Study of influenza C virus infection in France.

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：:Serial blood and faecal samples were collected from patients and family contacts during an outbreak of hepatitis A in a village and tested by a solid-phase competitive type radioimmunoassay for hepatitis A antigen and hepatitis A antibody. The amount and duration of excretion of hepatitis A antigen was correlated with...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Frösner GG,Overby LR,Flehmig B,Gerth HJ,Haas H,Decker RH,Ling CM,Zuckerman AJ,Frösner HR

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig infection with a highly passaged XJ prototype strain of Junín virus by the intramuscular route (IM) was carried out in order to study viral tropism modification in this host. The neurotropism of this strain was demonstrated by viral isolation, meningitis, and by the presence of Junín antigens as shown by im...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Oubiña JR,Carballal G

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some international guidelines recommend evaluating the need to confirm positive anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody screening results by means of a more specific antibody or molecular biology test on the basis of a screening threshold value (such as the sample signal/cut-off ratio) that can predict the positivity of...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： De Paschale M,Manco MT,Arpino O,Ricucci V,Paganini A,Belvisi L,Cagnin D,Cerulli T,Cianflone A,Agrappi C,Mirri P,Clerici P

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus fragments homologous to TTV were detected previously from an enterically transmitted outbreak of non-A-E hepatitis [Luo et al., 1999]. To test the susceptibility of the Rhesus monkey to this virus and to establish its transmission routes, 6 Rhesus monkeys were inoculated, 3 orally and another 3 intravenously. Th...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Luo K,Liang W,He H,Yang S,Wang Y,Xiao H,Liu D,Zhang L

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of HPV 16 E6*I/E6*II spliced transcripts, in cervical lesions of different grade, was analyzed to characterize the transcription pattern. The presence and amount of spliced transcripts were correlated with DNA viral markers such as E2/E6 ratio and physical state. The detection of HPV 16 E6*I/E6*II mRNAs w...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Cricca M,Venturoli S,Leo E,Costa S,Musiani M,Zerbini M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the prevalence of HPV infection in the genital tracts of women with normal PAP smears, a random series of 109 women was reexamined using colposcopy, a further PAP smear, and punch biopsies taken from the cervix (in 33 cases), vagina (212 cases), and anus (20 cases). The biopsy material was examined using rou...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Syrjänen S,Saastamoinen J,Chang FJ,Ji HX,Syrjänen K

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 102,600 upper respiratory infections (URI) were recorded among young military conscripts in the Finnish Defence Forces during the study period from October 1991 to March 1994. This period covered three outbreaks caused by H3N2-subtype influenza A virus and one outbreak of influenza B. During the 1991/92 out...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Pyhälä R,Visakorpi R,Ikonen N,Kleemola M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the role of sexual transmission in the epidemiology of HCV by a cross-sectional study comparing prostitutes and HCV seropositive and seronegative sexual clients recruited from the bordellos of the docks of Santos, São Paulo State. The average age in the prostitute group was 27.2 years. The median time spent...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Mesquita PE,Granato CF,Castelo A

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction (RNA-PCR) was used for specific detection of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) genomes in clinical specimens. A set of primers was selected from conserved regions of the 1B and N genes for detection of both subgroups. The primers were found to be RSV specific, all RSV strains generated a ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： van Milaan AJ,Sprenger MJ,Rothbarth PH,Brandenburg AH,Masurel N,Claas EC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between host immune factors and HIV-1 disease progression are still in dispute. The RANTES SNPs exhibit distinct ethnic distribution and are associated with different effects on the course of HIV infection. Therefore, impact of RANTES gene polymorphism on HIV-1 transmission and progression needs to b...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Rathore A,Chatterjee A,Sivarama P,Yamamoto N,Singhal PK,Dhole TN

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:Because of the distinct ability of retroviruses to integrate into the target cell genome and thus achieve long-term expression, retrovirus vectors hold great promise for stable gene transfer. Such vectors derived from human immunodeficiency retroviruses (HIVs) and other lentiviruses are envisioned to possess several a...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sadaie MR,Zamani M,Whang S,Sistron N,Arya SK

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitin in the form of microparticles (chitin microparticles, CMP) has been demonstrated to be a potent stimulator of macrophages, promoting T-helper-1 (Th1) activation and cytokine response. In order to examine the mucosal adjuvant effect of CMP co-administered with influenza hemagglutinin (HA) vaccine against influen...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Hasegawa H,Ichinohe T,Strong P,Watanabe I,Ito S,Tamura S,Takahashi H,Sawa H,Chiba J,Kurata T,Sata T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) associated malignant tumor. Recently, cidofovir, an anti-viral drug which is an acyclic nucleoside analogue, has been reported to have an anti-tumor potential. Two patients with NPC, who had previously received multi-round therapy, were treated with cidofov...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Yoshizaki T,Wakisaka N,Kondo S,Murono S,Shimizu Y,Nakashima M,Tsuji A,Furukawa M

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:This study describes two measles outbreaks--one in Cape Town, South Africa in November 2002, and the other in Luanda, Angola in March 2003. The outbreaks were notable because they were caused by closely related genotype B2 viruses. This genotype was first described in an outbreak in Libreville, Gabon in the 1980s and ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Smit SB,Hardie D,Tiemessen CT

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the mechanism of heterologous antibody responses to herpes simplex virus (HSV) and varicella-zoster virus (VZV) which occur in some patients with HSV or VZV infections, stronger evidence was sought for the existence of cross-reacting antibodies to these viruses, using antibody absorption procedures. Absor...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Schmidt NJ

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of 10 isolates of human parvovirus B19 (B19) were determined and compared throughout 96.3% of the open reading frames (4145 nucleotides from nt. 509-4653). In the 4145 nucleotides, 122 mutation sites were found, of which 24 were accompanied by amino acid displacement. Furthermore, the polymorph...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Fukada K,Matumoto K,Takakura F,Yamaki M,Sato H,Okochi K,Maeda Y

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to herpes simplex virus and Epstein-Barr virus were sought in the sera of 33 patients with endoscopically proved duodenal ulcer and 33 healthy controls. Neither the prevalence nor the antibody levels to both viruses were significantly different between the two groups. These results suggest that herpes virus...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kottaridis SD,Mihas TA,Goula I,Mihas AA

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay that is capable of detecting and typing six serotypes of respiratory adenovirus (Ad) was developed, using multiple sets of type-specific primers. The detection of each different serotype depended on distinguishing different numbers and sizes of amplification products o...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Na BK,Kim JH,Shin GC,Lee JY,Lee JS,Kang C,Kim WJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an immunoperoxidase staining test to detect structural antigens of BK virus (BKV) in Vero cell cultures. This test was used to examine the neutralizing activity of human and immunized animal sera. It was shown that sera positive for BKV antibodies measured by hemagglutination inhibition test and enzyme-li...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Flaegstad T,Traavik T,Christie KE,Joergensen J

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GB virus C (GBV-C) is related to hepatitis C virus (HCV) and has a similar genomic structure. Some predictors for the efficacy of interferon (IFN) therapy on HCV have been reported: genotype, viral load, IFN dose, and the amino acid substitutions in the NS5A region, designated as the interferon sensitivity determining...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kato T,Mizokami M,Orito E,Ohba K,Nakano T,Kondo Y,Tanaka Y,Ueda R,Mukaide M,Yasuda K,Iino S

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:Among 39,656 voluntary blood donors in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, 115 (0.29%) were repeatedly reactive for antibody to hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) by second generation (2nd-gen) passive hemagglutination assay (PHA). Positive serum samples were tested for anti-HCV using three different enzyme immunosorbent assays (ELI...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sakugawa H,Nakasone H,Nakayoshi T,Kinjo F,Saito A,Yakabi S,Zukeran H,Miyagi Y,Taira R,Koja K

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, several clusters of hepatitis A have been observed among hemophiliacs linked to factor VIII concentrates treated for virus inactivation solely with the solvent/detergent (S/D) method, a procedure that does not affect nonenveloped viruses such as the hepatitis A virus (HAV). A new outbreak of hepatitis A in s...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chudy M,Budek I,Keller-Stanislawski B,McCaustland KA,Neidhold S,Robertson BH,Nübling CM,Seitz R,Löwer J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 30-base pair (bp) deletion of the cytoplasmic carboxy-terminal domain of the latent membrane protein 1 (LMP-1) gene was analyzed in 37 frozen tissues from patients with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-related gastric cancer and 18 throat washings from healthy adults in southern Japan. The 30-bp deletion was identified in...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Mori S,Itoh T,Tokunaga M,Eizuru Y

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine whether peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) contain proviral DNA or double-stranded replicative forms of TT virus (TTV) and to define which cell subset harbors TTV, we analyzed 126 PBMC DNA samples by PCR, using the NG059/NG061/NG063 and the T801/T935 primer sets. TTV sequences were detecte...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Yu Q,Shiramizu B,Nerurkar VR,Hu N,Shikuma CM,Melish ME,Cascio K,Imrie A,Lu Y,Yanagihara R

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incarcerated persons have high rates of infectious diseases. Few data on the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases in prisoners are available. This multi-center cross-sectional study enrolled 973 inmates from eight Italian prisons. Demographic and behavioral data were collected using an anonymous standardized qu...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sarmati L,Babudieri S,Longo B,Starnini G,Carbonara S,Monarca R,Buonomini AR,Dori L,Rezza G,Andreoni M,Gruppo di Lavoro Infettivologi Penitenziari (GLIP).

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of HIV infection among drug-users in Italy between 1990 and 2000 is described; the data concern drug-users attending a nation-wide network consisting of 510 public drug-treatment centres. We included only individuals with written documentation of an HIV-test result. Of the 1,299,972 attendees, 54.5% had...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Suligoi B,Magliochetti N,Nicoletti G,Pezzotti P,Rezza G

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00