Infectious Diseases

• Giardia in Dogs - A veterinary surgeon with a special interest in parasitology, describes the infection and how it can be treated and controlled.

NIAID Awards Contracts To Search For Protein Markers Of Disease (Medical News Today)
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded two five-year contracts to establish Clinical Proteomics Centers for Infectious Diseases and Biodefense. The contracts were awarded to the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, and to the Canadian firm Caprion Proteomics, Montreal.

UTMB awarded $10.9M for new research center (BizJournals)
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has been awarded a five-year, $10.9 million contract from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Clinical Proteomics Center for Infectious Diseases and Biodefense.

50 million innovation project launched to fight infectious diseases (PublicTechnology.net)
The fight to tackle infectious diseases was given a boost yesterday as Minister ohn Denham announced a multi-million pound programme to join up the work of businesses, researchers and government.

HPV infection rates similar in men and women (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Although men are at high risk of acquiring human papillomavirus (HPV) infections, most last no more than a year, about the same time this sexually transmitted disease persists in women, researchers report in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

NIAID Grant Awarded To Buffalo University For HIV/AIDS Research (Medical News Today)
The University of Buffalo's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences on Tuesday announced that it has received a seven-year, $7.6 million grant from NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for HIV/AIDS research worldwide, Business First of Buffalo reports.