Comparison of human herpesvirus 8 and Epstein-Barr virus seropositivity among children in areas endemic and non-endemic for Kaposi's sarcoma.

abstract：:Patients attending the genitourinary medicine clinic at Watford General Hospital, UK, were examined for clinical signs of genital herpes infection. Genital swabs were taken from 194 patients (126 female, 68 male) who presented with genital ulceration or symptoms which were suggestive of genital herpes infection. Swabs...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Slomka MJ,Emery L,Munday PE,Moulsdale M,Brown DW

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggested that neurological manifestations occur in patients with a severe form of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). On the basis of this issue, neurologists are very concerned about patients with neurological disorders, especially multiple sclerosis (MS), as consumers of immunosuppressive or immune-modu...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Rostami Mansoor S,Ghasemi-Kasman M

更新日期：2020-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of an acute Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection on the serological parameters of persistent varicella-zoster virus (VZV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV) was studied. Sera from 161 patients with infectious mononucleosis caused by EBV and 178 age-matched controls were tested for HSV- and VZV-specific IgA. 98...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Karner W,Bauer G

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of T-cells in clearance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) during acute infection is critical. The relevance of the immunological response in the control of HCV replication is less clear in chronic HCV infection. HCV-specific T-cell responses were examined in 92 interferon-naive individuals with chronic hepatitis C. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Capa L,Soriano V,García-Samaniego J,Nuñez M,Romero M,Cascajero A,Muñoz F,González-Lahoz J,Benito JM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis B patients with low pre-treatment HBeAg (and HBV-DNA) levels are more likely to respond to interferon-alpha therapy. In retrospect, this low level of HBeAg may have been reached just before the start of therapy. Pre-treatment changes in HBeAg levels were studied in 121 patients undergoing interferon-...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Heijtink RA,Janssen HL,Hop WC,Osterhaus AD,Schalm SW

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial serum samples from 20 untreated patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection were tested for HCV RNA by a nested polymerase chain reaction assay using primers from the highly conserved 5' noncoding region to determine the relationship between hepatitis C viremia and the activity of liver disease duri...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Cheung RC,Chan RT,Lok AS

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many reports have already shown RSV outbreaks among hemato-oncology patients, genomic studies detecting similar RSV strains prior to an outbreak in the hospital are rare. In 2014, the University of the Ryukyus hospital hemato-oncology unit experienced, and successfully managed, a respiratory syncytial virus (...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Nabeya D,Kinjo T,Parrott GL,Uehara A,Motooka D,Nakamura S,Nahar S,Nakachi S,Nakamatsu M,Maeshiro S,Haranaga S,Tateyama M,Tomoyose T,Masuzaki H,Horii T,Fujita J

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) infection causes adult T-cell leukemia and is characterized by long periods of clinical latency with low levels of viral production. Transcription of HTLV-1 is controlled through sequences in the promoter and enhancer regions of the long terminal repeat of the integrated prov...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Newbound GC,O'Rourke JP,Collins ND,Andrews JM,DeWille J,Lairmore MD

更新日期：2000-10-01 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

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Although the effectiveness of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been reported in real-world settings, predictive factors of treatment failure are lacking. Therefore, we sought to explore the baseline predictors of treatment response to DAAs. METHODS:T...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ridruejo E,Piñero F,Mendizabal M,Cheinquer H,Wolff FH,Anders M,Reggiardo V,Ameigeiras B,Palazzo A,Alonso C,Schinoni MI,Zuain MGV,Tanno F,Figueroa S,Santos L,Peralta M,Soza A,Vistarini C,Adrover R,Fernández N,Perez

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a public health burden, responsible for more than half a million deaths worldwide each year and explosive outbreaks in-hospital care units. At present, little is known about clinical characteristics and outcomes with nosocomial influenza infection. To assess clinical characteristics and outcome between no...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Naudion P,Lepiller Q,Bouiller K

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:The prognostic value of early hepatitis C virus (HCV)-RNA load was evaluated among nonresponder patients to previous interferon (IFN) therapy treated with daily IFN and ribavirin. One hundred-six nonresponders (83 men), mean age 44.8 +/- 11 years, were treated with IFN-alpha 2b 3 MU/day for 24 weeks, followed by 3 MU ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Trimoulet P,de Lédinghen V,Foucher J,Castéra L,Fleury H,Couzigou P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and cardiac allograft rejection is controversial, some authors reporting a significant association, others not, on the basis of the results of conventional virological diagnosis by culture or serology. This problem was reinvestigated in 88 patients using a semi-...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Fernando S,Booth J,Boriskin Y,Butcher P,Carrington D,Steel H,Tryhorn Y,Corbishley C,Keeling P,Murday A

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis A virus infections have been reported recently among hemophilic patients in Italy and Germany, leading to speculation that infectious hepatitis A virus (HAV) might have been present in some factor VIII concentrates. In both cases, the implicated factor concentrates had been treated by a solvent/detergent met...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Murphy P,Nowak T,Lemon SM,Hilfenhaus J

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA plasmids are potent inducers of long-lasting antigen-specific CTL responses. Little is known about the distribution of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells in the lymphoid tissue and the non-lymphoid tissue after DNA immunization. HBsAg-specific CD8+ T cells in peripheral blood mononuclear cells, spleen, lymph nodes, and...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Qu D,Lanier G,Yuan ZH,Wen YM,Howard CR,Ahmed R

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of high-risk HPV genotypes in patients is essential for vaccination and prevention programs while the geographic distribution of cervical cancer varies widely. HPV 16 is the major cause of cervical cancer followed by HPV 18, HPV 31, HPV 52, or HPV 58 depending on geographic area. In this study, the dist...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chansaenroj J,Junyangdikul P,Chinchai T,Swangvaree S,Karalak A,Gemma N,Poovorawan Y

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:JC and BK polyomaviruses (JCV and BKV) infect humans and can cause severe illnesses in immunocompromised patients. Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) can be found in skin carcinomas. In this study, we assessed the occurrence of serum antibodies against MCPyV, BKV, and JCV polyomaviruses in a healthy population of the Cz...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sroller V,Hamšíková E,Ludvíková V,Vochozková P,Kojzarová M,Fraiberk M,Saláková M,Morávková A,Forstová J,Němečková S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ZIKV infection has become a global threat spreading across 31 countries in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. However, little information is available about the molecular epidemiology of ZIKV. Shared mutation of a threonine residue to alanine at the same position in the C terminal of NS5 sequences was ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Adiga R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) leads to severe injury in the lungs with multiple factors, though the pathogenesis is still largely unclear. This paper describes the particular analyses of the transcriptome of human lung tissue that was infected by SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Random primers we...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wu H,Wang J,Deng R,Xing K,Xiong Y,Huang J,He X,Wang X

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of an acute sporadic viral hepatitis occurring at three villages in the lower Shebli region of southern Somalia was studied. Sera were examined for antibodies to hepatitis E virus (HEV) antigen by a recently developed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The prevalence of anti-HEV ranged from 77.8% to 94.0% ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Mushahwar IK,Dawson GJ,Bile KM,Magnius LO

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) variation in specific T-cell epitopes may represent a mechanism of viral persistence in chronic infection. We examined the HCV non-structural protein 3 (NS3), including the immunologically relevant epitopes HCV NS3-2 KLVALGINAV (human leukocyte antigen [HLA]-A2-restricted) and HCV NS3-1391 LIFC...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： López-Labrador FX,He XS,Berenguer M,Cheung RC,González-Candelas F,Wright TL,Greenberg HB

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed at developing strategies for screening, predicting, and diagnosing intrauterine HBV infection in infants born to HBsAg positive mothers. A total of 1,360 infants born to 1,355 HBsAg positive mothers were followed for 1 year. All newborn infants received active and passive immunization within 24 hr aft...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Yin YZ,Zhang J,Wu LL,Zhou J,Zhang PZ,Zhou SS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most dengue virus (DENV) infections remain asymptomatic. This increases the risk of DENV transfusion transmission (TT-DENV) during outbreaks. We evaluated DENV viremia in 8475 blood donations assembled in minipools for the presence of DENV RNA. The tested samples were obtained between February and May, 2016, during a ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Slavov SN,Santos EV,Hespanhol MR,Rodrigues ES,Haddad R,Ubiali EMA,Covas DT,Kashima S

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2020 coronavirus pandemic is developing at different paces throughout the world. Some areas, like the Caribbean Basin, have yet to see the virus strike at full force. When it does, there is reasonable evidence to suggest the consequent COVID-19 outbreaks will overwhelm healthcare systems and economies. This is par...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： de Ángel Solá DE,Wang L,Vázquez M,Méndez-Lázaro PA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E is endemic in India. It was recently noted that although all the Indian human hepatitis E virus (HEV) isolates (1976-2001) were placed in genotype I, the swine HEV recovered from western India (2000) belonged to genotype IV. This was in contrast to reports from the United States and Taiwan wherein both hum...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Arankalle VA,Chobe LP,Walimbe AM,Yergolkar PN,Jacob GP

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) is major pathogen of lower respiratory tract infections in infants and young children worldwide. There have been many studies regarding HRSV subgroup A (HRSV-A) G protein genetic variability but little information about HRSV subtype B (HRSV-B) G protein genetic diversity and mo...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ren L,Xiao Q,Zhou L,Xia Q,Liu E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the use of immune-complex dissociated (ICD) p24 antigen detection for the diagnosis and prognosis of HIV-1 infection in Ugandan children. Plasma collected prospectively from children born to HIV-1 infected Ugandan women was stored and later analyzed for the presence of neut...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Guay LA,Hom DL,Kabengera SR,Piwowar-Manning EM,Kataaha P,Ndugwa C,Marum LH,Kalyesubula I,Jackson JB

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：: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