TB & Outbreaks Week articles from October 2001

TB & Outbreaks Week archives from October 2001

Dried Plums Reinvented, May Be Used To Fight Bacteria.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With an opportunity for reinvention, the fruit that once cried, "I just want to be me," was given permission to label itself a dried plum. The industry was interested in changing the image of...

Tuberculous Pleurisy More Severe In HIV Positive Patients.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Patients infected with HIV face greater risks from tuberculosis-related lung inflammations than HIV negative patients, researchers in Uganda find. H. Luzze...

Children In Poor Countries More Likely To Present With Symptoms.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Pediatric tuberculosis patients living in poor countries with a high infection rate are more likely than other young patients to be symptomatic when they come...

Peripheral Blood PCR Tests Unsuitable For Tuberculosis Diagnosis.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Polymerase chain reaction assays do not provide an acceptable level of accuracy for tuberculosis tests when used with peripheral blood cells, researchers in...

CDC Warns That Rare Tick Virus Is Spreading In New England.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, warned of an extremely rare virus spread by ticks after three people in Maine and one in Vermont contracted encephalitis. Since last...

InterMune Carries Forward Work On MAb Compound.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- InterMune Inc. has agreed to develop a humanized monoclonal antibody targeted against the PcrV protein of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The monoclonal form of the antibody was developed by a...

Researchers Gain Insight Into Bacterium's Natural Resistance.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The secret of the tuberculosis bacterium's natural resistance to drugs may have been identified, opening up new targets for medicines, according to U.S. researchers speaking at the biannual meeting of...

Conventional Contact Tracing Inferior To Genetic Testing For Clusters.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Conventional methods of tracing the spread of tuberculosis should be validated against more accurate genetic analyses, researchers in Barcelona argue. ...

Dried Plums Reinvented, May Be Used To Fight Bacteria.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With an opportunity for reinvention, the fruit that once cried, "I just want to be me," was given permission to label itself a dried plum. The industry was interested in changing the image of its...

Outbreak In Chad Totals 3,557 Cases, With 113 Deaths.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As of September 4, 2001, the World Health Organization has reported a total of 3557 cases, including 113 deaths from a cholera outbreak in southwestern Chad, with a case-fatality rate of 3.2%. The...

Outbreak Spreads In South Korea.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- At least 106 people have been diagnosed with cholera in South Korea, including one patient in the country's populous capital of Seoul, health officials said. The outbreak began September 3, 2001,...

Chicken And Beef Are Often Contaminated With Feces.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new survey shows that 84% of adults have no idea that the primary source of Salmonella, Campylobacter, E. coli, and other foodborne pathogens on poultry and meat is animal feces. The survey of...

Genomics System Combats Deadly Bacterial Complications Of AIDS, Cystic Fibrosis.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Infectech Inc. (IFEC) has received a U.S. patent for its method for detecting and killing nontuberculous mycobacteria and Pseudomonas, both leading causes of death and suffering for 37 million...

Medarex And Genesto Collaborate To Develop Therapeutic Antibodies.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medarex Inc. expects to use its UltiMAb Human Antibody Development System to generate antibodies to infectious disease targets provided by Genesto A/S, in a collaboration to develop fully human...

Disease Outbreaks Reported In Norway.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As of September 4, 2001, the National Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway has reported a total of 19 cases (17 confirmed by urinary antigen detection and two probable cases) including two deaths in...

WHO Reports Elimination Goals Met In Africa.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The African Region of the World Health Organization has achieved the Organization's goal for leprosy elimination, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Ebrahim M. Samba, reported. "By the end...

Accelr8 And Xtrana Agree To Develop Platform For DNA Testing.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Accelr8 Technology Corp. (ACLY) and Xtrana Inc. (XTRN) have signed an agreement to jointly develop an advanced quantitative nucleic acid-based analytic platform for foodborne pathogen testing and other...

European Union Grants Ribavirin Patent To ICN Pharmaceuticals.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The European Union has granted ICN Pharmaceuticals (ICN) a new patent covering the manufacture of the drug ribavirin for medical treatment of three families of viruses, including the virus responsible...

Dormancy Insight Could Help Wipe Out The Disease.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New knowledge about the way tuberculosis-causing bacteria can survive in a dormant state for years in our bodies could pave the way for treatments that will finally wipe out this dread disease. ...

WHO Officials Calls For Closer Cooperation.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Government authorities in the Western Pacific region need better cooperation to combat problems such as smoking, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections, a World Health Organization official...

Epidemic Is Spreading, More Bird Confirmations In Michigan.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The presence of the West Nile Virus (WNV) has been confirmed in Detroit, Michigan. The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) and Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) verified that a...

Web Site Offers News, Statistics, Health, And Safety Information.
October 2, 2001... 2001 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued new warnings that the West Nile Virus has spread farther and faster this year than ever before, reaching nine states from...

Streptococcus pneumoniae Is Increasingly Resistant To Fluoroquinolones.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Streptococcus pneumoniae is the leading cause of community-acquired pneumonia, meningitis, and otitis media in the United States. Because of the emergence of antimicrobial resistance in pneumococci,...

Small Genetic Change Key To Flu Virulence.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A tiny change in one of the influenza virus's 10 genes is key to making certain strains of the virus especially virulent to humans, according to a report in Science (Hatta M. et al. "Molecular basis...

High Iron Intake Linked To Development.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - A high level of iron consumption can increase the risk of pulmonary tuberculosis infection, a particular concern for people living in developing areas of...

Peru Interventions Led To Dramatic Decline In Incidence, Mortality.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Europe and Peru say that intensive efforts to enhance tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment have saved tens of thousands of lives in that...

Mycobacterial Growth Indicator Tube Suitable For Use.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - The fully automatic BACTEC Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT) 960 system is a fast, simple, and accurate method for tuberculosis screening, according...

Genetic Analysis May Not Be Sufficient For Drug-Resistance Testing.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Tuberculosis gene analysis may not provide enough information to diagnose drug-resistant strains, researchers in South Africa warn. "The use of...

Antibody Diagnosis Not Reliable.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Antibody tests to distinguish tuberculous pleuritis from other forms of pleurisy are not clinically useful because of their low degree of accuracy,...

Three New Human Cases, No Deaths Reported.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The following report summarizes surveillance data for West Nile virus (WNV) infection reported to U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, through ArboNET and verified by states and...

Companies Expand Access To Nevirapine Donation Program.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Axios International announced that they will assist Boehringer Ingelheim to facilitate the implementation of their Viramune Donation Program for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (MTCT)...

Promising Preclinical Results With Immunotherapeutic Agent.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CEL-SCI Corporation presented a poster at the AIDS Vaccine 2001 Congress held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania entitled "C Clade HGP-30 (p17 aa 86-115) Based Peptide Conjugates as Potential Therapeutic...

No Solution In Sight For Shortage Of Vaccine For Military Personnel.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The prospect of a major U.S. military campaign against terrorism comes as the Pentagon grows ever closer to running out of vaccine for the deadly anthrax virus. Pentagon officials declined to...

Suspected Case Of Mad Cow Disease Found In Japan.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Japan may have Asia's first case of mad-cow disease, the government has announced. The government cited tainted feed from Europe as a possible cause. Initial tests on the brain of a cow in...

Cubist Pharmaceuticals Completes Enrollment In Cidecin Phase III Trial.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patient enrollment has been completed in the first of two pivotal Phase III trials investigating the safety and efficacy of Cidecin (daptomycin for injection) in the treatment of community-acquired...

Macau Health Officials Confirm 415 Cases.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Macau health officials confirmed that the number of people infected with dengue fever has sharply risen to 415, since 14 people in the gambling enclave were first stricken by the mosquito-borne...

Outbreak In Maui First Cases In Hawaii In 50 Years.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Health officials confirmed that four people on Maui contracted dengue fever over the summer, the first cases of the mosquito-borne disease in Hawaii in more than 50 years, state officials said. ...

HIV Patients Coinfected With HGV Show Increased Survival.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genelabs Technologies, Inc. said that two recently published reports show patients infected with both the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and GB virus C (GBV-C, also known as hepatitis G virus or...

New Antibiotic Receives FDA Approval.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc. announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a new cephalosporin antibiotic, Spectracef (cefditoren pivoxil). Spectracef...

New Drug Treats Diarrhea Caused By Giardia intestinalis In Children.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A clinical trial found that a 3-day course of treatment with nitazoxanide pediatric suspension was as effective as a longer 5-day course of metronidazole suspension in treating diarrhea caused by...

Mesquitoes Are Not Likely Vector For Virus.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Contrary to previous reports, mosquitoes may not be able to transmit the hepatitis C virus (HCV), say researchers from two universities in Taiwan. They report their findings in the September 2001...

Multinational Pivotal Trial For Inhaleable Therapy Initiated.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- This therapy utilizes the Inhance pulmonary delivery technology, a proprietary drug delivery solution from Inhale Therapeutic Systems, Inc., Aventis Behring's development partner. "We will be...

Phase I Study Of Topical Gel For Treatment Of Genital Warts Initiated.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Origenix Technologies, Inc. announced that an investigational new drug application (IND) has been filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for ORI-1001, a topical gel for the treatment...

Elderly Black Patients Less Likely To Get Flu Vaccination.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- While the rate of influenza vaccination is higher for Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in managed care plans, racial disparity in vaccination is not reduced, according to an article in the September...

Sri Lankan Military, Tamil Rebels Call Truce For Vaccination Program.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sri Lanka security forces and Tamil rebels have agreed to cease hostilities for four days to facilitate the immunization of children against polio in areas characterized by heavy fighting in Sri...

Cholera, Diphtheria, Typhoid Protein Targets Discovered.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists from the University of Birmingham, England, have identified dozens of new target proteins thought to be involved in the disease processes of a range of bacterial infections. These...

FDA Requests More Information From Aviron On FluMist.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aviron has received a complete response letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting additional information and clarification regarding clinical and manufacturing data from the...

Recombinant Flu Virus Responsible For Lethality Of 1918 Pandemic.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists from Australian National University (ANU) have detected evidence of an event that probably triggered the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The evidence is in the genetic data of the influenza...

CEL-SCI Corporation Extends Agreement With U.S. Navy For Vaccine Collaboration.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CEL-SCI Corporation announced that its Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) of the U.S. Navy to jointly develop a malaria vaccine...

Cases Of Whooping Cough Increase In Texas' Rio Grande Valley.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The number of cases of whooping cough in the Rio Grande Valley have nearly doubled since last year, according to Texas health officials. There were 24 cases of whooping cough, a highly...

Outbreak Associated With Unchlorinated Wading Pool.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Health officials report that an outbreak of Shigellosis in Iowa has been traced to an unchlorinated wading pool. In June (2001), local physicians reported 11 cases of diarrhea to a county...

Immtech Announces Start of Phase II DB289 Trials.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Immtech International, Inc., has announced that a Phase II study of DB289 for the treatment of African sleeping sickness (Trypanosomiasis) has begun in Angola, Africa. The study is supported by...

Philadelphia Zoo Issues Mosquito Update.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mosquito populations at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Zoo continue to be monitored by the Philadelphia Department of Health. An analysis of mosquito traps located throughout the Zoo indicate...

WHO Launches Urgent Appeal For $2.9 Million To Cover Abidjan Epidemic.
October 9, 2001... 2001 OCT 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched an urgent appeal for U.S. $2.9 million to cover the cost of a mass immunization campaign in response to a potentially disastrous outbreak of yellow...

Diabetes, Cyclosporine Use Are Risk Factors For Posttransplant Tuberculosis.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in India have identified some of the factors that put kidney transplantation patients in danger of potentially deadly postoperative tuberculosis....

Single-Stage Decompression Surgery Effective.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers specializing in spinal injury say that single-stage decompression surgery with fusion, although difficult to perform, is an effective treatment for...

Italian Prevention Guidelines Effective, But Underused.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - A program for preventing and treating AIDS- and HIV-related tuberculosis in Italy is effective, but physicians and patients need to adhere more stringently to...

Antiviral Peptides Potentially Useful Against STDs.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a surprising find, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have uncovered the antiviral properties of an obscure class of peptides that may someday provide a powerful way to curb the...

Immune Response Includes Matrix Metalloproteinase Production.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Part of the body's response to infection with mycobacteria such as M. tuberculosis is the release of matrix metalloproteinases, which may explain tissue damage...

Illnesses Associated With Use Of Plant Growth Regulator.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- During January-February 2001, eight cases of acute illness in the county of Ragusa, Italy, were reported to the Italian National Institute for Health (INIH) by the Milan Poison Control Center (MPCC)...

Total of 34 Cases, 2 Fatalities Reported In Hispaniola, Dominican Republic.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- From July 12, 2000, through September 18, 2001, a total of 21 cases of poliomyelitis (including two fatal cases) were reported from the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, divided between Haiti and the...

Case In Florida Appears To Be Isolated Event.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Florida State Department of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control are investigating a confirmed case of anthrax in a 63-year-old male Florida resident, but so far this appears to be an...

Oral Piercings Gaining Popularity.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- From the chin to the cheeks, tongue and everything in between, millions of young people are expressing their individuality with oral piercings. However, self-expression comes at a hefty cost for...

Emergency Officers Meet To Discuss Options.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With added urgency, emergency officers from across the country are meeting with terrorism experts to discuss ways to respond to a possible new wave of attacks, including assaults with chemical or...

Experts: United States Is Unprepared For Germ Attack.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Stashed in secure government warehouses around the country are 400 tons of antibiotics and other medical supplies ready for what seemed until a month ago to be an unimaginable catastrophe - a terrorist...

Learn Ways To Protect Your Family.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The threat of bioterrorism is on the minds of many parents. To address those concerns, PKIDs (Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases) and medical and public health specialists make these...

Want to Give Blood? First See If You Are Eligible.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) is urging potential blood donors to review their personal medical history and other factors before heading to the nearest blood collection center....

Survey Shows Patients May Be Suffering Needlessly.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- People living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - an umbrella term that includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis that decreases airflow in and out of the lungs - may be suffering...

Clinical Development Grant Supports Mucoregulator Therapy Research.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genaera Corporation announced September 24, 2001, the award of up to $1.7 million from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to develop an innovative new drug, Lomucin, that inhibits the excess production of...

Phase III Data Suggests Antibiotic Is Better Than Standard Therapy.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. released clinical results September 24, 2001, expanding on data published in the 41st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) abstracts....

Earlier Culling Would Have Dramatically Reduced Epidemic.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The United Kingdom's recent foot and mouth epidemic could have been "substantially reduced in scale had the most efficient control measures been rigorously applied earlier." So concluded professor...

Phase III Clinical Trial Launched In Europe And U.S.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Discovery Laboratories, Inc. announces the initiation of patient enrollment in a supportive Phase III multinational clinical trial evaluating Surfaxin (lucinactant) for the prevention and treatment of...

Plexus Vaccine Licenses Molsoft To Develop Proprietary Virtual Epitope Databases.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Plexus Vaccine Inc. and Molsoft LLC have entered into a key licensing agreement to discover and commercialize new interventional strategies for global infectious diseases, for drug-resistant microbes,...

Aventis Pasteur To Complete Flu Vaccine Shipments By November.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aventis Pasteur, the nation's leading supplier of influenza vaccine, says it anticipates shipping all influenza vaccine orders to customers by the end of November (2001). Smaller customers were...

Long-Acting Bronchodilator Moves Into Pivotal Studies.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sepracor, Inc. announced September 19, 2001, that (R,R)-formoterol inhalation solution has advanced into Phase III studies for the treatment of bronchospasm in patients with obstructive airway disease....

Chemical, Biotech Firms Strengthen Security Against Bioterrorism.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chemical and biotechnology companies are scrambling to improve security to keep their potentially deadly products away from terrorists. New security rules range from the general - a survey of...

LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals Collaborates With NIH To Develop Mucosal Vaccine.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals Inc. has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for the development and...

Aventis, ViroPharma Form U.S. Collaboration For Drug Against Common Cold.
October 16, 2001... 2001 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aventis Pharmaceuticals, the U.S. pharmaceutical company of Aventis Pharma AG, and ViroPharma Inc. have formed a collaboration to codevelop and copromote ViroPharma's Picovir (pleconaril) in the United...

Extrapulmonary Infection Can Present Extra Challenges.
October 23, 2001... 2001 OCT 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - AIDS patients coinfected with extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) are likely to have different clinical profiles than patients presenting with pulmonary...

Normal Washing Insufficient For Transmission Prevention.
October 23, 2001... 2001 OCT 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Normal and even intense bronchoscope cleaning is not thorough enough to prevent tuberculosis infection, researchers in Germany warn. "The transmission of...

New York Epidemic Linked To Poverty.
October 23, 2001... 2001 OCT 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States say that income, more than ethnicity or HIV status, is the key variable public health workers should use to determine where to...

Interferon-(gamma) Restrains Immune Response.
October 23, 2001... 2001 OCT 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States and Europe say that interferon (IFN)-(gamma) plays an important but unexpected role in controlling tuberculosis infection. ...

Sparfloxacin Affects Mycobacterial Cell Envelope.
October 23, 2001... 2001 OCT 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - The antibiotic sparfloxacin has a more diverse range of action on mycobacteria (including tuberculosis) than previously realized, according to researchers in...

New Multidrug Resistant Strain of Escherichia coli Has Emerged.
October 23, 2001... 2001 OCT 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new strain of Escherichia coli bacteria accounted for 38% to 50% of the drug-resistant forms of urinary tract infections in women from three distinct regions in the United States, according to a new...