TB & Outbreaks Week articles from November 2001

TB & Outbreaks Week archives from November 2001

Coinfection Increases HIV Replication.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Patients infected with HIV and tuberculosis display higher levels of viral replication at coinfection sites, according to researchers in the United States. ...

Chlorine Treatment May Be Insufficient To Protect Drinking Water.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Chlorine treatment of drinking water does not always eradicate mycobacterial populations, possibly putting people at risk for tuberculosis infection,...

Infliximab Can Increase Tuberculosis Risk.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - The monoclonal antibody infliximab may put patients at risk for tuberculosis infection, researchers in the United States warn. "Infliximab is a humanized...

New DNA-Based Vaccine Approach Protects Mice.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Ohio State University have shown that mice injected with fragments of DNA from anthrax bacteria can be immunized against the disease. In traditional vaccine approaches, researchers...

HIV Infected People Need Not Carry AIDS Virus Long Before Passing It On.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- People who contract HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can pass that virus on to others within a week or two of picking it up themselves, a new study conducted at the University of North Carolina at...

Study Will Try Smaller Vaccine Dose.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers are beginning a large new study to see if they can dilute the nation's small stockpile of smallpox vaccine to make it stretch farther in case of a bioterrorist attack. Fresh batches of...

Intermittent Streptomycin Doses May Increase Efficacy.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Colorado say that intermittent doses of the antibiotic streptomycin can maximize its effectiveness in treating tuberculosis. C.A. Peloquin...

BioPort Is Trying To Get FDA Approval For Manufacturing Vaccine.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The nation's only manufacturer of an anthrax vaccine planned to submit new documents to the federal government, trying to gain approval to distribute the vaccine. Lansing, Michigan-based BioPort...

Cure For Late Stage Anthrax Still Years Off.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The search for novel treatments to cure gravely ill victims of inhaled anthrax has taken on new urgency, but experts caution they are still probably years away from useful new medicines. The...

Experts Say Accurate Testing Can Be Difficult.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- It takes special testing and time to prove if anthrax or its harmless cousins are really in suspicious letters cropping up from Nevada to Capitol Hill - and frustrated anthrax experts say it's no wonder...

Drug-Resistant Pheumococcal Bacteria Increases With Overuse Of Drugs.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As the use of antibiotics known as macrolides increases in the United States, drug resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae (a bacteria that commonly causes pneumonia) have become more common,...

International Prohibition Of Biological Weapons Sought.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The American Medical Association (AMA) introduced a declaration at the October 2001, annual meeting of the World Medical Association (WMA) that condemns the research, development, production or use of...

America's Hospitals Are Ill Prepared To Meet Threat, Survey Says.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A survey of 30 hospitals in four states and Washington, DC, found them ill-equipped to handle a widespread biological disaster, researchers report. Emergency room workers at just one of the...

Avant Licenses Vaccine Technology To U.S. Department of Defense Contractor.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Avant Immunotherapeutics Inc. has signed a license agreement with DynPort Vaccine Co. LLC (DVC) for exclusive rights to use certain components of Avant's vaccine technology. Financial terms of the...

Bayer Triples Production Of Cipro Amid Anthrax Fear.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- After anthrax was found at NBC, Tom Brokaw held up a prescription bottle during a newscast and declared: "In Cipro we trust." On Capitol Hill, politicians lined up for the small white pills after a...

Public Health Executive Explores Making Vaccines Available To Public.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The executive director of the American Public Health Association, Mohammad N. Akhter, MD, MPH, has told a Senate committee that a national group of experts should be formed immediately to study the...

HygieniKit Protects Breast Milk From Bacteria and Viruses.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- There is good news for mothers who rely on electric breast pumps to provide breast milk to their babies. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviewed and cleared the claim that the patented...

Cerus, Baxter Report Inactivation of Trypanosoma Cruzi Parasite.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cerus Corp. and Baxter Healthcare Corp. announced preclinical data demonstrating the ability of Helinx technology to inactivate Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that causes a chronic and debilitating...

Antex To Continue DOD Grant Work On Gastrointestinal Vaccine.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antex Biologics, Inc. has announced it completed work funded by a U.S. Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant on the development of an oral microbead vaccine to protect U.S. troops against...

Chinese Newspaper Reports On HIV Infections Of 118 Villagers.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In an unusual official look at China's AIDS epidemic, a state newspaper has reported 118 people in one village contracted the virus while selling blood. At least 10 of those infected have developed...

Contaminated Flowers Produced Salmonella-Contaminated Fruit.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- If tomato flowers are exposed to Salmonella, the bacteria may invade and grow inside the tomato itself, say researchers from the University of Georgia and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. ...

Scientists Discuss How Biotechnology Could Be Used For Terrorism.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- After the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, the threat of using biological agents, in particular viruses and bacteria, to harm people is of great public concern. In the November...

Congress Willing To Increase Money For U.S. Centers For Disease Control.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In the normal yearly congressional balancing act of agency budgets and special projects, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) often found itself overlooked and underfunded. But...

Healthy People Urged To Postpone Immunization Until November.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New recommendations for influenza vaccination issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are now in effect, urging health care providers to prioritize vaccination of the elderly...

QuickVue Diagnostic Test Launched In Japan.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Quidel Corp.'s QuickVue influenza test product is now being sold throughout Japan by the company's exclusive Japanese distributor, Sumitomo Seiyaku Biomedical Co. Ltd., as the RapidVue Influenza A/B...

Pyrosequencing Expands Network of Collaborators for Infectious Diseases.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pyrosequencing AB's Molecular Diagnostics Business Unit (PYRO A) and Dr. Stuart C. Clarke of the Scottish Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory, Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, have agreed to...

Seven Deaths Reported In Mozambique Outbreak.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An outbreak of meningitis in northern Mozambique has killed seven people, state radio reports. The outbreak began about October 1, 2001, in the northern province of Nampula, about 350 kilometers...

T-Cell Surface Membranes Involved In Immune Response To Tuberculosis.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - The immune response to tuberculosis infection is partly mediated by T-cell surface membrane stimulation, researchers in England report. "Mycobacterium...

Antibiotic Reduces Oral Microflora In Mechanically Ventilated Patients.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the presentation of data from a positive Phase IIa clinical study of its antibiotic, iseganan hydrochloride oral solution. The purpose of this study was...

Study Examines How Prion Disease Adapts To New Species.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Although scientists believe that mad cow disease spread from cattle to people in a few instances in the United Kingdom, they know very little about how that happened. To better understand how diseases...

First Shipment Of Drugs Arrives In Moldova.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- World Health Organization (WHO) officials have confirmed the first shipment of life-saving tuberculosis (TB) drugs to the Republic of Moldova for the treatment of nearly 4000 TB sufferers. The...

Patients Die While Workers Strike Malawi's Largest Hospital.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scores of critically ill patients lay unattended on their beds in the tuberculosis ward at Malawi's largest hospital October 15, 2001, waiting to die. It had been 10 days since staff at Blantyre's...

Genome Therapeutics Licenses Ramoplanin From Biosearch Italia.
November 6, 2001... 2001 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genome Therapeutics has acquired the exclusive license in the United States and Canada for the novel antibiotic Ramoplanin, from Biosearch Italia S.p.A. (BIO.MI). Genome Therapeutics will immediately...

Boosting Interferon-Gamma Could Clear Legionella Infections Faster.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Patients infected with Legionella pneumophila, might clear the infection faster if given intrapulmonary treatments of interferon (IFN)-gamma gene therapy. ...

Putatively Important Enzymes Not Exported But Leaked.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States say that two proteins found at high levels in tuberculosis cultures may not be as vital as previously thought. "Glutamine...

Longer Treatment Recommended For Coinfected Patients.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Patients coinfected with tuberculosis and HIV have a heightened risk of tuberculosis relapse, researchers in the United States warn. "The optimal duration...

Research Bares Secrets Of Anthrax's Killer Toxin.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Two groups of researchers have discovered key features of how anthrax toxin destroys cells. In back-to-back papers in the journal Nature, investigators identify how one part of the toxin gets into...

New Research Shows That Pneumonia, Septic Shock Run In Families.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Dr. Richard Wunderink, Methodist Healthcare, Memphis, Tennessee, did not set out to be a researcher, but during his pulmonary and critical care fellowship training, frustration over why some patients...

CDC Releases Anthrax Guidelines.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The government has issued specific guidelines for treating anthrax, providing doctors a list of drugs beyond the sought-after antibiotic Cipro to help fight the infection. But the U.S. Centers for...

Specialist Unit Credited With Drop In Fatal Meningococcal Disease.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Deaths from meningitis among children have plummeted in southern England by almost 60% within five years, after the establishment of a specialist unit, reports research in the Archives of Disease in...

Yale Researchers Develop First Vaccine, Test In Animal Model.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Yale scientists have successfully immunized mice against West Nile virus, raising the possibility of developing a vaccine for humans against the potentially fatal, mosquito-borne infection. ...

Antibiotic Approved For Children At Risk For Repeat Infections.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- GlaxoSmithKline announced that Augmentin ES-600 (amoxicillin/clavulanate potassium) Powder for Oral Suspension is now available in drug stores throughout the United States. The availability of...

Advanced Biosystems Gets NIH Grant To Study New Medical Defenses.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Advanced Biosystems Inc., a subsidiary of Hadron Inc. (HDRN), has been awarded a grant by the National Institutes of Health to focus on very specific aspects of medical defenses against anthrax. ...

BioShield Responds To Inquiries About Antimicrobial Molecule Agent.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- BioShield Technologies Inc. (BSTI) has received inquiries from military departments and contractors regarding the use of its antimicrobial agent against anthrax. BioShield's microbiologists...

CDC Seeks Access To Vaccine Currently Reserved For Military Personnel.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Federal health officials are lining up access to the military's anthrax vaccine in case it's needed for a civilian who is allergic to antibiotics and thus needs some other protection after exposure to...

CEL-SCI Collaborates With Biomedex On Faster Diagnostic Test.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CEL-SCI Corp. (CVM) has signed a joint development agreement with Biomedex to develop and manufacture rapid anthrax human screening and and diagnostic tests. The deal brings together CEL-SCI, which...

Pantherix Names New Research Director.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- PanTherix Ltd., an emerging drug discovery company focused on the identification of novel anti-infectives, has appointed Christopher J. Latham, PhD, as research director. Dr. Latham brings extensive...

Mexico City Labs Sell, Swap Anthrax.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Two germ banks tucked away in the smog and sprawl of the hemisphere's largest city stock dozens of petri dishes filled with anthrax, the bacteria that have sparked a worldwide panic. But there are...

MicroDiagnosis Offers Technology To CDC In For Anthrax Investigations.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- MicroDiagnosis Inc. (MDi) has offered the use of its real-time pathogen detection technology to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the investigation into a spate of U.S....

Bio-Terrorism.Info Database and Weekly Report Launch Powered by NewsRx Artificial Intelligence Technology.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- NewsRx has leveraged its technology platform to create Bio-Terrorism.Info, a new database and weekly report. NewsRx is the leading provider of life science databases and daily and weekly health news....

Anthrax Detectors Being Developed By Navy.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A researcher working under an Office of Naval Research grant is just a couple of months away from completing a prototype detector designed to sound the alarm when airborne microbes such as anthrax are...

Grant Funds Search For Drug Against Smallpox.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- University of Minnesota scientist David Sherman rarely mentioned his project to others in his department, but suddenly his work with smallpox is water-cooler conversation. Sherman, 44, is one of a...

Printed Page Transmits Information, Not Anthrax.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An industry expert discredits the myth that anthrax can be transmitted by the printed page. In response to news stories that have chronicled fears that anthrax may be transmitted by any form of...

Researcher Says Air Cleaning System Destroys Anthrax, Other Pathogens.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An indoor air cleaning system originally developed to zap dust mites and mold spores also destroys airborne anthrax and other pathogenic microbes, says the University of Florida engineering professor...

Sandia Decontaminant Cleaning Up Anthrax Locations.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Federal authorities are using a decontamination formulation developed at the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories to help rid Capitol Hill buildings of...

Supercritical Water Oxidation Destroys Most Toxins.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As more cases of anthrax exposure are reported each day, concern over the United States' ability to protect itself from bioterrorism is greater than ever. While experts across the country work to...

Poor Oral Health Linked To Numerous Other Health Problems.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Want some life-saving advice? Ask your dental hygienist how gum disease promotes heart attacks, stroke, diabetes, and premature babies. That's the question dental hygienists want Americans to ask...

Flu Shots Important For People With Asthma.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Influenza can exacerbate asthma in children and adults, and now is the time for the nation's 17 million people with asthma to protect themselves with flu shots. The American Academy of Allergy,...

GlaxoSmithKline Enters Research Collaboration For New Therapies.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- GlaxoSmithKline, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) have agreed to collaborate in the development of new therapies for malaria. The research...

Maxygen Awarded $3.7 Million USAID Grant For Vaccine Research.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Maxygen Inc. has received a $3.7 million, three-year grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the research and development of a novel, broadly protective malaria...

Vaccine Fund Will Allow Research With Prime-Boost Technology.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The director of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative has announced a two-year, $1.5 million partnership for research and testing of a malaria vaccine. Dr. Regina Rabinovich said the Maryland-based...

Study: Men C Vaccine Is Safe For Infants.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A Men C vaccine, introduced into the United Kingdom immunization schedule two years ago is safe, with minimal side effects, reports a study in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Concerns were...

Mass Spectrometry Suitable For Mycolic Acid Measurement.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in France say that a form of mass spectrometry optimized for use with proteins provides a powerful tool for mycolic acid analysis. "Mycolic...

Tuberculosis Protein Believed To Be RNA Methyltransferase.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in India have provided new information about the function of a poorly understood tuberculosis protein. "Rv2118c belongs to the class of...

Tuberculosis-Infected Blood Cells Upregulate Cell Cycle Proteins.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Human monocytes infected with Mycobacteria tuberculosis display elevated expression of proteins that help regulate the cell cycle in damaged cells, researchers...

Genetics Or Infectious Agents? Chronic Diseases Revisited.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michelle Marble, senior medical writer - "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought (Albert Gyorgy)." Brian J. Balin, PhD, began his...

Infectious Agent Linked To Late-Onset, Sporadic Alzheimer Disease.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michelle Marble, senior medical writer - "We are in a new age of understanding," remarked Brian Balin, PhD, professor of pathology, microbiology, and immunology at the Philadelphia College of...

Ulcer Patients May Need Warning Against Use Of NSAIDs.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study of more than 4000 Medicare patients with peptic ulcers suggests many are not being warned against using pain relievers such as aspirin and ibuprofen, which can cause the ailment or make it...

West African States On Verge Of Eliminating Crippling Virus.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With polio cases at an all-time low in West Africa, 16 countries are renewing their commitment to eliminate the crippling virus as they launch a massive coordinated campaign aimed at reaching 80...

Whooping Cough Booster Vaccine To Be Given To Preschool Children.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The United Kingdom government is to introduce a preschool booster vaccination against pertussis (commonly known as whooping cough) from November 5, 2001, to reduce further illness and death from...

Drug Companies Respond On Smallpox Vaccine.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ten drug companies have responded to a government call for information on how the nation's vaccine makers could produce about 250 million doses of smallpox vaccine by the end of next year, federal...

UK Firm Spearheads Manufacture Of Modern Vaccine.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. health authorities have turned to a little-known British company to speed development of its first batch of modern vaccines for smallpox, a fatal virus far more infectious than anthrax. ...

New Global Plan To Stop Spread Of TB.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Warning the international community that tuberculosis is spreading globally at an alarming rate, a broad coalition known as the Stop TB Partnership, which includes the World Health Organization and the...

One Refugee Spawns 75 Virulent TB Cases On Island.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A virulent Beijing tuberculosis bacterial strain, one that was not previously identified on-site and that was brought in by a Liberian refugee in 1993, exploded into a "microepidemic" over a four-year...

Salmonella Germ May Hold Key To Effective Vaccine.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Salmonella germ that causes common food poisoning may hold the key to developing a vaccine that could eradicate typhoid fever, researchers say. Typhoid vaccines already exist but could be made...

Scientists Sequence Genome Of Bacterium Responsible For Infection.
November 13, 2001... 2001 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists from Britain, Denmark and Vietnam have deciphered the genetic code of the bacterium responsible for typhoid fever, Salmonella typhi. Their achievement, reported in the journal Nature,...

Alternate Sigma Factor Plays Key Role In Bacterial Stress Responses.
November 20, 2001... 2001 NOV 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States have identified a key regulatory gene in the protective stress responses of Mycobacteria tuberculosis. "SigH is an...

Antimicrobial Overuse Contributes To Acinetobacter anitratus Outbreaks.
November 20, 2001... 2001 NOV 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Indiscriminate use of antimicrobial agents was at least partly responsible for a series of nosocomial outbreaks in South Africa, researchers in that country...

Coinfection Does Not Appear To Augment TB Infectivity.
November 20, 2001... 2001 NOV 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Tuberculosis from patients coinfected with HIV is not usually more infective than tuberculosis from HIV negative patients, according to researchers in Italy....

Los Alamos Lab Is Doing Anthrax Study.
November 20, 2001... 2001 NOV 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Los Alamos National Laboratory, best known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb, is now conducting crucial biological detective work to solve the anthrax attacks wreaking havoc on the East Coast....

Researchers Discover Infectious Mechanism Common To Many Bacteria.
November 20, 2001... 2001 NOV 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have described the means by which many common bacteria that cause potentially fatal diseases - such as food poisoning, typhoid fever, plague and dysentery - infect...

Casual Infectious Contacts May Be Missed By Conventional Tracing Methods.
November 20, 2001... 2001 NOV 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Baltimore, Maryland, warn that conventional techniques for tracing the spread of tuberculosis can miss links between people infected after...

Isoniazid Hepatotoxicity Not Increased In Hepatitis C Patients.
November 20, 2001... 2001 NOV 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Liver damage associated with the tuberculosis drug isoniazid is not exacerbated in patients who are also infected with hepatitis or HIV, researchers say. ...

Bayer, HHS Complete Cipro Agreement.
November 20, 2001... 2001 NOV 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bayer Corp. has reached an agreement to supply up to 300 million tablets of Cipro to the U.S. government, and has donated 2 million tablets of Cipro to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...