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Human infections documented with a native rodent retrovirus

... By Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers and their colleagues have discovered a new retrovirus in humans that is closely related to a cancer-causing virus found in mice.

Their findings describe the first documented cases of human infection with a retrovirus that is native to rodents.

The researchers discovered the virus in patients with a rare type of The patients in the study have a genetic mutation that compromised some of their natural defenses against viral infection.

Thus, the researchers said their discovery raises the possibility that increased susceptibility to viral infection may play a role in development of some cancers.

However, they emphasized that their findings by no means implicate the virus, dubbed XMRV, in causing The virus may well have flourished as a result of the failure of the defense mechanism; and other factors such as chronic inflammation may play a more direct role in the cancer.

The discovery of the new virus was made by an interdisciplinary research team led by Robert Silverman of Cleveland Clinic and HHMI investigators Joseph DeRisi and Don Ganem, both at the University of California at San Francisco.

The search for the new virus began when Silverman and his colleagues provided samples of a rare familial

DGAP-News: ECKERT & ZIEGLER Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG ...

...To expand into the new segment of radio-pharmacy, in 2005 the group with its head office in Berlin-Pankow invested approximately 1.4 million EUR in the restructuring of two new holdings which deal with the manufacture and sales of radioactive contrast media for so-called PET examinations, a very sensitive and accurate nuclear medicine diagnostic procedure, especially for cancer.

Both companies were self-financing at the end of the year under review, which is why the board of directors assumed that the costs are a one-off sum for restructuring which is not shown in the adjusted profit or loss.

Without the adjustment the profit or loss for the group in 2005 before tax was 2.2 million EUR, the net income was 1.6 million EURO (0.51 EUR per share).

The board of directors will propose a dividend of 0.15 EUR per share at the shareholders' meeting on 30 May.

In the previous year the comparable values for the group profit or loss before tax was 3.2 million EUR and the net income was 3.3 million EUR (1.09 EUR per share).

As a result of the special effects from the discontinued business units from the de-consolidation the profit or loss of both years are only partly comparable.

The dividend last year amounted to 0.25 EUR per share.

Approximately half the growth in turnover of 6.3 million EUR in 2005 was put down to organic growth, the rest came from the acquisition of four new companies.

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