...H5N1 avian flu, which has long been watched as a potential cause of pandemic flu, said Ralph A. Tripp, a professor of infectious disease and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at UGA. That virus is a concern because it carries a mutation...

...suggests that this mutation is pretty widely distributed geographically," said Sheila A. Lukehart, research professor of infectious diseases. The percentage of samples from San Francisco with the mutant strain jumped from 4 percent in 1999-2002...

...medical institutions that will benefit their communities. "We need the funding here," said Linda Frank, a professor of infectious diseases who works with the AIDS training center. "We have to grow our own clinical services." Treating HIV in...

...infrequently in children under 5. Nobody has really studied this age group," said Dr. George Griffin, a professor of infectious diseases and medicine at St. George's Hospital Medical School in London, who was not connected with the study...

...influence the AIDS virus' reproduction rate in the two sexes, suggested Homayoon Farzadegan, an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the public health school. For instance, a chemical messenger produced by white blood cells...