Cytomegalovirus-related disease
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2008 travel scholarship winner announced Winner of the 2008 AHMF Travel Scholarship is Dr Jonathon Howard. Dr Howard will be presenting his research: Investigation of the role of CMV and other herpesvirus in congenital infections and stillbirth at the International Herpesvirus Workshop in Ithaca, New York from July 25th to 31st 2009. |
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2008 travel scholarship winner: role of CMV and other herpesviruses in congenital infections and stillbirth Winner of the 2008 AHMF Travel Scholarship is Dr Jonathon Howard. Dr Howard will be presenting his research: Investigation of the role of CMV and other herpesvirus in congenital infections and stillbirth at the International Herpesvirus Workshop in Ithaca, New York from July 25th to 31st 2009. |
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2006 travel scholarship winner: CMV DNA polymerase aspartate triad as an antiviral target The winner of the 2006 AHMF Travel Scholarship is Gillian Scott. Gillian was awarded the scholarship to attend the 11th international CMV and Betaherpesvirus Workshop at the Universite Paul Sabatiere in Toulouse, France from May 13-17, 2007 and present “The CMV DNA Polymerase Aspartate Triad as an Antiviral Target”. As well as going to the CMV conference Gillian was also able to visit collaborators of the project in Erlangen, Germany and Cambridge, UK, and give a talk to both of these groups on her research (including the poster presentation). |
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National serosurvey of cytomegalovirus in Australia Fifty-seven per cent of Australians are seropositive for CMV, with over half of seropositive individuals being infected by one year of age. |
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Seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus infection in the United States Large percentages of women in the United States enter their childbearing years susceptible to a primary CMV infection and a large percentage of these women experience a primary CMV infection during their childbearing years. |
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2005 travel scholarship winner: Obstetricians' knowledge of herpesviruses in pregnancy The winner of the 2005 Travel Grant Scholarship is Dr Michelle Giles. She presented A Study of Obstetricians' Knowledge Base for Management of Herpes Virus Infections in Pregnancy in Australia at the 2006 Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology (IDSOG) Annual Meeting 2006 in Monterey, California. |
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CMV infection and HIV Professor Bill Rawlinson discusses clinical issues related to disease manifestations and monitoring. From the AHMF 2007 Forum on Herpesvirus and HIV Interactions. |
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2007 HIV and HSV interactions forum: Panel discussion Prof Adrian Mindel, Prof Bill Rawlinson, Prof Andrew Grulich and Prof Tony Cunningham discuss issues from the AHMF Forum on HIV and herpes interactions. |
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2007 lunch forum: HSV and HIV interactions The AHMF HSV and HIV Interactions Lunch Forum was held in Sydney on 23 July 2007. Discussion focussed on the unique challenge that HIV presents in coinfection with various herpesviruses. |
