MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'hiv-2'. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:21:58 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3501388&cid=t_361949_139_f&fid=38879&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.virology.ws%2F018_W3310_10.wmv Download: .wmv (330 MB) | .mp4 (72 MB) Visit the virology W3310 home page for a complete list of course resources. (Source: virology blog) virology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3501388 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:43:40 +0100 3501388 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2862078&cid=t_361949_77_f&fid=37259&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.horizonpress.com%2Fblogger%2F2009%2F10%2Fhtlv-and-hiv.html For many years, retroviruses were known to be the cause of many kinds of animal leukemias and hematopoietic tumors. In spite of the high expectation that this would also be true for humans, very little evidence for retroviral involvement in any human diseases was forthcoming. In the late 1970s, however, due to the development of sensitive and specific molecular methods to identify retroviruses and to produce large scale cultures of T lymphocytes, HTLV-I was discovered and implicated as the cause of adult T cell leukemia, a particular and relatively infrequent leukemia prevalent in southern Japan and parts of the Caribbean, and tropical spastic paraparesis, a demyelinating neuropathy similar to multiple sclerosis. The discovery that HTLV-I can be transmitted by breast milk has led to a sign... Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2862078 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:36:00 +0100 2862078 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2862084&cid=t_361949_77_f&fid=37259&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.horizonpress.com%2Fblogger%2F2009%2F10%2Fpathogenesis-of-immunodeficiency-virus.html Extensive analysis of naturally occurring simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) and comparative phylogenetic studies with human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) suggests that the latter are close relatives of the SIVcpz viruses of chimpanzees (HIV-1) or the SIVsmm viruses of sooty mangabys (HIV-2). Crossing of species barriers resulted in adaptation to the human host and subsequent acquisition of a pathogenic phenotype. Naturally occurring T lymphocyte-tropic lentiviral infections are highly prevalent and productive but are not usually pathogenic for native hosts. Crossing species barriers may produce an abortive infection or, as in the case of the HIVs, may enhance virulence after several cycles of transmission. The large number of species carrying these viruses may suggest that infection... Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2862084 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:12:00 +0100 2862084 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=764755&cid=t_361949_135_f&fid=35272&url=http%3A%2F%2Fslimconomy.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fhiv-2-good-for-share-price.html How OraSure Leveraged HIV-2 To Drive Share Price & VolumeIn 2003 in Illinois, two titans of the health care industry went to battle with the State Assembly. Compared to the raucous media battles over the intellectual property of ARV drug formulas, this was but a skirmish. But it was perhaps the first salvo in the coming battle for one company's determination to capture a market. OraSure leveraged the legal forces of Abbott, it's then main distributor, to lobby the State to make HIV-2 testing mandatory in Illinois. Chicago (actually Waukeegan, a small suburb north of Chicago) is home to both Abbott and Cardinal Health. It was Cardinal Health who would line up its legal forces in this opening skirmish.But testing for HIV-2 and HIV-1, that's good isn't it?For a small company with a product th... Slimconomy blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=764755 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:56:00 +0100 764755