Comparative evaluation of measles virus-specific RT-PCR methods through an international collaborative study.

abstract：:Two hundred and thirty fecal specimens were collected from children (up to 5 years of age) admitted with suspected rotaviral gastroenteritis at four Irish hospitals (Cork University Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Cork, Waterford Regional Hospital, and Kerry General Hospital) in the southern region of Ireland, between 2001 ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Reidy N,O'Halloran F,Fanning S,Cryan B,O'Shea H

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute respiratory infection (ARI) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children in low and middle-income countries. Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is one of the most common viral etiological agents for ARIs in children. OBJECTIVES:In this study, we explored the genotypic diversity and the epidemio...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Rahman MZ,Sumiya M,Sahabuddin M,Pell LG,Gubbay JB,Rahman R,Momtaz F,Azmuda N,Shanta SS,Jahan I,Rahman M,Mahmud AA,Roth DE,Morris SK

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chikungunya fever a re-emerging infection with expanding geographical boundaries, can mimic symptoms of other infections like dengue, malaria which makes the definitive diagnosis of the infection important. The present study compares the utility of four laboratory diagnostic methods viz. IgM capture ELISA, an in house...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Reddy V,Ravi V,Desai A,Parida M,Powers AM,Johnson BW

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human polyomaviruses HPyV6, HPyV7, TSPyV, HPyV9, MWPyV, and KIPyV have been discovered between 2007 and 2012. TSPyV causes a rare skin disease trichodysplasia spinulosa in immunocompromised patients, the role of remaining polyomaviruses in human pathology is not clear. In this study, we assessed the occurrence of seru...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Šroller V,Hamšíková E,Ludvíková V,Musil J,Němečková Š,Saláková M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum samples from 87 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the United States were tested for evidence of hepatitis C viral (HCV) infection using an immunoblot assay for antibodies to the hepatitis C virus and the polymerase chain reaction to detect HCV RNA. The findings with these assays were compared to th...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Mangia A,Vallari DS,Di Bisceglie AM

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological and immunohistochemical studies have indicated a possible link between measles virus and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of this study was to use a sensitive and robust method for the detection of measles virus RNA in IBD and control clinical samples. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chadwick N,Bruce IJ,Schepelmann S,Pounder RE,Wakefield AJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) RNA levels may be a more sensitive early indicator of predisposition to carcinogenesis than DNA levels. We evaluated whether levels of HPV-16 and HPV-18 DNA and messenger RNA (mRNA) in newly detected infections are associated with cervical lesion development. Female university students were ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Winer RL,Harris TG,Xi LF,Jansen KU,Hughes JP,Feng Q,Welebob C,Ho J,Lee SK,Carter JJ,Galloway DA,Kiviat NB,Koutsky LA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, real-time PCR was used to quantify adenovirus DNA in cell suspensions prepared from 106 right and left tonsils and 10 adenoids obtained from 57 patients who underwent routine tonsillectomies and/or adenoidectomies. Eighty-four (72.4%) tonsils and adenoids samples were positive for HAdV by real-time PCR....

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Alkhalaf MA,Guiver M,Cooper RJ

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we studied the role of nitric oxide (NO) production during the first steps of the respiratory infection of BALB/c mice with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), strain F. Nitric oxide synthase II (NOS-II) mRNA and protein were detected by reverse transcription (RT)-PCR and dot blot, respectively in samples of lu...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Gamba G,Cavalieri H,Courreges MC,Massouh EJ,Benencia F

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis C (HCV) infection is associated with cognitive impairments which might be mediated through a secondary inflammatory cascade. Egypt has an unusually high prevalence of HCV monoinfections and is an ideal site for the study of the isolated effects of HCV infection. Therefore, in a hospital-based cross-s...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Farag NH,Rashed HA,Hassan M,Darweesh A,Shehata M,Hassanein T,Mills PJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Genotype 3b hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection represents approximately 50% of patients with genotype 3 in China. We compared the efficacy of sofosbuvir (SOF) plus ribavirin (RBV) in Chinese patients with genotype 3a and 3b HCV. METHODS:The analyzed data are from a phase 3, open-label study of SOF pl...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Huang R,Rao H,Xie Q,Gao Z,Li W,Jiang D,Mo H,Massetto B,Stamm LM,Brainard DM,Wei L

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have attempted to reactivate human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) by infection with HHV-7 using childhood exanthem subitum patients in vitro. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were collected from children who had a history of exanthem subitum(ES) by HHV-6 and were infected by human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7) in vitro. T...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tanaka-Taya K,Kondo T,Nakagawa N,Inagi R,Miyoshi H,Sunagawa T,Okada S,Yamanishi K

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 infections due to non-B subtypes are increasing rapidly in number and spreading across Europe. The genetic nature of HIV-1 non-B variants containing subtype G sequences at the protease (PR)-coding region are described from 48 unrelated subjects living in Spain. Phylogenetic analyses of the HIV-1 reverse transcri...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Holguín A,Alvarez A,Soriano V

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taiwan was a hyperendemic area for hepatitis A and B viruses (HAV and HBV) infection before late 1980s. To study the seroprevalence of hepatitis A, B, C, and E viruses (HCV and HEV) infection among preschool children in Taiwan, a community-based survey was carried out in 54 kindergartens in 10 urban areas, 10 rural ar...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lin JB,Lin DB,Chen SC,Chen PS,Chen WK

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) prototype isolate GS is a newly identified lymphotropic herpesvirus and several subsequent herpes isolates were recognized as HHV-6 by their hybridization to a HHV-6(GS) DNA probe pZVH14. DNA restriction analysis and in vitro tropism studies show that HHV-6 isolates can be divided into two ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chandran B,Tirawatnapong S,Pfeiffer B,Ablashi DV

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serological survey for antibodies to hepatitis C virus (HCV), dengue viruses (DEN), West Nile virus (WN), and sindbis virus (SIN) was carried out in sera of selected groups of the population of the Islands of Mauritius (n = 449) and Rodrigues (n = 115), Indian Ocean. 8.3% of 564 sera were positive for anti-HCV. In M...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Schwarz TF,Dobler G,Gilch S,Jäger G

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 10 (TNFRSF10) is a death domain-containing receptor for the apoptotic ligand TNFSF10, which involves multiple processes, including hepatocarcinogenesis and immune response against HBV infection. Several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified as expressi...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wen J,Song C,Liu J,Chen J,Zhai X,Hu Z

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied epidemiologic and immunologic factors in infants with bronchiolitis caused by influenza virus. The proportion of these infants who were male and who had an immediate family member with a history of asthma was similar to that of a control group of infants with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis....

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Garofalo RP,Hintz KH,Hill V,Patti J,Ogra PL,Welliver RC Sr

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well documented that perinatal transmission is the major cause of chronic HBV infection in China. However, the mechanisms of HBV perinatal transmission are not defined clearly. It is not known whether hepatitis B e antigen can cross the human placenta, and the rate of HBeAg decay in babies with and without HBV b...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wang Z,Zhang J,Yang H,Li X,Wen S,Guo Y,Sun J,Hou J

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are two major etiologic agents of chronic hepatitis, which is closely related to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A possible involvement of HBV co-infection was investigated in ongoing HCV-related liver diseases in HCV-infected patients. A pre...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Koike K,Kobayashi M,Gondo M,Hayashi I,Osuga T,Takada S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been generally believed that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-encoded small RNA 1 and 2 (EBER1 and EBER2) genes are conserved as two families that correlated with type 1 (B95-8) and type 2 (AG876 or P3HR-1) EBV strains. EBER polymorphism and its association with EBV-associated disease have not received much attenti...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wang Y,Zhang X,Chao Y,Jia Y,Xing X,Luo B

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pathogenic role of precore-defective mutation in the onset of fulminant hepatitis B has been suggested. However, precore-defective mutants do not always cause fulminant hepatitis B and are not always isolated from affected patients. These findings strongly suggest the presence of some additional important mutations ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kaneko M,Uchida T,Moriyama M,Arakawa Y,Shikata T,Gotoh K,Mima S

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of dried blood spots stored on filter paper as a means to provide specimens for virologic surveillance for measles virus (MV) in situations when the reverse cold chain is not available. Two single-step RT-PCR assays were evaluated for sensitivity of detection of MV nuc...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Katz RS,Premenko-Lanier M,McChesney MB,Rota PA,Bellini WJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of glycated albumin (GA), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), and a number of routine biomarkers as noninvasive indicators of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). One hundred patients with CHC were subjected to full medical history and examinat...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Abo El-Khair SM,El-Alfy HA,Elsamanoudy AZ,Elhammady D,Abd-Elfattah N,Eldeek B,Farid K

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Human sapoviruses (SaVs) are a common cause of the acute gastroenteritis epidemic worldwide, and SaV outbreaks and infections have become more frequent in recent years. Since the end of December, 2015 to December, 2016, 2 gastroenteritis outbreaks occurred in 2 kindergarten classes (outbreaks A and B) in the Baoan dis...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wang Md J,Li PhD Y,Kong Md X,Li PhD H,Zhang Ba Q,Jin PhD M,Wang PhD Y,Duan PhD Z

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have indicated that viral reactivations following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) are frequent, but viral reactivations after autologous HSCT (auto-HSCT) have not been investigated in detail. We performed multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay to examine multiple...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Inazawa N,Hori T,Nojima M,Saito M,Igarashi K,Yamamoto M,Shimizu N,Yoto Y,Tsutsumi H

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrullinated histone H3 (H3Cit) is the product of the conversion of peptidylarginine to citrulline in histone H3. We evaluated the H3Cit level in hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tissues and assessed its association with Beclin1 messenger RNA (mRNA) (a key autophagic regulator). The leve...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lu M,Zhang X,Xu Y,He G,Liu Q,Zhu J,Zhang C

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Markov model was introduced to simulate natural histories of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in men and women. The data set was constructed on 942 HCV carriers who were examined at least once a year without receiving antiviral therapies. Based on 2,251 patient-year data, the probabilities of transition between a...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tanaka J,Kumada H,Ikeda K,Chayama K,Mizui M,Hino K,Katayama K,Kumagai J,Komiya Y,Miyakawa Y,Yoshizawa H

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV), a causative agent of uterine cervical cancer, has also been detected in head and neck squamous cell cancers, especially in squamous cell carcinomas of the tonsils. However, the true HPV prevalence in normal and neoplasic oropharyngeal mucosa remains uncertain. To determine the pre...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： do Sacramento PR,Babeto E,Colombo J,Cabral Ruback MJ,Bonilha JL,Fernandes AM,Pereira Sobrinho JS,de Souza FP,Villa LL,Rahal P

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether vertical transmission of the human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) may occur during pregnancy or at delivery, we enrolled 295 women recruited attending the Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology of a University Teaching of Rome Tor Vergata, S. Eugenio Hospital. The study population was divided in two group...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sarmati L,Carlo T,Rossella S,Montano M,Adalgisa P,Rezza G,Andreoni M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00