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Audio Journal of Infectious Disease: Reporting from the 2006 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), September 27 – 30, San Francisco+

29th September 2006

Henry Fraimow

Michael Jacobs

Ron Dagan

MRSA: Not Only Carried in the Nose

REFERENCE: Abstract C2-605
Henry Fraimow, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, New Jersey
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus is most often looked for in the nose, but could it be

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Audio Journal of Global Health Issues: Tipranavir Brings Hope for HIV-1 Patients Resistant to Standard Antiretorviral Therapy+

29th September 2006

CHARLES HICKS, Associate Professor Medicine, Duke University, Durham

REFERENCE: Lancet 2006; 368: 466-75
Results with a new antiretroviral agent, tipranavir, tested among patients who were resistant to standard therapies have been published in The Lancet. Charles Hicks of Duke University …

New Antiviral Approach for Infectious Mononucleosis – Kissing Disease+

7th January 2006

Hank Balfour

Hank Balfour, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Infectious mononucleosis, also known as the kissing disease, is caused Epstein Barr Virus, or EBV; so, can we effectively treat, and prevent its spread, with an antiviral? According to one study – …