Epidemiology of Varicella-Zoster Virus in England and Wales.

abstract：:A sensitive and reproducible real-time PCR assay based on TaqMan technology was developed for the detection and quantitation of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA in serum, and compared with an "in-house" qualitative PCR assay. HBV DNA was measured in 125 serum samples from 76 hepatitis B patients, consisting of 22 patients ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chen RW,Piiparinen H,Seppänen M,Koskela P,Sarna S,Lappalainen M

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The general aim was to investigate the burden of respiratory virus illness in a hospital emergency department, during two different epidemic seasons. Consecutive patients attending an emergency department during two study periods (February/March 2009 and 2010) were enrolled using broad inclusion criteria (fever/preced...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Pierangeli A,Scagnolari C,Selvaggi C,Verzaro S,Spina MT,Bresciani E,Antonelli G,Bertazzoni G

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of delta agent among 120 Chinese patients with HBsAg-positive chronic active and hepatocellular carcinoma from Taiwan and Los Angeles were studied by serological assay for antibody to delta antigen and immunoperoxidase staining for delta antigen in the liver biopsies. Of 120 patients, only four with chr...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Govindarajan S,Lee SD,Tong MJ,Tsai YT,Lo KJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To establish gut immunity in monkeys to polio-virus type 1, we fed four juvenile bonnet monkeys (Macaca radiata) with 100 median infectious doses of the Mahoney strain of virus. The duration of viral shedding in the throat and faeces and the titre of virus in faeces were measured. Eighteen days after the last monkey s...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Selvakumar R,John TJ

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In countries with a low prevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) infection, indeterminate HTLV serologies are a major problem in blood bank screening because of the uncertainties about infection in these cases. The recent discovery of two new types of simian T-lymphotropic viruses (STLV), which give an HTLV-ind...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Vandamme AM,Van Laethem K,Liu HF,Van Brussel M,Delaporte E,de Castro Costa CM,Fleischer C,Taylor G,Bertazzoni U,Desmyter J,Goubau P

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poliovirus (PV) is a member of the species Enterovirus C (EV-C), which may cause irreversible paralysis and death. So, for the purpose of analyzing the evolution of PV2 to help in eradicating PVs globally, a recombination analysis was performed to verify all viral genomes of EV-C, and we found 13 putative recombinatio...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Qian Y,Pu X,Yu Y,Yu X,Kong L,Liu L,Wang H,Shen H

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon alpha (IFN-alpha) therapy is currently the treatment of choice for chronic hepatitis C (HCV) infection, but it fails to achieve a sustained response in approximately 75% of those treated. The factors which determine whether or not an individual will respond to IFN-alpha are uncertain, although a number of p...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Garson JA,Brillanti S,Whitby K,Foli M,Deaville R,Masci C,Miglioli M,Barbara L

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection was diagnosed in 57 adults admitted to Toranomon Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. Genotypes of HBV were determined by a serological method and compared to those in 1,077 patients with chronic hepatitis B. The distribution of genotypes were: genotype A (acute, 22.8% vs. chronic, 1.9%; P...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kobayashi M,Arase Y,Ikeda K,Tsubota A,Suzuki Y,Saitoh S,Kobayashi M,Suzuki F,Akuta N,Someya T,Matsuda M,Sato J,Takagi K,Miyakawa Y,Kumada H

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Seasonal influenza is an annual occurrence that leads to large community outbreaks and increased hospitalisation. A number of studies have suggested that influenza A (FLUAV) is associated with increased rates of hospitalisation and mortality compared to influenza B (FLUBV). This study compared demographic an...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Mabayoje DA,Cutino-Moguel T,Haigh J,Wilks M,Welch CA,Melzer M

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotavirus vaccines have been available in Japan since 2011. This study conducted to monitor the trend of group A rotavirus (RVA) genotypes 3 years after vaccine introduction. A total of, 539 fecal samples were collected from children with acute gastroenteritis in six regions during July 2014-June 2015. Among them, 178...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Khandoker N,Thongprachum A,Takanashi S,Okitsu S,Nishimura S,Kikuta H,Yamamoto A,Sugita K,Baba T,Kobayashi M,Hayakawa S,Mizuguchi M,Ushijima H

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms underlying chronicity of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are poorly understood, but the importance of impaired viral clearance by the immune system has been suggested. The prevalence of HCV infection of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) was in investigated in 34 persistently infected patients ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Zignego AL,De Carli M,Monti M,Careccia G,La Villa G,Giannini C,D'Elios MM,Del Prete G,Gentilini P

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No data on antiviral response of HBV genotypes E-H are available so far although these HBV genotypes contribute significantly to the global HBV burden. Of 49 patients with HBV genotypes E-H, 23 received interferon (IFN)-alpha, 12 nucleos(t)ide analogues and 14 patients were untreated. HBV genotype was determined by di...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Erhardt A,Göbel T,Ludwig A,Lau GK,Marcellin P,van Bömmel F,Heinzel-Pleines U,Adams O,Häussinger D

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular epidemiology of hepatitis A virus (HAV) strains circulating in the St. Petersburg and Karelia regions was studied during 1997-2003. Hepatitis A virus RNA was isolated from both clinical samples (stools or sera) and environmental samples (sewage water). RT-PCR was carried out using different primer pairs ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Davidkin I,Zheleznova N,Jokinen S,Gorchakova O,Broman M,Mukomolov S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is usually transmitted by an oral-fecal route and is prevalent not only in developing countries but also in developed countries. In the present study, the phylogenetic characterization of the VP1/2A junction region (321 nucleotides) of China HAV isolates was examined. Anti-HAV IgM-positive seru...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Cao J,Bi S,Meng Q,Shen L,Zheng H,Zhang Y

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to shed light on the mode of HTLV-I infection by mother-to-child transmission, we examined sera of school children in a highly endemic town on two separate occasions at a 6-year interval. The carrier rates in ages 15-17, 8.7 and 2.1%, were significantly higher than that in ages 6-8, 1.7 and 0.4%, in studies. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sugiyama H,Doi H,Yamaguchi K,Tsuji Y,Miyamoto T,Hino S

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seroprevalence of viral hepatitis in healthcare workers has important public health implications. To assess the risk factors for the acquisition of viral hepatitis in an unvaccinated cohort from an hyperendemic region, 567 healthcare workers from a large hospital in the capital of the Republic of Yemen were interv...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Shidrawi R,Ali Al-Huraibi M,Ahmad Al-Haimi M,Dayton R,Murray-Lyon IM

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus (EV) infections are common. There are more than 60 known serotypes, and each has different epidemiologic or medical importance. Over 700 physicians from 75% of basic administrative units of Taiwan participated in the "Sentinel Physician Surveillance of Infectious Disease" and reported weekly to the Center ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tseng FC,Huang HC,Chi CY,Lin TL,Liu CC,Jian JW,Hsu LC,Wu HS,Yang JY,Chang YW,Wang HC,Hsu YW,Su IJ,Wang JR,CDC-Taiwan Virology Reference Laboratories and Sentinel Physician Network.

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), the etiologic agent of Kaposi's sarcoma, causes malignancies frequently in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. In the United States and Europe, KSHV infection is common among men who have sex with men. However, the seroprevalence of KSHV among men who have ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Katano H,Yokomaku Y,Fukumoto H,Kanno T,Nakayama T,Shingae A,Sugiura W,Ichikawa S,Yasuoka A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 immunity appears to be diminished in healthy Japanese carriers of human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I), but type 2 status remains undetermined. To further examine the subclinical effect of HTLV-I on host immunity, we measured serum antibodies to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in 415 healthy Japanese adults ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Birmann BM,Mueller NE,Okayama A,Hsieh CC,Tsubouchi H,Harn D,Stuver SO

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence rate of IgG antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was determined in a sample of 567 women of childbearing age in the southern part of Israel by the immunoperoxidase assay to membrane antigen (IPAMA) technique. Urban Jewish women of Afro-Asian origin showed significantly higher rates of seropositivity than...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Urkin J,Sarov B,Naggan L,Haikin H,Sarov I

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genotypes and subtypes of 205 HBV isolates collected during 1989-2002 in Estonia and 14 other regions of the former USSR were determined by sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of the S gene. The in Europe prevailing genotypes, A and D, were also circulating in the whole territory of the former USSR including Esto...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tallo T,Norder H,Tefanova V,Krispin T,Priimägi L,Mukomolov S,Mikhailov M,Magnius LO

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether autophagy regulates the expression of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) immediately early two viral protein (IE2). Rapamycin and 3-methyladenine (3-MA) were used to stimulate or suppress autophagy during HCMV infection. UL122 recombinant plasmid was transfected to overexpr...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Zhang X,Xi T,Zhang L,Bi Y,Huang Y,Lu Y,Liu X,Fang F

更新日期：2020-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune correlates of protection against human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection are still debated. This study aimed to investigate which arm of the immune response plays a major role in protection against HCMV infection in kidney transplant recipients (n = 40) and heart transplant recipients (n = 12). Overall, patients...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lilleri D,Zelini P,Fornara C,Zavaglio F,Rampino T,Perez L,Gabanti E,Gerna G

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The unprecedented demand for testing for the ongoing coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has led to an acute shortage and limited availability of test reagents for which pooling of samples has been recommended in areas with low prevalence. Considering the possibility of dilution ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Mohanty S,Ravindra A,Gupta K,Hallur V,Behera B,Mahaptra A,Saha S,Ranjan J,Payal P,Mohanty M,Rath S,Mishra B

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested a pathogenic role of human parvovirus B19 (B19) in the development of acute fulminant liver failure in children. The hypothesis was based on the detection of B19 DNA in 8 of 10 explanted livers of children requiring liver transplantation. In the present study, explanted livers from 43 adu...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Eis-Hübinger AM,Reber U,Abdul-Nour T,Glatzel U,Lauschke H,Pütz U

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 70 kDa heat shock protein (Hsp70) is generally considered to be an intracellular protein, however, there is evidence that Hsp70 can be found in the extracellular environment. Hsp70 and antibodies against Hsp70 have been reported in human serum. Recent evidence has shown that Hsp70 antibodies are elevated in HIV in...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Papp D,Prohászka Z,Kocsis J,Füst G,Bánhegyi D,Raynes DA,Guerriero V

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1999-2000, a sustained mumps outbreak in the highly vaccinated population in Singapore was attributed to vaccine failure associated with the Rubini vaccine strain. To explain this phenomenon, the complete nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) gene of eight mumps virus isola...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lim CS,Chan KP,Goh KT,Chow VT

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory viruses were identified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in more than 4,200 specimens collected during 2002 and 2003 in Victoria, Australia from patients admitted to hospitals or participating in an influenza surveillance program. Influenza viruses and picornaviruses were important causes of morbidit...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Druce J,Tran T,Kelly H,Kaye M,Chibo D,Kostecki R,Amiri A,Catton M,Birch C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inoue-Melnick virus (IMV) was stabilized to thermal inactivation at 50 degrees C by 1 M Na2SO4 but not by 1 M MgCl2, 1 M MgSO4, 2 M NaCl, and 2 M KCl. The latter salts enhanced the inactivation over that in distilled water. Na2SO4 stabilized IMV at 1 M concentration but enhanced inactivation at 0.1 M. Three types of I...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Nishibe Y,Inoue YK,Melnick JL

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It remains unclear if China's current HIV antibody testing algorithm misses a substantial number of HIV infected individuals. Of 196 specimens with indeterminate or negative results on HIV western blot (WB) retrospectively examined by HIV-1 nucleic acid test (NAT), 67.57% (75/111) of indeterminate WB samples, and 16.4...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Liu MQ,Zhu ZR,Kong WH,Tang L,Peng JS,Wang X,Xu J,Schilling RF,Cai T,Zhou W

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00