TB & Outbreaks Week articles from September 2001

TB & Outbreaks Week archives from September 2001

Cidofovir Halts Nonmalignant Papillomavirus Infection.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The nucleotide analogue cidofovir may be a useful alternative to the current standard therapy for genital condylomata acuminata, according to a new report...

IL-6 Enhances Anti-B. burgdorferi Antibody Production.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Interleukin-6 (IL-6) has a previously unrecognized role in the protective response against Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogen responsible for Lyme disease,...

Vietnam Campaign Achieves Full Coverage For 83% Of Targeted Population.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A National Institutes of Health study has calculated the cost to fully immunize a Vietnamese population against cholera is US$0.91 per person and that there...

Astrovirus Second Most Common Cause Among Hospitalized Children.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Astrovirus should be considered in the differential diagnosis of hospitalized children with diarrhea, particularly if they are young and did not initially...

Method May Be Able To Identify New Infectious Diseases, Epidemics More Quickly.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A method called prospective surveillance, which studies unexplained illness and death due to possibly infectious causes, allowed for earlier detection of emerging and reemerging infections in 73% of...

Condom Carrying Does Not Translate To Condom Use In Adolescent Girls.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Adolescent girls who carry condoms are not necessarily using them - and not many girls are carrying them. R.J. DiClemente and colleagues in Atlanta and...

Second Influenza Vaccination Makes No Difference In Elderly Travelers.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Elderly travelers who are vaccinated against influenza before travel receive no additional benefit from a second vaccine 12 weeks later, researchers in...

Are We Letting Our Guard Down?
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) remains a real threat both globally and in the U.S., particularly in areas heavily populated by immigrants, the elderly, and the immunocompromised. ...

Adolescents And Young Adults At High Risk For Deadly Infection.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Adolescents and young adults have an unusually high risk of severe and sometimes fatal bacterial meningitis, according to a report in the August 8, 2001, issue of the Journal of the American Medical...

Enzyme-Based Process To Degrade Prions, Rapid-Detection Test Under Development.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genencor International (GCOR) and the United Kingdom's Centre for Applied Microbiology & Research (CAMR) announced they have signed an exclusive collaboration agreement to develop technology to...

DNA Plasmid Protects Mice From Lethal Challenge.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A DNA plasmid vaccine offers 70%-80% protection against highly mutational influenza virus strains in mice, researchers in Japan have found. "DNA...

Vaccine Achieves Protection When Delivered With MF59 Adjuvant.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A nonpathogenic variant of influenza A/Hong Kong/97 (H5N1) appears to be a good vaccine candidate against the virus when administered with MF59 adjuvant,...

Monotherapy May Be Suboptimal Treatment In Severe Cases.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patients with severe pneumococcal pneumonia including blood stream infection (bacteremia) who receive at least two antibiotic drugs within the first 24 hours after arriving at the hospital have a...

NIH Report Shows That Condoms Do Not Provide Safe Sex.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Condoms, long the mainstay of the safe-sex public health model, do not protect against the spread of nearly all sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), according to a benchmark report released by the...

National Minority AIDS Council To Government: Condom Report Is Dangerous.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) labeled as "misleading and dangerous" a report from the U.S. National Institutes of Health that suggests, in part, that condoms are not effective in the...

Intranasal Vaccine Demonstrates Safety, Immunogenicity.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new Shigella flexneri 2a vaccine delivered intranasally could offer as much protection as live vaccines already studied in humans and warrants further...

Climate Changes Linked To Higher Incidence Of TBE In Sweden.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A trend toward warmer winters and early springs in Sweden may have contributed to a rising incidence of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), researchers working...

Malaria Most Common Illness Among Returning Travelers.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - People traveling to Africa are six times as likely as other travelers to return with falciparum versus non-falciparum malaria, while those visiting Asia are...

Adult Symptoms Typify TB Presentation In Peruvian Children.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Pediatric patients from developing countries who present to the hospital for confirmation of tuberculosis diagnosis may have a different set of symptoms...

DOTS Strategy Could Modernize Treatment In Russia.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- There has been a resurgence of tuberculosis in Russia in the past decade, mainly due to the collapse of the health care infrastructure in the 1980s and early 1990s. Traditional Russian services for...

Drug Users With Low CD4(+) Counts At Greatest Risk For TB.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A lower cutoff for induration size is recommended among HIV patients being tested for tuberculosis, but in the case of drug users, only those with low...

Expanding Access To Treatment Fastest Way To Reduce Infection In Homeless.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The single most effective way to reduce future cases of tuberculosis among the homeless is making standard treatment more available to them, according to 10-year projections based on a computer...

Nested PCR Test Has Low Sensitivity For Pulmonary TB.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The diagnostic value of a nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) for identifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis is...

Sustained-Release Microparticles Address Potential Compliance Problems.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The use of sustained-release systems for drug delivery to tuberculosis patients could eliminate uncertainty about therapy compliance, researchers in India...

Blood Cultures Aid In Diagnosis But Not Immediate Clinical Management.
September 4, 2001... 2001 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Blood culture is often the only way to identify disseminated Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but turnaround times close to a month are not as helpful in...

Five Cases Per Week Signals Epidemic In Some Parts Of Africa.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Current surveillance for meningitis epidemics in Africa is falling short of the mark, and R. Lewis and colleagues in Uganda have established high-alert...

IL-10 Fails To Influence Long-term Course of TB Infection.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Interleukin (IL)-10, an immunoregulatory cytokine that inhibits T cell responses and may contribute to Mycobacterium avium infection, apparently does not...

Patients Susceptible To Pseudomonas Cross-Infection.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Two research letters in the August 16, 2001, issue of the Lancet provide new evidence that patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are susceptible to cross-infection, including superinfection, to the...

Acid-Fast Microscopy Methods Vary In Consistency, Even When Kits Are Used.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Clinicians should be aware of the method of acid-fast microscopy used and the laboratory proficiency in using it, when submitting samples for diagnostic...

IMS Beats Standard Methods For E. Coli Detection.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Immunomagnetic particle separation (IMS) is superior to standard cultivation in detecting pathogenic Escherichia coli strains on raw fruits and vegetables,...

New Drug Succeeds In First Animal Tests.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have designed a new drug for malaria that has easily passed the first stage of preclinical testing in mice and rats. Scientists announced their...

Physiological Lung Exclusion Can Be Useful Alternative To Resection.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - In cases of massive hemoptysis, lung resection is not always possible, and physiological lung exclusion may be more appropriate. Lung resection, the...

New York Hospital Cases Represented Fraction Of Actual Infections.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - An outbreak of West Nile virus in the summer of 1999 - the first reported in the Western hemisphere - resulted in 59 hospitalizations for...

Better Polio Vaccine Education Could Make Parents Partners In Choice.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Most parents want to have a hand in vaccine decision making, but when offered several choices in a study on polio vaccines options, a substantial number...

GLXA-directed Antibody Protects Mice From Human C. Trachomatis.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - An anti-idiotypic monoclonal antibody vaccine against chlamydia protects mice from infectious challenge with a human urogenital strain of Chlamydia...

Appropriate Vaccination Coverage Warranted In Elderly.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Community-acquired pneumonia has a high mortality rate among the elderly, and authors of a new report in Internal Medicine strongly encourage better...

Venezuelan Epidemic Highlights Spread Of Disease Throughout Americas.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Venezuela thought it had beaten dengue fever after spending millions of dollars on fumigation and prevention. But it was wrong. A new and dangerous epidemic of the mosquito-borne illness has...

Catnip Repels Mosquitoes More Effectively Than DEET.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers report that nepetalactone, the essential oil in catnip that gives the plant its characteristic odor, is about 10 times more effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET...

Pharyngeal TB Should Be Considered In Workup For Pharynx Lesions.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Patients who present with lesions of the pharynx may have pharyngeal tuberculosis, especially if they are from TB-endemic areas, researchers in Saudi...

M. paratuberculosis May Be The Missing Piece In Crohn's Puzzle.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The evidence for a mycobacterial role in the etiology of Crohn disease is mounting, but is not yet strong enough to confirm a link, according to a new...

First Case Of Cutaneous Anthrax Reported In The United States Since 1992.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A case report of human cutaneous anthrax was reported in the August 17, 2001, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. In the United States, the annual incidence of human anthrax declined from...

Low-Dose Treatment For Parasitic Infection Is Effective But Still Unaffordable.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Half the world's cases of visceral leishmaniasis, a serious parasitic infection, occur in India, but effective drugs remain prohibitively expensive. Yet researchers report that a short course, low...

Vaccine Could Have Prevented Four Of Five Cases In Young Adults.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The currently licensed meningococcal vaccine could have prevented 82.8% of invasive meningitis in Maryland young adults in the 1990s, epidemiologists there...

Ortho-phthalaldehyde Shows Strong Mycobactericidal Activity.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - New research confirms the mycobactericidal efficacy of a new high-level disinfectant, ortho-phthalaldehyde (OPA), and supports its use for the cleaning of...

Cost-Effective Regimens Offer Similar Protection.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Two postexposure rabies vaccine regimens recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) appear to have similar protective efficacy in an Indian...

BufferGel Prevents Pregnancy, STDs In Animal Models.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new spermicidal and microbicidal gel may have useful applications for the prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in humans. ...

Community Is Increasingly Common Source Of MRSA.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is increasingly becoming a community-acquired pathogen, researchers in Saudi Arabia report. "MRSA...

Cattle Identified As Source Of Ugandan Sleeping Sickness Outbreak.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A recent outbreak of sleeping sickness in eastern Uganda might be attributed to livestock movement from another part of the country where the disease is endemic, conclude authors of a study in the...

Intensive Treatment Turns The Tide For Most Drug-Resistant TB Patients.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Even patients who are infected with strains of tuberculosis that are resistant to several drugs can be cured, with careful oversight and tailored therapy,...

CDC Issues Rabbit Fever Warning.
September 11, 2001... 2001 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. health officials renewed their warnings about tularemia, a rare bacterial illness also called rabbit fever, that humans can contract from the carcasses of dead animals. Eleven people in...

DOD Says Will Develop Dangerous Strain For Vaccine Purposes.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Defense Intelligence Agency plans to develop small amounts of a potentially more potent variant of the bacterium that causes deadly anthrax, Pentagon officials said. "We plan to proceed''...

ABRA Protein Fragments Halt P. falciparum Growth.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The acidic basic repeat antigen (ABRA) of Plasmodium falciparum stops 80%-90% of parasite growth and represents a promising vaccine candidate, researchers in...

Drug Combination For Latent TB Infection Proves Deadly.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has investigated reports of 21 patients who were hospitalized because of severe liver injury associated with a two-month treatment regimen of...

Vancomycin Resistance Adds To Hospital Costs In Absence of Severe Illness.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Patients with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium are likely to incur higher hospital costs than those with vancomycin-susceptible E. faecium - but only...

GP Judgment Calls More Accurate Than Clinical Indicators For Diagnosis.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - When it comes to influenza, physician judgment is probably more helpful than reliance on clinical indicators for diagnosing influenza, researchers in Great...

New Vaccine Offers Good Protection In Animal Models.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new subunit vaccine against bubonic and pneumonic plague appears safe and effective in animal models, researchers in England report. If endorsed for...

WHO Reports Progress In Eradication In South-East Asia.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Since the World Health Assembly resolved in 1988 to eradicate poliomyelitis globally, the estimated number of polio cases worldwide has declined 99%. During 1994, member countries of the South-East...

Hot-Foot Syndrome Results From Pool Contamination.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A community pool colonized with Pseudomonas aeruginosa is responsible for an outbreak of painful foot lesions in children who waded there, report researchers...

Microbicide Shows Potential Against Herpes Simplex.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A vaginal microbicide shows promise in preventing transmission of herpes simplex and possibly other sexually transmitted diseases, researchers in Canada have...

Better Treatment Access, BCG Coverage Ease TB Burden In Homeless.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Access to treatment makes a big difference in determining the spread of tuberculosis among the homeless population in America, according to researchers working...

DOD Says Will Develop Dangerous Strain For Vaccine Purposes.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Defense Intelligence Agency plans to develop small amounts of a potentially more potent variant of the bacterium that causes deadly anthrax, Pentagon officials said. "We plan to proceed'' once...

CDC Investigates Possible Outbreak In Texas.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Six members of a Sanger family believed to be suffering from botulism ate hot dogs and chili at a Denton, Texas, church supper that investigators believe is the source of the illness. The six ate...

Number Of Cases Are Increasing In Singapore.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cases of the sometimes fatal mosquito-borne disease dengue fever have surged in Singapore, the Environment Ministry said. A total of 953 new dengue cases were reported in the three months from...

Michigan Identifies Infected Birds.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) Director Dan Wyant announced that Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus has recently been detected in three Kalamazoo County gray catbirds. The positive...

School Systems Prepare To Attack With A New Weapon.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- One of the nation's largest school systems is preparing for war when school opens in September 2001. The enemy is head lice. This year the mangy little critters can cost schools across the country...

Prisons Grapple With Boom In Cases.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- When Charles White was sentenced to prison in Oregon for robbery five years ago, he knew nothing about hepatitis C. It was only after his release in December that he found out he was infected with the...

LACK DNA Vaccine Induces Immunity But Not Protection Against L. donovani.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new vaccine is highly immunogenic against Leishmania donovani but cannot induce protection against visceral leishmaniasis (VL), report researchers in the...

Nonimmune Travelers Tolerate Atovaquone-Proguanil Better Than Mefloquine.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Use of atovaquone-proguanil in travelers to malaria-endemic countries may address concerns about the tolerability of mefloquine, the current drug prescribed...

Turkey Should Shore Up Coverage Of Young People.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Vaccination policy in Turkey should be changed to play catch-up in children and young adults who are currently at risk for measles, and should mandate a...

If Helicobacter Can't Swim, Infection May Be Halted.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The way in which bacteria sense chemicals in their environment could provide clues as to how they infect the stomach lining and ultimately cause stomach ulcers in some people, according to research by...

Study Investigates Man-Made Changes Linked To Malaria Transmission.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Guiyan Yan, PhD, assistant professor of biological sciences and an ecologist at the University at Buffalo, has received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine how...

AP Vaccine Safe And Immunogenic In Cincinnati Outbreak.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Hospital workers vaccinated against pertussis during a Cincinnati outbreak apparently were well-protected, proving that the vaccine can be immunogenic even in...

Ringworm Of The Scalp Is A Major Problem.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Almost a million children this year may be infected with a highly contagious disease called tinea capitis, also known as ringworm of the scalp - a fungal infection that is on the rise in the United...

Prolonged Outbreak Of Rare Serotype Reported In Denmark.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In Denmark, an unusually large number of patients have become infected with the otherwise rare Salmonella enterica serotype Bovis-morbificans. The Danish authorities first noted a rise in the...

Better Case Detection Averted 91,000 Deaths In Peru During 1990s.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - More effective detection and cure of tuberculosis in Peru prevented a large number of cases - including fatalities - during the 1990s, a new epidemiologic...

Molecular Epidemiology Uncovers Source Of Hospital Outbreak.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Epidemiologists have new DNA fingerprinting techniques to thank for their success in tracing the source of a tuberculosis outbreak at a Cuban psychiatric...

Nonspecialized Screening Of Immigrants Adequate But Not Ideal.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Immigrants to Italy from tuberculosis-endemic areas are more likely to complete screening procedures for TB if they report to a specialized TB clinic than a...

PhoP Gene Necessary For Growth, But Not Persistence, Of M. Tuberculosis.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The phoP gene plays an essential role in Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence but is not ultimately necessary for its persistence, researchers in Spain and...

Poverty Is Independently Associated With NYC Epidemic.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Although a resurgence of tuberculosis in New York City has been attributed to the AIDS epidemic and to large numbers of immigrants, poverty cannot be...

Short-Course Chemotherapy Can Work Well In Russia.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The short-course chemotherapy regimen recommended for tuberculosis by the World Health Organization (WHO) could help stem the rising tide of TB in Russia,...

France Sets Up Nationwide Surveillance Program.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- After the epizootic that occurred in the south of France (Petite Camargue area) last year, a seasonal West Nile (WN) virus surveillance system was set up in June 2001 to include human, equine, avian,...

Tetravalent Vaccine Protects Monkeys.
September 18, 2001... 2001 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A newly constructed chimeric vaccine against dengue virus/yellow fever achieves antibody levels in rhesus monkeys similar to those found in animals that...