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9 Feb 2010
Infectious and Emerging Diseases News
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Antiretroviral therapy associated with increase in...
- 8 Feb 2010
In PLoS Medicine this week a study conducted in a multi-country HIV treatment program in sub-Saharan Africa has found that pregnancy rates...
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Nearly half of Americans believe H1N1 outbreak is...
- 5 Feb 2010
Majority of parents got or intend to get their children vaccinated, but majority of adults will not get H1N1 vaccine themselves Boston, MA...
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NTU researchers complete the world's first in-depth...
- 5 Feb 2010
This breakthrough makes NTU's School of Biological Sciences a global leader in transcriptional profiling of malaria -- and better yet, could lead...
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Road mapping could be key to curing TB
- 5 Feb 2010
The complex chain of metabolic events in bacteria that lead to fatal diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) may be better understood using...
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TGen finalizes alliance with Van Andel Research...
- 5 Feb 2010
Robust basic-science-to-translational delivery platform should provide patient benefit PHOENIX, Ariz. — Feb. 5, 2010 — The...
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Infection-fighting antibodies made in plants as...
- 5 Feb 2010
The first head-to-head comparison of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies produced from plants versus the same antibodies produced from mammalian...
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News briefs from the February issue of Chest
- 4 Feb 2010
BENEFITS OF ICS FOR COPD MAY BE OVERSTATED Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are widely used for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary...
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More than 30 percent of seniors are not immunized...
- 4 Feb 2010
New report finds low adult vaccination rates in US Washington, D.C. February 4, 2010 - A new report, Adult Immunization: Shots to Save Lives,...
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MSU researcher awarded $2 million to tackle...
- 4 Feb 2010
Researcher attempts to eradicate elephantiasis, river blindness EAST LANSING, Mich. — In an effort to eliminate the tropical diseases...
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Virology text focuses on families
- 4 Feb 2010
A new virology textbook published by ASM Press educates the reader by focusing on the families. Based on the author's experiences teaching...
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Device to sniff out stomach bugs could save health...
- 4 Feb 2010
Testing has begun on a device that can sniff out the presence of disease by smell, thanks to a £1.3 million award from the Wellcome...
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Targeted prevention stopped spread of H1N1 at...
- 3 Feb 2010
UAB study author, preeminent flu researcher, volunteered as the camp’s doctor VIDEO: David Kimberlin,...
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Flu vaccination rate at large, Midwest health system...
- 3 Feb 2010
Making flu shots mandatory in 2008 dramatically increased the vaccination rate among St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare's nearly 26,000 employees...
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Plant derivative could help refine cancer treatment
- 3 Feb 2010
IMAGE: Celastrol, derived from trees and shrubs called celastracaea, has been used for centuries in China to...
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Iowa State, Ames Lab chemists discover how antiviral...
- 3 Feb 2010
IMAGE: Chemists from Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory, left to right, Sarah Cady (who's holding a...
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Scientists find ideal target for malaria therapy
- 3 Feb 2010
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a protein made by the malaria parasite that is essential to...
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Bad news for mosquitoes: Yale study may lead to...
- 3 Feb 2010
Yale University researchers have found more than two dozen scent receptors in malaria-transmitting mosquitoes that detect compounds in human...
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Malaria's key survival protein identified, offering...
- 3 Feb 2010
IMAGE: Professor Alan Cowman and Dr. Justin Boddey from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne,...
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LSTM begins £0.5 million malaria study in...
- 3 Feb 2010
A new study led by LSTM will investigate whether long-term weekly iron and folic acid supplementation can reduce anaemia without increasing the...
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Researchers find 'broad spectrum' antiviral that...
- 1 Feb 2010
Compound could be used against HIV-1, Nipah, Ebola and other deadly viruses Viruses are insidious creatures. They differ from each other in many...
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Of swine, birds and men -- pandemic H1N1 flu
- 1 Feb 2010
Hong Kong SAR, China – Current research suggests that pandemic H1N1 influenza of swine origin has distinct means of transmission from the...
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Tobacco plant-made therapeutic thwarts West Nile virus
- 1 Feb 2010
IMAGE: Qiang "Shawn " Chen and lead author Huafang "Lily " Lai arrested West Nile virus infection with a new...
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Compound found that targets wide range of viruses
- 1 Feb 2010
Cell-culture and animal tests show antiviral could provide protection against HIV, Ebola, hepatitis C, herpes and more GALVESTON, Texas —...
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Immune protein fends off exotic virus
- 1 Feb 2010
A study published online on February 1 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (www.jem.org) shows that antiviral proteins called type I...
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WHO pneumonia expert recognized for efforts to...
- 31 Jan 2010
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – WHO pneumonia expert Dr. Thomas Cherian will be honored by a group of the world's leading infectious disease...
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IVAC Executive Director Dr. Orin Levine commends...
- 29 Jan 2010
Insists time is now for commitments from donor nations, industry and developing country governments Today, the Bill & Melinda Gates...
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New vaccine effective in preventing TB in African...
- 29 Jan 2010
Hanover, N.H., U.S.A. – Investigators from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) have reported results of a clinical trial showing that a new...
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Research breakthrough could lead to new treatment...
- 28 Jan 2010
Multinational team of researchers focuses on how parasites use enzymes to survive and spread disease This press release is available in...
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Virus-like particle vaccine protects monkeys from...
- 28 Jan 2010
An experimental vaccine developed using non-infectious virus-like particles (VLP) has protected macaques and mice against chikungunya virus, a...
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Immune memory formation seen in early stages of...
- 28 Jan 2010
In an acute viral infection, most of the white blood cells known as T cells differentiate into cells that fight the virus and die off in the...
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