Than Community Residents.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is significantly more likely to affect nursing home residents than community residents of the same age, an epidemiological study...

Only Small Group Of Multi-Drug Resistant Strains Cause Most Episodes Of Severe Disease.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A multi-disciplinary Oxford University team in the U.K. has taken a major step in understanding one of the enduring puzzles in infectious diseases: why some individuals suffer devastating infection...

Urine Lipoarabinomannan Measurement May Be Useful Diagnostic Tool.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Testing urine for levels of lipoarabinomannan (LAM) may be a quick and noninvasive option for diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, according to a report...

Five-Day Antibiotic Regimen Offers Similar Outcomes To 10-Day Regimen.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Children with acute otitis media (AOM) do just as well with five days of antibiotics as 10 days, say physicians in a private pediatric practice. ...

Ultrafilter More Effective Than Capsule Filter For Detecting Oocysts in Water.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A hollow-fiber ultrafilter system is more effective than the capsule filter currently used with method 1622 for detecting Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in...

TB Affects 10% Of Senegalese.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Tuberculosis is prevalent in Senegal, according to an April 14, 2001, Panafrican News Agency (PANA) report. A panel of experts commissioned by the country's health ministry has found that TB...

Breakthrough Reported In Combating The Growing Risk From E. coli Food Poisoning.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Certain pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli appear to harpoon themselves into intestine lining cells in order to colonize large sections of the gut, scientists at Imperial College in London have...

Abattoir Worker In Britain May Have FMD.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A slaughterer who may have Britain's first human case of foot-and-mouth disease in decades accidentally swallowed fluid from a decomposing carcass, the government said April 24, 2001. Two other...

Countries Debate Vaccination Policy.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As of the end of March 2001, many parts of Britain were closed to visitors. The tourist industry was losing millions every week. It was suggested the general election may be postponed. And over a...

Famciclovir Comparable To Aciclovir In Resolving Outbreaks.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Famciclovir twice daily is as effective as aciclovir five times daily for treatment of genital herpes, study data indicate. Although famciclovir (FCV)...

Africa Requires Massive Funding To Help Stem Health Crisis, Experts Tell UN Panel.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Addressing an expert panel at United Nations Headquarters in New York, a Harvard University professor made an impassioned appeal on April 17, 2001, for massive assistance to help Africa stem its...

Small Outbreak Has Kenyan Hospitals On Alert.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Panafrican News Agency (PANA) said on April 14, 2001, that hospitals in Kenya were ordered to prepare emergency management units for all types of hemorrhagic fever after several cases of unknown...

New Cyclopentane Derivative Comparable To Oseltamivir And Zanamivir.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - An influenza virus neuraminidase inhibitor called RWJ-270201 completely protects mice against lethal infection with influenza, and compares favorably with...

H9N2 Isolates From Parakeets Closely Related to Human H9N2.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Influenza A viruses isolated from the respiratory organs of Indian ring-necked parakeets are almost identical genetically to isolates from humans, say...

NewsRx.net Is Preferred Site for Cancer, Malaria, AIDS, Other Health Searches, Audience Measurement Shows.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- NewsRx Network, Atlanta, Georgia, the leading provider of life science databases and daily and weekly health news, announced on April 17, 2001, the results of audience measurements based on its...

Bacterial Load More Relevant Than Disease Manifestation In Immune Defense.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Leprosy patients with a positive bacillary load are less able to mount a protective response to challenge with Mycobacterium leprae antigen, study results...

Decorin May Be Key Player In Pathogenesis.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Mice deficient in decorin appear better able to resist infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, according to a report in...

Differences Between Outcomes Of Infection May Be Due To Parasite Genetics.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a paper in the April 12, 2001, issue of the journal Nature, the reason why infection by Plasmodium vivax tends to result in chronic disease while that by P. falciparum can be fatal may...

Procalcitonin Levels A Good Indicator Of Outcome.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Measuring serum procalcitonin (PCT) levels before and during treatment for Plasmodium falciparum malaria can offer useful prognostic information,...

Social Marketing Of Mosquito Nets Reduces Child Deaths In Africa.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets via a type of public-private partnership known as social marketing could substantially decrease the number of child deaths from malaria and...

Epidemic Spreading In Ethiopia.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ethiopia faces a major meningitis epidemic unless international donors meet the current shortfall in vaccines, the United Nations country team for Ethiopia has warned. In a special alert...

Green Fluorescent Protein Assay Allows Rapid Test Of Germicide Activity.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - An assay using green fluorescent protein (GFP) can indicate the mycobactericidal activity of various chemical germicides in seven days or fewer, report...

Standardized Treatment Guideline Reduces Death Rates.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study by researchers at Intermountain Health Care and HealthInsight, both in Salt Lake City, Utah, has found that death rates and hospital admissions for patients with community-acquired...

Vaccination With 14-3-3 Protein Reduces Parasite Burden.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Mice immunized with the free or fusion 14-3-3 protein of Schistosoma mansoni are partially protected from schistosomiasis, say researchers working in...

Genome Sequence Completed And Published.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The complete genetic sequence of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium that is a major source of infection in human beings and one of the most resistant organisms in hospital-acquired infections, was...

Occupational Risk For Infection Low Among Japanese Health Care Workers.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, staff medical writer - Health care workers appear to be at a low risk for acquiring TT virus through occupational exposures, according to investigators in Japan. Information...

First Sexually Transmitted Outbreak Reported In U.S.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials say they have documented the first sexually transmitted outbreak in the U.S. of typhoid fever, a rare bacterial disease - at least in...

CDC Releases Strategies To Prevent Diseases Transmitted To Humans From Farm Animals.
May 8, 2001... 2001 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new strategies designed to reduce the risk of disease transmission from animals to people at venues where people have contact...

Mouse Relapse Reflects Inability To Localize Immune Response Within Lungs.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The ability to contain infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis for the long term is tied to the ability to localize antigen-specific lymphocytes within...

Phenothiazines Enhance Potency Of Antibiotic Therapy.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Phenothiazine drugs enhance the potency of antibiotics against multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, according to a new report. The phenothiazines were...

PCR Assay Avoids Need For Invasive Diagnostic Tests.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for the detection of Leishmania donovani is highly sensitive and requires only small volumes of peripheral blood...

Baseline Epidemiology Data May Further Vaccine Development.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Researchers in Australia have established baseline epidemiological patterns for rotavirus outbreaks that will allow future charting of new strains and...

Value Of LCx Assay In Diagnosing Extrapulmonary TB Is Questionable.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The positive predictive value of the LCx Mycobacterium tuberculosis assay for extrapulmonary tuberculosis is less than 50%, compared to culture, say...

Conjugate Vaccine Has 90% Efficacy In Young Children.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new conjugate of the capsular polysaccharide of Salmonella typhi, Vi, bound to nontoxic recombinant Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (rEPA) offers 90%...

Health Officials Plan Less Spraying, More Public Education.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- It is spring, and an epidemiologist's thoughts turn to the West Nile virus - the virus that arrived in the U.S. two years ago, imperiling lives and causing alarm along the East Coast. This...

Vaccine Effective Against Virulent Bacterial Strains In Rabbits, Macaques.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A licensed human anthrax vaccine (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed [AVA]) protects 80%-100% of rabbits and rhesus macaques from challenge with Bacillus anthracis,...

Clinical Picture Changing For Tubercular Infection Of Lymph Nodes.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The clinical presentation of tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis is changing, say researchers working in India. Previously known as scrofula, and more...

Wisconsin Health Authorities Investigate Outbreak That Endangers Immunocompromised People.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- State health officials are investigating how five people became infected with cryptosporidia in eight days in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Health commissioner Seth Foldy said April 27, 2001, that five...

Five Vaccine Formulations Safe, Immunogenic In Humans.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Five live, attenuated dengue vaccines are safe and well-tolerated in humans, report virologists with the U.S. army. N. Kanesa-Thasan and colleagues at...

Revamped Food Safety Program Leads To Higher Inspection Scores.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Changes to a large county food safety program have led to better inspection scores among food retailers, more frequent inspection of high-risk retailers,...

New Antigen May Figure Into Vaccine Development.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A Helicobacter pylori adhesin combined with cholera toxin conferred protection to more than 60% of mice infected with H. pylori and could be a component of...

Intranasal Vaccine Delivery Stimulates Potent Immune Response.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new intranasal influenza vaccine performs better than several other delivery systems and stimulates strong immune responses in pigs, report Chiron...

Parents Who Miss Work To Care For Sick Child Are More Accepting Of Flu Vaccine.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Parents who miss work to care for their sick children or those whose children miss school for respiratory illnesses tend to be more accepting of having...

Health Officials Fail To Uncover Source Of Ford Plant Infection.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An independent examination of water samples failed to show the source of Legionnaires' disease at a Cleveland, Ohio, Ford Motor Co. plant, a health official said April 13, 2001. Ford closed...

Tumor Necrosis Factor Essential For Control Of Infection.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Mice that are normally resistant to the protozoan parasite Leishmania major quickly succumb to fatal infection in the absence of tumor necrosis factor...

Certain Antibodies More Critical Than Others In Defining Spirochete Loads.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies are much more effective than IgM antibodies in reducing the spirochetal load in primates infected with Borrelia...

Research and Training Benefits Global Community.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Malaria kills 2.7 million people each year, according to the most recent estimates, and is responsible for enormous economic burdens in malaria-endemic regions. Ninety percent of those who die...

Esp Gene Distinguishes Subpopulation Of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A unique lineage of Enterococcus faecium containing the esp gene is associated with hospital outbreaks of vancomycin-resistant E. faecium (VREF), according...

Reported Distributions Of S. pneumoniae Serotypes May Be Inaccurate.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Differences in diagnostic and reporting practices in America and Europe, rather than a difference in geographic epidemiology, may account for the variance...

Drug Resistance Patterns Remain Stable Among Canadian-Born Patients.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Despite changing trends in tuberculosis care, and a simultaneous shift in immigration patterns, drug resistance rates among Canadian-born patients have...

Grant Awarded To Develop Diagnostic Device.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sequella, Inc., announced on April 23, 2001, that it received a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Grant from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) that will...

Outbreak Linked To Bus Trip.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Students on a school trip in Spain may have been infected on the bus while traveling, report epidemiologists there. F.E. Montero and research team...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Is A Useful Diagnostic Aid.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) appears to be useful for distinguishing tuberculous meningoencephalitis from other forms of the disease. Two...

Heat Shock Protein Enhances Suicidal DNA Vaccine Potency.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The addition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) to suicide gene vectors may boost vaccine effectiveness, say researchers working...

Measurement Of Antibody-Secreting Cells Can Predict Effectiveness Of E. coli Vaccine.
May 15, 2001... 2001 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Circulating immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibody-secreting cells (ASCs) can be a good indication of how well a vaccine against Escherichia coli will work, say...

Diphtheria Antibodies Not Up To Par Prior To Fifth Vaccine Dose.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A large proportion of children who have received four doses of diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP) or diphtheria-tetanus-whole cell pertussis...

BACTEC Assay Useful For Gauging Individual Drug Resistance.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A whole-blood bactericidal assay offers the chance to evaluate the likely effectiveness of anti-microbials against Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in...

Potential New Therapy Could Lead To Novel Treatments Against Other Bacterial Infections.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study by Harvard Medical School researchers, reported in the April 27, 2001, edition of Science, suggests a mutation in the anthrax toxin, which prevents poisoning, may lead to a double-pronged...

Canarypox-CMV pp65 Vaccine Stimulates Long-Lasting Immune Response.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A vaccine consisting of the major matrix phosphoprotein 65 (pp65) of cytomegalovirus (CMV) plus canarypox is able to stimulate pp65-specific antibody...

Adolescents Often Unaware Of HSV-2 Infection.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Sexually active adolescents should be routinely tested for herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) and would benefit from better prevention education, propose...

NIH Branch Announces Plan To Fight Malaria, HIV, and Tuberculosis.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The NIAID Global Health Research Plan for HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis provides short-, mid-, and long-term objectives for battling these diseases by building on the Institute's strong...

FDA Committee Recommends Approval Of Telithromycin For CAP.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aventis Pharmaceuticals reports that the Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended approval of Ketek(TM) (telithromycin) for the...

Sulphonamide Resistance Remains High Despite Prescribing Restriction.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A substantial decrease in prescribing of sulphonamides in the U.K. over the past decade has failed to reduce resistance to this class of antibiotic drugs, conclude authors of a study in the April...

Availability Of Pharmacist-Delivered Vaccination Influences Compliance.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Convenience counts, and that goes for preventive medical care as well as all-night grocery stores. People are more likely to get vaccinated against...

NewsRx Network Chosen As Source For 'Information Therapy'.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- NewsRx Network, Atlanta, Georgia, the leading provider of life science databases and daily and weekly health news, now is a major source for "information therapy." NewsRx databases are derived...

Intensive Education Needed To Combat Low Vaccination Rates In Nigeria.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A survey of mothers in Nigeria reveals a pervasive lack of understanding about how measles is spread and how it can be prevented. A quarter of the...

Transmission Via Staff's Hands Likely Cause of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Outbreak.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - An outbreak of multi-drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa on a burns unit was likely caused by patient-to-patient transmission on staff hands, say doctors...

Ear Drops May Reduce Need For Antibiotics To Treat Ear Infections.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Selected use of eardrops may prevent overprescription of antibiotics for childhood ear infections while satisfying the desire of parents to treat the illness, says a new study by Brown Medical...

Vaccine Proves Effective Against Streptococcus Strains In Native Americans.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Two separate studies conducted by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health researchers concluded that the new conjugated pneumococcal vaccine, which is sold under the brand name Prevnar, effectively...

Vaccination Campaign Reduces ED Visits For Pneumococcal Infection.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A massive vaccination program in the downtown Vancouver area appears to have reduced emergency department (ED) visits and admissions for pneumonia at a...

U.S. National Infant Immunization Week Targeted Children Who Lack Vaccinations.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than 900,000 American children are not routinely immunized, the consequence of which may be a revival of nearly eradicated diseases, say University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at...

DNA Vaccine Offers Post-Exposure Protection In Mice.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Researchers with the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have developed a DNA vaccine against rabies that offers post-exposure...

Condom Misconceptions Abound Among Sexually Active Adolescents.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The combustible mix of ignorance and sexual activity is underscored by new data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which reveal...

Update On Outbreak Of Acute Febrile Respiratory Illness Among U.S. Travellers To Mexico.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Mexican Ministry of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are collaborating in a joint investigation of an outbreak of acute febrile respiratory illness among...

T. brucei rhodesiense May Be Inappropriately Classified.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A minisatellite mapping technique reveals that classifying subspecies of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei based on its human infectivity may be...

Bronchoalveolar Lavage Neopterin Levels Reflect Severity Of Pulmonary TB.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Neopterin could be a useful indicator of disease severity in pulmonary tuberculosis, particularly when measured in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). K.H....

MRI Helps Characterize Extraspinal Musculoskeletal TB.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cannot be relied upon as the sole diagnostic tool for extraspinal musculoskeletal tuberculosis (EMT), but it may be highly...

Parents And Physicians Report Increased Concerns About Some Vaccines.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In the wake of recent publicity surrounding vaccine safety issues, parents and the physicians who treat their children are reporting more concern about some vaccines, and even refusing certain...

Higher Chickenpox Vaccination Rates Decrease Disease Even In The Unvaccinated.
May 22, 2001... 2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With more than 60% of children being vaccinated, the "vaccine has been administered to a high enough proportion of the children in the population that incidence of varicella disease has decreased...