Recent Blog Posts

View Post: Novartis Buys License to AlphaVax’s Cytomegalovirus Vaccine ...
30 Dec 2008 by admin  
Novartis Buys License to AlphaVax’s Cytomegalovirus Vaccine Bloomberg - Dec 28, 2008 29 (Bloomberg) — Novartis AG said it bought rights to AlphaVax Inc.’s experimental cytomegalovirus vaccine, paying million for a shot that may prevent ...
View Blog: Upjohn - http://www.upjohn.com/

---

View Post: Economic News Online: Novartis Buys License to AlphaVax’s ...
29 Dec 2008 by rpf_81  
Cytomegalovirus, a bug related to the viruses that cause chickenpox and mononucleosis, infects about 86000 newborns in both the U.S. and Europe every year, killing 700 babies. Currently, there is no inoculation on the market. ...
View Blog: Economic News Online - http://economy-online.blogspot.com/

---

View Post: Hearing Loss in Children With Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection ...
3 Dec 2008 by Foulon, I., Naessens, A., Foulon, W., Casteels,...  
Thirty-four consecutive live-born children diagnosed with a congenital cytomegalovirus infection after maternal primary cytomegalovirus infections were included in the study. Five were lost for follow-up, and 1 died. ...
View Blog: PEDIATRICS current issue - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/

---

View Post: Functional Analysis of Killer Ig-Like Receptor-Expressing ...
25 Dec 2008 by van der Veken, LT, Diez Campelo, M., van...  
Functional Analysis of Killer Ig-Like Receptor-Expressing Cytomegalovirus-Specific CD8+ T Cells1. Lars T. van der Veken*, Maria Diez Campelo*, Menno A. W. G. van der Hoorn*, Renate S. Hagedoorn*, H. M. Esther van Egmond*, ...
View Blog: The Journal of Immunology current issue - http://www.jimmunol.org/

---

View Post: Reuters Article: Congenital CMV
2 Jan 2009 by Lisa M. Saunders  
Reuters recently published an article about the #1 viral cause of birth defects, congenital CMV (cytomegalovirus). See "Mom's infection raises risk of infant hearing loss" at http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/ ...
View Blog: Congenital CMV (cytomegalovirus) - http://congenitalcmv.blogspot.com/

---

View Post: Are cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections marked by a decrease of ...
30 Dec 2008 by Dark  
Are cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections marked by a decrease of neutrophils? I guess CMV infections cause a decrease in the no of platelets but will they also be related to a decrease in neutrophils? Thanks ...
View Blog: Licita - http://www.licita.cn/

---

View Post: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection—related to male and/or female ...
30 Dec 2008 by Waltraud Eggert-Kruse, Mirjam Reuland,...  
Objective: To screen for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in male and female partners of subfertile couples and to analyze a potential relationship with clinically relevant parameters of male and female factor fertility. ...
View Blog: Fertility and Sterility - http://www.fertstert.org/?rss=yes

---

View Post: Impact of the complement lectin pathway on cytomegalovirus disease ...
22 Nov 2008 by Sagedal, S., Thiel, S., Hansen, TK, Mollnes,...  
This study retrospectively investigated the association between pre-transplant levels of mannose-binding lectin (MBL) plus the associated serine protease (MASP)-2 and the occurrence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and symptomatic CMV ...
View Blog: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation - current... - http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/

---