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... years. The recent development of topical vaginal microbicide gels resulted from the increase in incidence rates... had disappointing results. "An effective topical microbicide that prevents or reduces sexual HIV transmission could have a substantial impact on the HIV epidemic...News tips from the American Society for Microbiology
...lex virus 2 (HSV-2) and could be used as a topical microbicide against the disease, say researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the University of California, Los Angeles. They report their findings in the February 2003 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Alpha-defensins a...Grant funds research to develop microbicide barrier to HIV
...tute (MWRI) to fund research aimed at developing a microbicide barrier to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),...ay to prevent transmission of the HIV virus with a microbicide barrier could positively impact millions of people. So far, the only products evaluated in large tri...New AIDS drug discoveries to battle drug-resistant HIV strains
...he researchers said. It is also being tested as a microbicide to prevent the transmission of HIV. A third compound (R278474), scheduled for Phase I trials, is even more active against common HIV strains and all the mutants tested, according to the researchers. The team developing the drugs includes scientis......ude SDS inproducts containing C31G, another potent microbicide under development byBiosyn. The findings presented in this paper result from joint research effortsby investigators in the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Pathology and the Jake Gittlen Cancer Research Institute at The Milton S...