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- in General Medicine
- — 20 Sep, 2007
Maraviroc for HIV: Responses at 48 Weeks

Jacob Lalezari
REFERENCE:47th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Chicago, 2007
JACOB LALEZARI, Quest Clinical Research, San Francisco
Maraviroc could be a useful new drug for the treatment of some HIV infections, according to Jacob Lalezari of
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- in London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · Public Health
- — 31 Aug, 2007
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Audio News Review, August 31st, 2007

Philippe Mayaud
Herpes Simplex Therapy Reduces HIV Activity in Co-Infected Patients
REFERENCE: N Engl J Med 2007; 356: 790-9
PHILIPPE MAYAUD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
It is possible to reduce HIV activity in patients who are co-infected
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in Oncology
— 15 Aug, 2007

Virus Plus Cytokine Fight Primary and Metastatic Cancer

Paul Fisher

REFERENCE: Meet the Professor Session, AACR 2007, Los Angeles
PAUL FISHER, Columbia University, New York
Patients with cancer could soon be treated with adenoviruses capable of infecting both primary and distant tumors, and simultaneously releasing cancer-fighting cytokines, according

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in ICAAC 2005 · Public Health
— 28 Sep, 2006

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

Roger Baxter

Jaap van Dissel

Which Antibiotics Pose Greatest Risk of C. difficile infection?

REFERENCE: Abstract K-0349
Roger Baxter, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland
In the presence of certain antibiotics, it seems Clostridium difficile can flourish. Roger Baxter, from Kaiser Permanente

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- in ICAAC 2005
- — 7 Jan, 2006
Benign Bladder Bacteria: Preventing Infection in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Barbara Trautner
Barbara Trautner, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
When patients with spinal cord injury rely on urinary catheters for bladder drainage, this may lead to one or more urinary tract infections, or UTIs. As an alternative to drugs, delegates …
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- in ICAAC 2005
- — 7 Jan, 2006
Acinetobacter: Could Rival MRSA in Hospitals?

Yehuda Carmeli
Yehuda Carmeli, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
The Washington DC conference also heard about a hospital infection that has had a worryingly low profile: acinetobacter baumanii. The news at ICAAC was that this could easily rival MRSA …
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