Molecular and epidemiological characteristics of blood-borne virus infections among recent immigrants in Spain.

abstract：:It have been suggested that hepatitis B virus (HBV) pre-S deletions may play a role in hepatocarcinogenesis. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of pre-S deletions in chronic hepatitis B patients in Hong Kong, the factors associated with the deletions and its relationship with hepatitis B e antigen (H...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Yeung P,Wong DK,Lai CL,Fung J,Seto WK,Yuen MF

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission of West Nile virus (WNV) from asymptomatic donors has been reported during blood transfusions and organ transplants in humans. In this work, we aimed to investigate the presence of WNV antibody and WNV RNA in blood donors to evaluate the sero-prevalence of WNV and risk for WNV transmission. One hundred an...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Youssef SR,Eissa DG,Abo-Shady RA,Aly Fouad NT,Kattab DK,Fathey H,Abdullaha Elewa AA,Reda DM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 1,943 individuals from Auckland, New Zealand, were tested for the presence of serum antibodies to human T cell lymphotropic virus I (HTLV I), mainly with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with cell extracts as target antigen. The individuals tested were blood donors and mostly Caucasian, but inclu...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Reddy D,Okochi K,Woodfield DG,Judd W

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A metagenomic approach based on target independent next-generation sequencing has become a known method for the detection of both known and novel viruses in clinical samples. This study aimed to use the metagenomic sequencing approach to characterize the viral diversity in respiratory samples from patients with respir...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Madi N,Al-Nakib W,Mustafa AS,Habibi N

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GB virus-B (GBV-B) is the virus most closely related to hepatitis C virus (HCV). Thus, we have used GBV-B infection of tamarins, which develop acute hepatitis following experimental infection, as a surrogate model to study protective immunity. As challenge virus, we first produced a GBV-B pool from an infected tamarin...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Bukh J,Engle RE,Govindarajan S,Purcell RH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study in Kenya of corneal lesions occurring in children with measles virus infection, conjunctival lesions of a characteristic appearance were seen concomitant with the rash. The lesions became visible after staining by Lissamine green or Rose Bengal. In order to investigate whether these lesions were virus-induc...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Nommensen FE,Dekkers NW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkali-dissociated, purified preparations of prototype coxsackievirus B4 release a protein kinase that catalyzes the incorporation of gamma-phosphate from 32P-labeled ATP into three virus capsid proteins (VP1, VP3, VP4), several additional proteins of the particle, and exogenous acceptor proteins. Using protamine sulf...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chatterjee NK,Nejman C

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) has been described as circulating among the Uruguayan population at least since 1998 based on serologic evidence. However, no isolation attempts, molecular detection, or genetic studies have been carried out so far in the country. In the present study, molecular detection of circulating hM...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Pizzorno A,Masner M,Médici C,Sarachaga MJ,Rubio I,Mirazo S,Frabasile S,Arbiza J

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) collected from Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1)-infected patients and healthy controls were measured longitudinally using real-time polymerase chain reaction to evaluate the effects of antiretroviral agents on mtDNA synthesis in vivo and to ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Miura T,Goto M,Hosoya N,Odawara T,Kitamura Y,Nakamura T,Iwamoto A

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive radioimmunoassay technique was used to detect hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg). A strong correlation was found between HBeAg positivity of the serum of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carrier women in Taiwan and the subsequent development of surface antigenemia in their babies. All babies who became chron...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Stevens CE,Neurath RA,Beasley RP,Szmuness W

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics and response rate to pegylated interferon and ribavirin (PEG-INF + RBV) of patients with chronic hepatitis C infected with genotype 5 are poorly documented. A meta-analysis of two large phase III/IV prospective randomized clinical trials conducted in Belgium in patients with chronic hepatitis C (n ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： D'Heygere F,George C,Van Vlierberghe H,Decaestecker J,Nakad A,Adler M,Delwaide J,Laureys A,Nevens F

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eight patients with biopsy-confirmed chronic active hepatitis (CAH), hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) levels and DNA polymerase (DNA-P) activity were assayed three times a week for six weeks and once a week for another six weeks. HBeAg levels were rather constant, whereas DNA-P activity fluctuated. No correlation was ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Heijtink RA,van der Waart M,Weimar W,Schalm SW,Masurel N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, one potential cause of concern is that some discharged COVID-19 patients are testing positive again for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA. To better understand what is happening and to provide public health policy planners and ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Han Z,Battaglia F,Terlecky SR

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Balkan Peninsula and Bulgaria in particular, is a well-known endemic region for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF). This study describes the prevalence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) among tick populations from areas, previously recognized with emerging cases of CCHF disease in humans. These ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Gergova I,Kunchev M,Kamarinchev B

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation is in continuation with the earlier studies on diarrhea epidemic due to rotavirus, that occurred at Jawhar western India, among tribal children during Dec 2000-Jan 2001 published by National Institute of Virology, Pune. Three rotavirus strains were isolated in cell culture from fecal specimens of af...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Awachat PS,Kelkar SD

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major risk factor for intrauterine transmission of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a primary infection during pregnancy. The neutralizing antibody response appeared after an average of 13 weeks after seroconversion and therefore the absence of neutralizing titers in HCMV IgG positive pregnant women is a reliable m...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Eggers M,Radsak K,Enders G,Reschke M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avidity maturation of IgG antibody responses directed against the structural proteins of rubella virus (E1, E2, and C) as well as whole rubella virus (RV) was assessed at sequential time intervals in 7 individuals following serologically confirmed wild rubella infection. Individual structural proteins were purified fr...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Mauracher CA,Mitchell LA,Tingle AJ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of interferon therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection improved remarkably. However, virologic relapse occurs in a substantial proportion of patients with virologic response (defined as an HCV RNA level below 50 IU/ml at the end-of-treatment). A highly sensitive RT-nested PCR assay capable of detecti...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kinai E,Hanabusa H,Kato S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is the result of an inadequate immune response towards the virus. Dendritic cells (DCs), as the most efficient professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs), possess the strongest antigen presenting the effect in the body and can stimulate the initial T cell activation and prol...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sun HH,Zhou DF,Zhou JY

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ideally, long-term lamivudine therapy should not induce tyrosine-methionine-aspartate-aspartate (YMDD) mutants (reverse transcription [rt]; rt M204I/V) in patients with chronic hepatitis B. There is little or no information on the clinical features of patients who do not develop such mutants. We analyzed 368 patients ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Hashimoto Y,Suzuki F,Hirakawa M,Kawamura Y,Yatsuji H,Sezaki H,Hosaka T,Akuta N,Kobayashi M,Saito S,Suzuki Y,Kobayashi M,Arase Y,Ikeda K,Kumada H

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary HIV-1 infections (PHI) with non-B subtypes are increasing in developed countries while transmission of HIV-1 harboring antiretroviral resistance-associated mutations (RAMs) remains a concern. This study assessed non-B HIV-1 subtypes and RAMs prevalence among patients with PHI in university hospitals of Marseil...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tamalet C,Tissot-Dupont H,Motte A,Tourrès C,Dhiver C,Ravaux I,Poizot-Martin I,Dieng T,Tomei C,Bregigeon S,Zaegel-Faucher O,Laroche H,Aherfi S,Mokhtari S,Chaudet H,Ménard A,Brouqui P,Stein A,Colson P

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BKPyV replication is a risk factor for the development of polyomavirus-associated nephropathy in kidney transplant recipients. Here, the case of a 42 years old Caucasian patient is described who developed a kidney allograft failure because of uncontrolled BKPyV replication 7 months after transplant despite a strong re...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Anselmo A,Prezioso C,Saccà FA,Di Lella FM,Palmieri G,Tisone G,Pietropaolo V,Ciotti M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although neutralizing antibodies against Hantaan virus (HTV) can protect hosts from viral infection, T-cell responses to HTV are also important in host defense against HTV. However, much less is known about cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses to HTV. To identify CTL epitopes in the HTV nucleocapsid protein (NP), we...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Park JM,Cho SY,Hwang YK,Um SH,Kim WJ,Cheong HS,Byun SM

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of gastroenteritis are a major public health problem in New Zealand. The introduction of molecular detection methods has now shown that the 'Norwalk-like viruses' (NLVs) are the major cause of food and waterborne nonbacterial gastroenteritis. Reverse transcription and polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) were ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Greening GE,Mirams M,Berke T

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) causes cervical preneoplasic lesions and invasive cervical cancer. This study evaluated the prevalence and distribution of HPV genotypes in cervical exfoliated cells from Uruguayan women. Five hundred sixty-eight cervical specimens were examined by PCR usi...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ramas V,Mirazo S,Bonilla S,Mendoza L,Lago O,Basiletti J,González J,Picconi MA,Arbiza J

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GII.b norovirus is an obligatory recombinant with an open reading frame (ORF) 1 comprising the GII.b genotype and the ORF 2 region corresponding to one of a number of other norovirus genotypes. GII.b is the second most common genotype after GII.4 associated with gastroenteritis outbreaks in Victoria, Australia. The st...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Bruggink LD,Marshall JA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With virus-infected autologous and allogenic mononuclear cells as specific targets, the development of cell-mediated cytotoxic reactivity to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was studied in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) in groups of infants with acute RSV infection and in other control groups of subjects during a...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chiba Y,Higashidate Y,Suga K,Honjo K,Tsutsumi H,Ogra PL

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is controlled tightly by virus-specific T cells. EBV infection is reactivated intermittently over time, even in apparently healthy carriers. Changes in frequency and reactivity of memory T cells, particularly of CD8(+) origin, have not been assessed in this context. It is ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Vogl BA,Fagin U,Nerbas L,Schlenke P,Lamprecht P,Jabs WJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) represents a major cause of posttransfusion hepatitis worldwide. Posttransfusion hepatitis associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV) continues to occur. HBsAg-negative donor sera from the Rhode Island Blood Center between 1987 and 1988 were screened using more sensitive techniques to assess the p...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Liang TJ,Bodenheimer HC Jr,Yankee R,Brown NV,Chang K,Huang J,Wands JR

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seoul virus (SEOV) is the etiologic agent of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. It is carried by brown rats (Rattus norvegicus), a commensal rodent that closely cohabitates with humans in urban environments. SEOV has a worldwide distribution, and in Europe, it has been found in rats in UK, France, Sweden, and Belg...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ling J,Verner-Carlsson J,Eriksson P,Plyusnina A,Löhmus M,Järhult JD,van de Goot F,Plyusnin A,Lundkvist Å,Sironen T

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00