Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!decvax!wivax!bbncca!motss From: todd@bang.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.motss Subject: AIDS disinfectant tests Message-ID: <1065@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 01:51:17 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1065 Posted: Thu Oct 25 01:51:17 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Oct-84 00:37:48 EDT Lines: 13 Approved: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA NCI TO TEST DISINFECTANT AGAINST AIDS VIRUS Alcide -- a sterilant and disinfectant used in laboratories against single-cell organisms -- will be tested against suspect AIDS virus HTLV-III, Alcide Corp's. J. Young said 10/23... Recent identification of HTLV-III in saliva of AIDS victims prompted need for effective sterilization tool... Alcide Corp. is working with NCI to identify agents that inactivate the AIDS virus... NCI's R. Gallo -- who first identified HTLV-III -- will oversee the tests. HERPES: Young said Alcide is also testing -- in Europe -- topical application of its disinfectants LD and EXPOR against herpes simplex viruses.