Seroepidemiology of hepatitis A, B, C, and E viruses infection among preschool children in Taiwan.

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：:Lamivudine therapy often causes breakthrough of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA and breakthrough hepatitis. The aim of this study was to determine the viral factors that relate to HBV-DNA breakthrough with and without breakthrough hepatitis. Among 82 patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) who received lamivudine at a dos...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Horiike N,Duong TN,Michitaka K,Joko K,Hiasa Y,Konishi I,Yano M,Onji M

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Palatine tonsils have been observed to harbor several distinct respiratory and herpesviruses in separate studies. In this study, the presence of these viruses in palatine tonsils was comprehensively studied in both children and adults. A cross-sectional analysis of 181 patients (median age 22 years; range, 2.6-66) ope...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Silvoniemi A,Mikola E,Ivaska L,Jeskanen M,Löyttyniemi E,Puhakka T,Vuorinen T,Jartti T

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexually transmitted disease (STD) remains a major public health challenge in developed countries, exacerbated by the advent of the HIV epidemic. The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of serological markers of syphilis, HIV-1/2, HTLV-I/II, HBV, and HCV infections among immigrant sex workers in Mad...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Gutiérrez M,Tajada P,Alvarez A,De Julián R,Baquero M,Soriano V,Holguín A

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:For assessing the role of circulating immune complexes (CIC) in chronic hepatitis C, the relative frequency of CIC was determined in 54 patients with chronic hepatitis C, 15 asymptomatic hepatitis C virus (HCV) carriers, and 54 healthy controls. IgM and IgG containing CIC were studied using both C1q and conglutinin (K...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tsai JF,Jeng JE,Chang WY,Ho MS,Lin ZY,Tsai JH

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alfa-fetoprotein (AFP) is used as a marker of early hepatocarcinogenesis. However, the impact of hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) on this relationship in patients with HBV infection is not clear. The present study evaluated the relation between HBsAg and AFP levels at the initial visit in 1,610 untreated HBV ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Akuta N,Suzuki F,Kobayashi M,Hara T,Sezaki H,Suzuki Y,Hosaka T,Kobayashi M,Saitoh S,Ikeda K,Kumada H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that some individuals may present genetic susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection, with particular research interest in variants of the ACE2 and TMPRSS2 genes, involved in viral penetration into cells, in different populations and geographic regions, although insufficient information is currently ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Torre-Fuentes L,Matías-Guiu J,Hernández-Lorenzo L,Montero-Escribano P,Pytel V,Porta-Etessam J,Gómez-Pinedo U,Matías-Guiu JA

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:Comparison of RT-PCR assays established in house at various places revealed that laboratories could differ in sensitivity by as much as 1,000-fold in terms of the ability to detect measles virus sequences in clinical samples. The study indicates that PCR findings, positive or negative, are questionable if they are not...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Afzal MA,Osterhaus AD,Cosby SL,Jin L,Beeler J,Takeuchi K,Kawashima H

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parainfluenza virus type 3 (Para 3) is an important childhood pathogen causing a significant amount of bronchiolitis and pneumonia in infants. Virus data were analysed over a twelve-year period (1978-1989), and a peak incidence of infection was observed in spring as in Houston, USA, unlike in the United Kingdom where ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： de Silva LM,Cloonan MJ

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 18 rotavirus G9 strains in South Korea were collected during five rotavirus seasons between 2005 and 2010. The relationship between these strains was examined by analyzing the genetic variation of two major structural genes, VP7 and VP4. All the rotavirus isolates were of the G9P[8] genotype. The VP7 phylog...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Than VT,Kang H,Lim I,Kim W

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Puumala and Tula viruses are hantaviruses found in Europe and are associated with the rodents Clethrionomys glareolus and Microtus arvalis, respectively. Puumala virus is associated with the human disease nephropathia epidemica. In Austria, ten clinically diagnosed cases of nephropathia epidemica, presumably caused by...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Bowen MD,Gelbmann W,Ksiazek TG,Nichol ST,Nowotny N

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 82 samples from patients with cervical cancer (Group 1) and 50 samples from patients with other genital diseases (Group 2) were collected in Gansu, China. All 132 samples were tested for HPV DNA with a typing kit that can detect 21 types of HPV, and also tested for neutralizing antibodies against HPV-16, -1...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wu X,Zhang C,Feng S,Liu C,Li Y,Yang Y,Gao J,Li H,Meng S,Li L,Zhang Y,Hu X,Wu X,Lin L,Li X,Wang Y

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-seven rotavirus-positive fecal samples, collected between January and April 1999, from children with diarrhea in the Upper East Region of Ghana were examined for rotavirus VP7 and VP4 types. Sufficient viral RNA could be obtained from 46 (68.7%) of the samples and all the isolates had short electrophoretic patte...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Armah GE,Pager CT,Asmah RH,Anto FR,Oduro AR,Binka F,Steele D

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is a pathogen of the respiratory tract with a worldwide distribution. The purpose of this study was to identify hMPV as the cause of acute respiratory diseases in children admitted at Spedali Civili, a public hospital in Brescia, Italy. Eight hundred forty-six nasopharyngeal aspirate sampl...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Apostoli P,Zicari S,Lo Presti A,Ciccozzi M,Ciotti M,Caruso A,Fiorentini S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpes virus 8 (HHV 8) is recognized as the necessary cause of Kaposi sarcoma (KS) and in the recent past the human papillomavirus (HPV) has been linked to the development of cutaneous basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas. In a cross sectional study investigating Beta-HPV infections in skin lesions, an unexpe...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Murahwa AT,Muchemwa FC,Duri K,Borok MZ,Kanyera RB,Manhanzva MT,Mapingure MP,Stray-Pedersen B

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 drug resistance mutations (DRMs) and substitutions were assessed after the failure of the first line non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) + 2 nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) treatment regimens (efavirenz [EFV] + lamivudine[3TC] + zidovudine [ZDV] vs. EFV + 3TC +...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Avi R,Pauskar M,Karki T,Kallas E,Jõgeda EL,Margus T,Huik K,Lutsar I

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) that appeared in circulation during lamivudine therapy, we analyzed HBV-specific CTLs using HLA-A24 tetramer and HBcAg-specific Th1 cells in patients receiving lamivudine therapy. Six patients (HLA-A24(+)) with chronic hepatitis B, six patients (HLA-A24(-)) with chronic h...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kondo Y,Asabe S,Kobayashi K,Shiina M,Niitsuma H,Ueno Y,Kobayashi T,Shimosegawa T

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the RT-PCR with primers that anneal to the 5' and the 3' extremities of the genome segments of bunyaviruses and internal primers that anneal to the S segment of Simbu serogroup viruses in a nested PCR it was possible to amplify the Oropouche virus (ORO) genome from the sera of three patients. These results show ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Moreli ML,Aquino VH,Cruz AC,Figueiredo LT

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection and its severity can be explained by the concentration of glycosylated severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral particles in the lung epithelium, the concentration of glycosylated angiotensin-converting enzyme receptor 2 (ACE2) in the lung epithel...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Brufsky A

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for 99.7% of cervical cancers, the second most prevalent neoplasia in women worldwide and the fifth leading cause of death by cancer in this population. In Chile, the incidence rate is 14.4 cases per 100,000 women per year and it is considered a significant ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ili CG,Brebi P,López J,García P,Leal P,Suarez E,Roa JC

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences in the predictors for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development after direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy was investigated. DAA therapy was given to 1438 (663 male, 775 female) patients. Sex differences in the HCC development rate and the factors contributing to HCC development after DAA therapy wer...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Watanabe T,Tokumoto Y,Joko K,Michitaka K,Horiike N,Tanaka Y,Tada F,Kisaka Y,Nakanishi S,Yamauchi K,Yukimoto A,Nakamura Y,Hirooka M,Abe M,Hiasa Y

更新日期：2020-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether unconventional pathogens causing subacute spongiform encephalopathy may be present in blood products, a newly developed hepatitis B vaccine and a widely used blood product were injected into mice and rats. As only a few aged mice in the test and the control groups showed spongiform encephalopathic...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tateishi J,Tsuji S

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The X gene product of human hepatitis B virus, HBx, transactivates the expression of viral and cellular genes through a wide variety of cis elements, including the nuclear factor for IL-6 (NF-IL6) binding sites, although HBx does not appear to bind DNA directly. We previously reported that HBx transactivated the inter...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ohno H,Kaneko S,Lin Y,Kobayashi K,Murakami S

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of respiratory viruses using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is sensitive, specific and cost effective, having huge potential for patient management. In this study, the performance of an in-house developed conventional multiplex RT-PCR (mRT-PCR), real time RT-PCR (rtRT-PCR) and Luminex xTAG(®) RVP fast assay...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Choudhary ML,Anand SP,Tikhe SA,Walimbe AM,Potdar VA,Chadha MS,Mishra AC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genotypic inhibitory quotient (GIQ) is the ratio between drug concentration and the number of resistance mutations. However, as different resistance scores can be calculated for the same protease inhibitor, the ability of a GIQ to predict the virological outcome may vary depending on the resistance score used as t...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Gianotti N,Galli L,Danise A,Hasson H,Boeri E,Lazzarin A,Castagna A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid spread of the epidemic has aroused widespread concern in the international community. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) was first reported in China, with bats as the likely original hosts and pangolins as potential intermediate hosts. The current source of the disease is mainly pat...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ye Q,Wang B,Mao J,Fu J,Shang S,Shu Q,Zhang T

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited amount of information is available in Taiwan on the genetic or antigenic characteristics of influenza A virus prior to the establishment of a Taiwan surveillance network in 2000. Isolates of H1N1 and H3N2 viruses in Taiwan between 1980 and 2006 were studied, and part of the hemagglutinin gene was analyzed due ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wang SF,Lee YM,Chan YJ,Liu HF,Yen YF,Liu WT,Huang JC,Chen YM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00