TB & Outbreaks Week articles from November 2004

TB & Outbreaks Week archives from November 2004

Oligonucleotide array technology rapidly detects foodborne pathogenic bacteria.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Oligonucleotide array technology rapidly detects foodborne pathogenic bacteria. According to a study from China, "A rapid and accurate method for detection for common pathogenic bacteria in...

Persistence of hepatitis C virus associated with human leukocyte antigen class 1.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Persistence of hepatitis C virus is associated with human leukocyte antigen class 1. According to recent research published in the journal Human Immunology, "The aim of this study was to define...

Antigenically and genetically similar influenza C viruses in Japan characterized.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antigenically and genetically similar influenza C viruses isolated in Japan have been characterized. According to recent research from Japan, "Between October 1999 and May 2000, a total of 28...

Nosocomial meningitis outbreak caused by Acinetobacter baumannii.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A nosocomial meningitis outbreak was caused by Acinetobacter baumannii. "An outbreak of nosocomial meningitis caused by Acinetobacter baumannii, which developed postoperatively in seven...

Providing SARS infection control information to outpatients increases compliance.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Providing SARS infection control information to outpatients increases their compliance for continued outpatient visits. According to recent research from Japan, "To examine the effect of provision...

HIV-1 superinfections assessed by autologous heteroduplex mobility.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have assessed HIV-1 superinfections in a cohort of commercial sex workers in Burkina Faso by an autologous heteroduplex mobility procedure. In a recently published article, scientists in...

Multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak occurred in surgical room.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Multi-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak occurred in a surgical room in Germany. "Outbreaks of Acinetobacter baumannii demonstrating multiple antibiotic resistance, including meropenem...

Membrane Cofactor Protein identified as adenovirus receptor.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Membrane Cofactor Protein is identified as the adenovirus receptor. "A tandem mass spectrometry-based approach is demonstrated for detecting a receptor for Ad37, one of the causative agents for...

Study of primary care doctors' response to 2001 attacks shows prudent care.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Primary care physicians working only blocks away from the New York City anthrax attacks of October 2001 acted responsibly and rationally in the midst of the crisis, according to New York-Presbyterian...

Synthetic zeolites used for arsenate removal from pollutant water.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Synthetic zeolites are used for arsenate removal from pollutant water. "Arsenic is known to be a hazardous contaminant in drinking water that causes arsenical dermatitis and skin cancer. In the...

Swedish company presents mass screening tests at investment conference.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Swedish blood diagnostics company LifeAssays Inc. presented its mass screening and point-of-care tests on Oct. 21 at the Windhover Information and Medtech Insight's "Investment In Innovation" Event, at...

NIH grants awards for the development of human antibody against anthrax.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medarex (MEDX) announced that it has received two grants from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to support Medarex's research and development of MDX-1303, a fully...

Chiron announces blood-screening licensing agreement.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chiron Corp. (CHIR) has granted a nonexclusive license to the blood transfusion centers of the German Red Cross (Blutspendediensten des Deutsche Rotes Kreuz, or DRK) for use of the company's HIV-1 and...

Clinical bovine mastitis diagnosed in a Prototheca zopfii outbreak.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Clinical bovine mastitis was diagnosed in a Prototheca zopfii outbreak. According to a study from Brazil, "Biopsy by fine needle aspiration together with microbiological examination and scanning...

Raf kinase expression increases mortality of influenza-infected mice.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Lung-specific expression of active Raf kinase results in increased mortality of influenza A virus-infected mice. According to published research from Germany, "Alterations in signaling via the...

T. cruzi downregulates apoptotic genes in BALB/c fibroblasts.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Trypanosoma cruzi suppresses the expression of apoptotic genes in fibroblasts from BALB/c mice. "Parasites have been shown to up- and downregulate host apoptosis, most likely facilitating their...

Porcine circovirus type 2 from pigs was in Croatia detected and characterized.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Porcine circovirus type 2 from pigs was in Croatia was detected and characterized. According to a study from Croatia, "Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) from the Circoviridae family has recently been...

E-mail surveys assist investigation and response in conjunctivitis outbreak.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- E-mail surveys can assist the investigation and response in a conjunctivitis outbreak. "A conjunctivitis outbreak affecting more than 200 individuals occurred on a university campus in Evanston,...

SEEK1 polymorphisms not associated with Crohn disease in Newfoundland.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- SEEK1 polymorphisms that are associated with psoriasis are not associated with Crohn disease in Newfoundland. "Crohn's disease (CD) is an inflammatory bowel disease that is likely the result of an...

Mucoid P. aeruginosa lipotoxins underlie inflammation.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pseudomonal lipotoxins underlie pulmonary inflammation in cystic fibrosis (CF). "The main cause of the high morbidity and mortality" in CF patients "is the progressive lung inflammation associated...

HIV diagnostic proves effective in Dominican Republic trials.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medical Services International (MSITF) announced that it has completed a series of testing of its VScan HIV 1&2 rapid test kit in the Dominican Republic, and the results showed 100% accuracy in terms of...

Chinese CDC attends HIV/AIDS training seminar.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Diagnostic test developer MedMira Inc. (MMIRF) announced a series of technical training seminars in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the People's Republic of China. These...

arsC genes identified/quantitated in environmental samples by real-time PCR.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- arsC genes in environmental samples were identified and quantitated by real-time PCR. "The arsC gene is responsible for the first step in arsenate biotransformation encoding the enzyme arsenate...

Older women's knowledge of HIV is lacking, study finds.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Age is no defense against AIDS. Women aged 50 and older are living longer and remain sexually active, yet many lack appropriate knowledge about HIV transmission and prevention, according to recent...

Microencapsulation improves safety and efficacy of amphotericin B.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Microencapsulation improves the safety and efficacy of amphotericin B (AMB). In a recent study from Spain, "[h]ydrophilic albumin microspheres" were evaluated for use as "a new delivery system" for...

Emerging pathogen suggests amphibian trade should be closely monitored.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An emerging pathogen in an introduced amphibian species suggests that the amphibian trade should be closely monitored. "Chytridiomycosis is an emerging fungal disease of amphibians responsible for...

County officials in Oklahoma look for cause of infections.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Health officials in Oklahoma's Johnston and Caddo counties are trying to the determine source of about 40 cases of staph infection that have affected residents in several cities. The infections are...

Diagnostics firm secured new funding to develop new sensor technology.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Diagnostic systems developer LabNow, Inc., announced that it has raised $14 million in equity financing from a syndicate of private and venture investors led by George Soros, with the participation of...

Food-borne illness strikes at least 2 billion people a year.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- At least 2 billion people a year get sick from contaminated food, and the number is growing, according to United Nations (U.N.) health agencies. Illness from food-borne disease, which can lead to...

Scientists have bionanotechnology recipe to find elusive bacteria.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A team of University of Florida (UF) researchers has created tiny hybrid particles that can speedily root out even one isolated E. coli bacterium lurking in ground beef or provide a crucial early...

Comparative study of Legionnaire's disease published.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A team at the Institut Pasteur associated with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and in collaboration with the National Reference Center for Legionella in Lyon, has compared the...

TNF-TNFR super-family gene SNPs associated with immune-mediated disease.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Tumor necrosis factor-TNF-receptor super-family gene single nucleotide polymorphisms are associated with immune-mediated disease. "The tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and TNF receptor (TNF-TNFR)...

Debate-guidelines for glycopeptide-resistant enterococci control have not worked.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The debate-guidelines for glycopeptide-resistant enterococci control have not worked. "Glycopeptide-resistant enterococci (GRE) have become a focus of concern in many countries because options for...

Group B rotaviruses have been circulating in Western India since 1993.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Group B rotaviruses have been circulating in Western India since 1993. According to a study from India, "Generally, group A rotaviruses are the most common cause of pediatric diarrhea. However,...

HIV-1 non-B subtypes from heterosexual transmission predominate in Scotland.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HIV-1 non-B subtypes acquired from heterosexual transmissions predominate in Scotland. According to a study from Scotland, "Historically, subtype B viruses in men who have sex with men (MSM) and...

South Africa needs more nurses as HIV/AIDS infections among healthcare workers rise.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study by a South African medical journal warned that the country needs more nurses as the number HIV/AIDS infections rises among healthcare workers. The report published in the October edition of...

New lead in quest to protect women from sexual HIV transmission.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have long sought a vaginal gel that women could apply before sex to block the AIDS virus. Now they've found a new lead, a chemical specially designed to thwart the way HIV penetrates women's...

Peer program teaches inmates about HIV/AIDS.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Harold Omar Hill has a method to persuade new prisoners at David Wade Correctional Center in Louisiana, to take an HIV test. "If you're sick inside a prison, you'll do hard, hard time," the...

Primary hotline questions in Netherlands regard HIV transmission/risk/testing.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Primary AIDS hotline questions in the Netherlands regard HIV transmission, HIV risk and HIV testing. According to recent research from the Netherlands, "AIDS telephone hotlines have an important...

U.N. warns Africa to brace itself for the AIDS time bomb.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Africa must brace itself for an AIDS time bomb as 8,000 people are infected with HIV a day in the region worst hit by the pandemic, the United Nations warned. Seventy percent of the 45 million...

Africans give their governments poor marks on evaluation.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Africans gave their governments poor marks in a landmark scorecard on the way officials run 28 of the continent's nations, a senior U.N. official said. Corruption, poor tax systems and dilapidated...

Former Maryland Governor wants public registry for people with AIDS.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Maryland should establish a public registry for people with AIDS to help stop its spread because "other methods of prevention aren't working," Comptroller William Donald Schaefer said. "People...

HIV-positive Russians detained during protest in western city.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- About a dozen HIV-positive Russians were detained in the western city of Kaliningrad after chaining themselves to the city hall building to protest the state's alleged failure to provide them with...

Health workers confirm Wisconsin's first flu case of the season.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The flu bug has arrived in Wisconsin, where health experts said they have confirmed the first case of the season. Laboratory tests found a Waupaca County woman had the state's first influenza case,...

Disinfection, and sterilization adherence reduce hospital-related infections.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Disinfection and sterilization adherence reduce contaminated hospital instrument-related infections. According to an article in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, "All invasive procedures...

Acanthamoeba triggers cell cycle arrest in host cells.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Acanthamoeba triggers cell cycle arrest in host cells. "Acanthamoeba can cause fatal granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE) and eye keratitis," microbiologists in England explained. "However, the...

Company awarded SIBR grant for infectious disease detection.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Meridian Bioscience (VIVO) announced that it has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). This Phase I Grant will...

Bacterium causes U.S. flu vaccine shortage.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The reddish bacterium to blame for this year's shortage of flu vaccine has a colorful history. Until the 1960s, Serratia marcescens was considered harmless - so safe, in fact, that the military...

Disease management company to offer viral antidote to U.S. during flu season.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- GenoMed, Inc., (GMED) announced that it will offer its patent-pending broad spectrum viral antidote to the U.S. during the coming flu season this fall and winter. Because of difficulties that a...

Drug-DNA combination could offer longer-lasting, more efficient flu vaccine.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Research from Sweden suggests that adding the drug tucaresol to plasmid DNA influenza vaccines could offer longer-lasting and more efficient protection against the influenza virus. Annual flu...

Experts: Good hygiene can ward off flu.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The wisdom mothers have been dispensing for ages - wash your hands, eat your vegetables, go to bed earlier - turns out to be great advice for avoiding the flu. Doctors and nutritionists say careful...

Study to test flu shot and nasal spray flu vaccine side by side.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A University of Michigan (U-M) influenza expert is beginning a 3-year direct comparison of the effectiveness of flu shots vs. nasal spray flu vaccine. Flu shots have been around since World War II,...

Thirty million doses of influenza vaccine shipped to healthcare providers.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aventis (AVE), part of the sanofi-aventis Group, announced that the company has shipped more than 30 million doses of its influenza vaccine, Fluzone, Influenza Virus Vaccine, for the upcoming season....

U.S. CDC urges high-risk groups to get vaccinated, healthy people to wait.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The loss of vaccine from Chiron Corp. has created a challenging situation for the United States vaccine supply going into this year's influenza season. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

U.S. funding granted for new influenza drug.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Biota Holdings Limited announced that the U.S. government, via the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), had awarded...

Cost of flu vaccine rising as supply dwindles.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Some drug distributors are taking advantage of the country's dwindling flu vaccine supply by raising prices for the medicine to up to 10 times its normal cost. Several distribution companies, which...

Health officials ask for corporate donations in Oklahoma.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Oklahoma Health Department officials want private companies to donate unused influenza vaccine so high risk groups can be immunized. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and...

Hospital visit prevention by influenza vaccine during pregnancy studied.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Influenza vaccination during pregnancy did not appear to prevent hospitalization or outpatient visits for respiratory illness in pregnant women and their infants. "The Advisory Committee on...

Influenza Shot-Gouging: With scarce supplies of flu shots, prices go up, way up.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Jack Bond's hospital pharmacy needed 2,800 flu shots, but his supplier couldn't provide them. Plenty of other distributors were ready to meet his needs, though, for a price: as much as $600 for a vial...

Remaining flu shots directed to high-risk patients.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The federal government moved to direct scarce remaining flu shots straight to pediatricians, nursing homes and other places that care for the patients who need them most. But only a fraction of the...

Vaccine failure underscores antiquated productions system.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The crisis in the flu vaccine supply in the United States has led to renewed calls to modernize a half-century-old manufacturing system that relies on millions of chicken eggs and a lot of educated...

With shortage of flu vaccine, bioterrorism drill becomes more real.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The national shortage of flu vaccine has brought a bioterrorism drill planned for southeastern Colorado a lot closer to reality. Healthcare workers in 9 rural counties will go ahead with plans to...

Influenza B virus lacks sequence homology to influenza A virus antigenic sites.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Influenza B virus lacks sequence homology to influenza A virus antigenic sites. According to a study from the United States, "Mitogenic activity of UV-inactivated influenza viruses in cord blood...

Scientists meet to work on strategy to fight global viruses.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than 300 scientists from around the world shared information on tracking and curbing the cross-border spread of viruses as they met in India. "Emerging infections have taken center stage, not...

Officials probe Cherokee County outbreak of Legionnaire disease.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A rare cluster of cases of Legionnaires disease in Cherokee County, North Carolina, has resulted in two deaths in the past 2 months and attracted state and federal health officials to investigate. ...

Unique Leptospira strain isolated from patient with pulmonary hemorrhage.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A unique Leptospira strain was isolated from a patient with pulmonary hemorrhage in the Andaman Islands. "Leptospirosis is endemic in the Andaman Islands, often occurring as outbreaks during the...

New biosensor rapidly detects deadly food-borne pathogen.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The pathogen responsible for a precooked chicken recall last summer will become easier to detect in ready-to-eat meats, thanks to a new biosensor developed by scientists at Purdue University. A...

Estrogen plays a critical role in female hepatocarcinogenesis.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Estrogen plays a critical role in female hepatocarcinogenesis. According to researchers in Japan, "Estrogen has been related to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). "In this...

Treatment with anti-neutrophil mAb hastens development in mice.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Treatment with an anti-neutrophil antibody hastens the development of Lyme arthritis in mice. In a previous study, immunologists in the United States "demonstrated that blocking the entry of...

Two spermidine analogues show moderate in vitro inhibition, ineffective in vivo.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Two spermidine analogues show moderate in vitro inhibition but were ineffective in in vivo murine model. "In the present study," researchers in Germany report, "we have tested the effect of...

New malaria vaccine has promising test results.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have made important progress in the quest for a malaria vaccine, showing for the first time that childhood shots can prevent nearly one-third of cases and slash the risk of severe,...

Antibodies to P. vivax protein studied in malaria-exposed subjects.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have investigated the HLA class II and antibody responses to circumsporozoite protein repeats of P. vivax in individuals naturally exposed to malaria. According to recent research...

Molecular analysis of antibody response to malaria sporozoite reported.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists report the results of a molecular dissection of the human antibody response to the structural repeat epitope of Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite from a protected donor in a recent issue of...

Quantitative PCR used to test vaccines in human experimental malaria.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have performed a statistical analysis of malaria parasitemia measured by a quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. "Clinical trials are an essential step in evaluation of safety...

Domestic clones of N. meningitidis circulated in meningococcal disease outbreak.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Domestic clones of Neisseria meningitides were circulated in the 2001 meningococcal disease outbreak. "The annual incidence of meningococcal disease (meningitis and septicemia) in Taiwan was...

Invasion of CNS by cryptococcal yeast cells characterized.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The invasion of the central nervous system by cryptococcal yeast cells has been characterized. "Cryptococcal meningoencephalitis develops as a result of hematogenous dissemination of inhaled...

Novel method assesses DNA damage after exposure to benzo(a)pyrene.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A novel method is used to assess DNA damage after exposure to benzo(a)pyrene. According to recent research from Spain, "Genotoxins present in the aquatic environment are often associated with the...

HLA haplotypes associated with myasthenia gravis.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HLA haplotypes are associated with myasthenia gravis. "The nature and intensity of the association of myasthenia gravis (MG) with distinct human leukocyte antigens (HLA) haplotypes differ between...

M. haemocanis infection prevalence higher in kennel-raised than pet dogs.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mycobacterium haemocanis infection prevalence is higher in kennel-raised dogs than in pet dogs. "Mycoplasma haemocanis (formerly Haemobartonella canis) is a red blood cell parasite that causes...

Catheter-related infections in European hospitals characterized.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The features of catheter-related infections in European hospitals have been characterized. According to researchers in Spain, the "laboratory workload, microbiological techniques and etiology of...

Malnutrition is an independent risk factor.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Malnutrition is an independent predictor of nosocomial infections (NI). Researchers in France conducted a study "to determine if malnutrition, measured using a simple validated score, is an...

U.S. defense department provides $4.9 million for pathogen research tool.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech has received $4.9 million in additional funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for the PathPort (Pathogen Portal) project, which...

Change in polio vaccine policy eliminates cases of vaccine-associated polio.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A change in the U.S. polio vaccination policy has led to the elimination of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP), according to a new study. The last case of poliomyelitis (polio) in...

Yeast prions not involved in transcriptional activity.
November 2, 2004... 2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Yeast prions are not involved in transcriptional activity. "Amyloid deposits are associated with numerous human diseases," scientists in the United States explained. "The [URE3] prion of...