Screening for vaginal shedding of cytomegalovirus in healthy pregnant women using real-time PCR: correlation of CMV in the vagina and adverse outcome of pregnancy.

abstract：:Human astroviruses (HAstVs) have been recognized as one of the major causes of acute gastroenteritis in children. To provide more insight into the prevalence of HAstV gastroenteritis in China, 664 fecal samples were collected from children affected with acute gastroenteritis in Beijing from March 2005 to November 2007...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Guo L,Xu X,Song J,Wang W,Wang J,Hung T

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a zoonosis, there is, currently, no standardized assay for quantitatively measuring anti-HEV antibody levels in HEV animal reservoirs. In this study, anti-HEV antibody positive serum from a rabbit (RS26) was calibrated by dose-response parallel line assay using the World H...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Zhang Y,Wang L,Zeng H,Gong W,Wang L,Zhuang H

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the rate at which mutations in the tyrosine-methionine-aspartate-aspartate (YMDD) motif of hepatitis B virus polymerase form is high during prolonged lamivudine (LAM) therapy, these mutations sometimes occur naturally in treatment-naïve patients with chronic hepatitis B. The prevalence of natural YMDD mutants...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lee SH,Kim HS,Byun IS,Jeong SW,Kim SG,Jang JY,Kim YS,Kim BS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnant women are not screened for HBsAg and anti-HCV antibodies in many African countries. As there are few data concerning the prevalence of HBV, HDV, and HCV serological markers in Benin, the aim of this study was to evaluate their 2011 prevalence in pregnant women undergoing HIV screening in a rural area of north...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： De Paschale M,Ceriani C,Cerulli T,Cagnin D,Cavallari S,Ndayaké J,Zaongo D,Priuli G,Viganò P,Clerici P

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is the leading cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide, with HAV infection being restricted to humans and nonhuman primates. In this study, HAV infection status was serologically determined in domestic pigs and experimental infections of HAV were attempted to verify HAV infectivity in pigs. An...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Song YJ,Park WJ,Park BJ,Kwak SW,Kim YH,Lee JB,Park SY,Song CS,Lee SW,Seo KH,Kang YS,Park CK,Song JY,Choi IS

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a significant public health issue in many developing countries, causing waterborne outbreaks as well as sporadic hepatitis. We report here an outbreak of HEV genotype 1f infection during April-May 2018 among people living at Halisohor, a low land in the southern part of Chottogram ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Baki AA,Haque W,Giti S,Khan AA,Rahman MM,Jubaida N,Rahman M

更新日期：2020-12-17 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：:Norovirus is one of the major causes of outbreaks and sporadic cases of acute gastroenteritis in young children worldwide. Obtaining local baseline information regarding this virus is important for developing and evaluating prevention strategies of norovirus transmission in children. The age, seasonal distribution and...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Xu J,Yang Y,Sun J,Ding Y

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genotypes can be distinguished based on gene sequence differences in EBV nuclear antigens 2, 3A, 3B, and 3C, and the BZLF1 promoter zone (Zp). EBV subtypes and BZLF1 Zp variants were examined in Japanese patients with infectious mononucleosis, chronic active EBV infection, and EBV-associated h...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Imajoh M,Hashida Y,Murakami M,Maeda A,Sato T,Fujieda M,Wakiguchi H,Daibata M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only recently have we begun to fully realize the diversity of virions within a single human isolate of the group B Coxsackieviruses. These intratypic (strain) differences may be one of the important factors influencing pathogenesis, e.g., myocarditis vs. pancreatitis. Yet, until the virion strains within a type can be...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Webb SR,Kearse KP,Foulke CL,Hartig PC,Prabhakar BS

更新日期：1986-09-01 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：:Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a common illness in both adults and children worldwide and is caused by several microorganisms including viruses, bacteria, and parasites. Rotavirus (RV), which is the main cause of AGE, can occur as a mixed infection with other viruses. The aim of this study is to assess the molecular e...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Gibory M,Dembinski JL,Flem E,Haltbakk I,Dudman SG

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A hepatitis B vaccination campaign was carried out in a town of 60,000 inhabitants, Afragola, Campania, Italy, a hyperendemic area for hepatitis B where HBsAg prevalence was 13.4% and anti-HBc prevalence was 64.7%. This experimental pilot project aimed to reduce the incidence of both acute and asymptomatic viral hepat...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Da Villa G,Piazza M,Iorio R,Picciotto L,Peluso P,De Luca G,Basile B

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection has become a global concern with high mortality rates among pregnant women, especially those in their third trimester of pregnancy. Estrogen plays an important role in mediating the body, regulating physiological and pathological processes. Estrogen is activated by binding to estrogen...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Gong S,Hao X,Bi Y,Yang C,Wang W,Mickael HK,Zhang Y,Chen S,Qian Z,Huang F,Wei D,Yu W

更新日期：2020-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Norovirus (NoV) is a causative agent of gastroenteritis in children and adults worldwide. Although reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been accepted as the standard method for diagnosis of NoV infection, it requires well-trained personnel and sophisticated equipments. Performance of a commerci...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Thongprachum A,Khamrin P,Chaimongkol N,Malasao R,Okitsu S,Mizuguchi M,Maneekarn N,Ushijima H

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) are both retroviruses with similar routes of transmission. A number of reports suggest variable clinical outcomes in HIV and HTLV co-infected individuals. There is no published information regarding the prevalence of HIV and HTLV co-infectio...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Cooke FJ,Geretti AM,Zuckerman M

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：: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：:Limited data are available describing human papillomavirus (HPV) genotype distribution among females with cytological abnormalities in Switzerland. Cervical cell specimens obtained from 5,318 women were screened routinely by liquid-based Pap smear. All specimens with cellular abnormalities were analyzed subsequently f...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Dobec M,Bannwart F,Kilgus S,Kaeppeli F,Cassinotti P

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:The epidemiology of HTLV-I infection in female prostitutes was studied in a survey of 395 prostitutes from Callao, Peru (the port city of Lima), 72 prostitutes from Iquitos, Peru (another port city on the Amazon River), and 510 prenatal clinic patients from Lima. Prostitutes reported a mean of 8.8 years (range, 1-39 y...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wignall FS,Hyams KC,Phillips IA,Escamilla J,Tejada A,Li O,Lopez F,Chauca G,Sanchez S,Roberts CR

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiplication of HSV-1 and HSV-2 strains in the heart and the corresponding dorsal root ganglia (DRG) was examined in experimentally infected mice. Infectious HSV-1 was recovered from the heart between the second and fourth day after inoculation and 3 days later from the DRG. Both the heart and DRG yielded infect...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Grodums EI,Kuling PJ,Zbitnew A

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinct human papillomavirus (HPV) 18 variants are thought to differ in oncogenic potential and geographic distribution. As such, understanding the regional variants of HPV 18 would be of great importance for evolutionary, epidemiological, and biological analysis. In this regard, the sequence variations of E6 gene we...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Salavatiha Z,Shoja Z,Heydari N,Marashi SM,Younesi S,Nozarian Z,Jalilvand S

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:It was reported previously that HCV can be transmitted from persistently infected human bone-marrow-derived B-lymphoblastoid cells (TO.FE(HCV)) to human hepatoma cells by cell-to-cell contact. The present study confirms and characterize further such type of HCV infection in vitro. TO.FE(HCV) cells were co-cultured wit...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Valli MB,Crema A,Lanzilli G,Serafino A,Bertolini L,Ravagnan G,Ponzetto A,Menzo S,Clementi M,Carloni G

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the leading cause of congenital infection and an opportunistic pathogen capable of establishing lifelong latency. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the distribution of glycoprotein B, H, and N in infants of Shanghai and correlate the genotype with active and latent HCMV infe...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Dong N,Cao L,Su L,Lu L,Dong Z,Xu M,Xu J

更新日期：2020-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetylethyleneimine (AEI) was used to inactivate the avirulent Togavirus Semliki Forest virus (A774 strain) grown in chick embryo, Vero, and brain cell cultures. The purity of the virus preparation affected the kinetics of inactivation. The rate of inactivation increased with a rise in temperature from 5 to 40 degre...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Amor S,Webb HE

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen Chinese patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, seropositive for HBV e antigen (HBeAg) and HBV DNA on at least three occasions in 6 months, were randomised to receive either recombinant human interferon-gamma (rIFN gamma) 0.1 mg/m2 intramuscularly thrice weekly for 16 weeks (n = 11) or no ant...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lau JY,Lai CL,Wu PC,Chung HT,Lok AS,Lin HJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of acyclovir marked the beginning of an exciting era in antiviral research. Early studies on the novel mode of action explained the selectivity of the compound and the remarkably narrow spectrum of activity against a subset of the herpesviruses. Throughout the past decade many clinical trials have demons...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Darby G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a real-life 3D therapy failure in a patient treated with ombitasvir (OMV)/paritaprevir/ritonavir and dasabuvir without ribavirin (3D-R). He had therapy failure at week 12 after the end of treatment. We detected resistance-associated substitutions (RASs) plus polymorphisms on NS3, NS5A, and NS5B target region...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Marascio N,Pavia G,Romeo I,Talarico C,Di Salvo S,Reale M,Marano V,Barreca GS,Fabiani F,Perrotti N,De Siena M,Giancotti F,Gravina T,Alcaro S,Artese A,Torti C,Liberto MC,Focà A

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine ducks congenitally infected with the duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) were treated either orally (four ducks for 10 weeks) or intraperitoneally (five ducks for 12 weeks) with the Indian traditional herbal remedy Phyllanthus amarus. Compared to placebo-treated control ducks, these treatments did not result in a reduc...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Niu JZ,Wang YY,Qiao M,Gowans E,Edwards P,Thyagarajan SP,Gust I,Locarnini S

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00