Infection Control Today - Immune System

Boston Biomedica, Inc. Announces 510(K) Clearance of its Lyme Western Blot Test Kit

WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- Boston Biomedica, Inc. announces that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its BBI Borrelia burgdorferi IgM and IgG Western Blot Test Kit. The test method separately detects IgM and IgG antibodies ...More

December 8, 2003

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Genmab and ACE BioSciences to Develop Product to Treat Fungal Infections

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Genmab A/S and privately held ACE BioSciences A/S announced today that they will develop an antibody therapeutic product with the potential to treat fungal infections. The antibody will be directed against a novel target on Aspergillus fumigatus. This ...More

November 17, 2003

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Researchers Neutralize SARS Virus in Lab Tests

WORCESTER, Mass. and PRINCETON, N.J. -- Presenting last Saturday at the annual meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America, a team of scientists from the Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories (MBL) of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) in Jamaica ...More

October 13, 2003

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NIAID Opens Innovative Treatment Study for West Nile Virus

A clinical trial evaluating an experimental treatment for patients infected with West Nile virus (WNV) has begun enrolling volunteers at 36 sites nationwide, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health, ...More

September 9, 2003

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Subversive Strep Bug Strategy Revealed

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have discovered how Streptococcus pyogenes (S. pyogenes), the bacterium responsible for "flesh-eating" ...More

September 2, 2003

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First Harvest of Plants Containing Botulinum A Antibodies Produces Good News for Food-Safety Testing

TORONTO -- Antibodies to Botulinum Toxin type A have just been harvested from a crop of tobacco plants in Ontario. Developed by the Department of Environmental Biology at the University of Guelph, and funded by Toxin Alert Inc., the Healthy Futures for Ontario Agriculture ...More

July 24, 2003

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MedMira Launches Rapid Vaccinia Antibody Detection Test

HALIFAX -- MedMira Inc. announces the launch of its patent-pending MiraWell Rapid Vaccinia Antibody Detection Test into the international marketplace. This test is the latest commercial development in the Company's increasing line of rapid in vitro diagnostic products. The ...More

June 12, 2003

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Viragen Files Patent Application for Drug to Target SARS

PLANTATION, Fla. -- Viragen, Inc. announces that it has filed a patent application covering the use of natural human leukocyte-derived alpha interferon for the treatment and prevention of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). "Previous reports have identified alpha ...More

May 20, 2003

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AVANIR Anthrax Antibody Effective at Neutralizing Key Anthrax Toxin in Live Animal Model

SAN DIEGO -- AVANIR Pharmaceuticals presented in vivo animal data on its fully human antibody against the key toxin of the Class A biowarfare agent anthrax at a national symposium in Maryland today. The data showed that one molecule of the antibody, AVP-8C1, is capable of ...More

May 1, 2003

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Focus Technologies Starts Shipping First Commercial Flavivirus Antibodies for 2003 Season

HERNDON, Va. - Setting a precedent in West Nile Virus testing, Focus Technologies has begun routinely supplying public health labs, commercial laboratories and large hospitals with laboratory reagents for detecting Flavivirus (West Nile Virus) antibodies. Focus' products ...More

April 29, 2003

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