Abstract: Systems and methods facilitate transfer of lodging reservations on a secondary market, thereby maintaining increased inventory availability and flexibility, and avoiding sold-out or no-reservations-available conditions. Would-be travelers or lodgers are permitted to benefit from changing market conditions as they are able to consider selling/transferring previously made reservations to take advantage of price changes in their favor. At the same time, lodging providers are able to participate in profits realized from increasing lodging demand and prices, even where lodging reservations were originally made long in the past.

Abstract: A method for the prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of Streptococcal pneumoniae infections is disclosed which comprises the treating of an individual with an effective amount of a lytic enzyme composition specific for the infecting bacteria, and a carrier for delivering said lytic enzyme. This method, and composition can be used for the treatment of upper respiratory infections, lower respiratory infections, septicemia, bacterial meningitis, and other infections involving Streptococcal pneumoniae.