AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Vaccine Protects Against Array Of HIV Strains.(Brief Article)
2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
VaxGen, Inc. (VXGN) presented laboratory data at a scientific conference indicating that the company's HIV/AIDS vaccine induces immune responses capable of preventing infection from a broader array of HIV strains than previously thought.
This represents new evidence that the vaccine, AIDSVAX, may be effective against HIV strains found in nature, also known as primary isolates, or "wild type" strains, the company says. The finding was made possible by a new assay developed at VaxGen that allowed company scientists to more accurately measure how well antibodies induced by the vaccine prevented cell-to-cell transmission of the virus.
Cell-to-cell transmission, in which a diseased human cell infects healthy ones, is considered one of the major routes of spreading HIV infection. The new assay showed that antibodies induced by the vaccine bound to infected T cells. Furthermore, the antibodies prevented the diseased cells from infecting ...
- Infection by closely related HIV strains possible.
- Newspaper article from: Vaccine Weekly January 1, 2003 700+ words
...CD8+ T cells to react appropriately to newly arrived HIV strains, even in conditions of chronic infection. Thus, researchers...2002;240:434-39). This article was prepared by Vaccine Weekly editors from staff and other reports.
- Increasing Diversity of HIV Strains Impacts Diagnostic Test Accuracy.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 10, 2009 700+ words
...assays to accurately quantitate, or measure, these variant HIV strains, according to research reported today at the 16th Conference...of evidence documenting the increasing spread of divergent HIV strains in the U.S. The New England Journal of Medicine recently...
- PE Biosystems Introduces System to Rapidly Identify Drug-Resistant HIV Strains.
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 11, 1999 700+ words
...clinical trials to monitor the development of drug-resistant HIV strains and assess the effectiveness of anti-HIV drugs. In the...these genes that typically mutate to generate drug-resistant HIV strains. The system was developed by PE Biosystems' Molecular Diagnostics...
- Resistant HIV strains may undermine PEP regimens.
- Newspaper article from: Hospital Infection Control February 1, 2004 700+ words
Resistant HIV strains may undermine PEP regimens Exposed workers should be given different drug Synopsis: In a multicenter study of occupational HIV...
- Infection with multiple HIV strains hastens disease progression.
- Newspaper article from: AIDS Weekly January 19, 2004 700+ words
2004 JAN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Infection with multiple HIV strains hastens disease progression. "Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected individuals develop a genetically diverse...
- New HIV strains are putting viral load assays to the test.(WEDNESDAY, AUGUST...
- Newspaper article from: Medical Technology and Devices Week August 6, 2007 700+ words
With new strains of HIV appearing in patients in the U.S., following not far behind is the need for new tests that can not only detect the virus, but also quantify viral load to determine how well drugs to treat the disease may be working. For example, of 3,000 blood samples from HIV patients from
- Drug-resistant HIV strains are spreading in U.S.(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Marchione, Marilynn February 28, 2002 700+ words
SEATTLE _ AIDS researchers are reporting disturbing trends in the spread of multidrug resistance among people with HIV, including the first such cases in Africa, a continent that's only just now starting to gain access to AIDS medications. Doctors at the University of Birmingham in England
- MEDICATION REDUCES DRUG-RESISTANT HIV STRAINS.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) July 7, 2007 700+ words
Byline: P-I STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES A new kind of experimental anti-AIDS drug appears to be effective in reducing HIV loads even for many drug-resistant patients, according to two studies reported Thursday in the British medical journal The Lancet. The drug, known as etravirine or TMC125, was given
Source: HighBeam Research, Vaccine Protects Against Array Of HIV Strains.(Brief Article)