Valomaciclovir versus valacyclovir for the treatment of acute herpes zoster in immunocompetent adults: a randomized, double-blind, active-controlled trial.

abstract：:Human Pegivirus (HPgV), formerly GB virus-C/Hepatitis G virus (GBV-C/HGV), collectively known as GBV-C, is widely spread and has been reported to be associated with non-A-E hepatitis. To our knowledge, no previous study was conducted about HPgV in Qatar. Thus, the objectives of this study were as follows: (i) to deter...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： AbuOdeh RO,Al-Absi E,Ali NH,Khalili M,Al-Mawlawi N,Hadwan TA,Althani AA,Nasrallah GK

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:The presence of hepatitis GB virus C (GBV-C), also known as hepatitis G virus (HGV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) were investigated in sera from 45 hemophiliacs from nine locations in Nicaragua using a nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Primers used to detect GBV-C and HCV derived from the helicase region and 5'UT...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： González-Pérez MA,Norder H,Bergström A,Lopéz E,Visoná KA,Magnius LO

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV6) is a beta-herpesvirus capable of infecting several cell types from different origins. HHV6 is the etiological agent of exantem subitum and has been associated with several diseases, all characterized by an inflammatory response triggered by chemokines. We show that strain U1102 of HHV6 is ab...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Caruso A,Favilli F,Rotola A,Comar M,Horejsh D,Alessandri G,Grassi M,Di Luca D,Fiorentini S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A real-time PCR assay was developed for quantitative detection of B19 DNA in clinical serum samples. The assay was carried out using a LightCycler instrument and product formation was monitored continuously with the fluorescent double-stranded DNA binding dye SYBR Green I. With an optimized PCR protocol, this system w...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Manaresi E,Gallinella G,Zuffi E,Bonvicini F,Zerbini M,Musiani M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction between herpesviruses and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)1 is postulated in the progression of HIV disease. In order to evaluate the specific antibody responses directed to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) and to provide serological evidence suggesting reactivation of these viruses abl...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Quesnel A,Pozzetto B,Touraine F,Moja P,Lucht F,De The G,Touraine JL,Gaudin O,Genin C

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：: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：:In April 2004, two patients were admitted to hospital in Berlin, Germany, with clinical signs of acute respiratory infection after returning from a military exercise in their home country of Turkey. They were admitted to a high security infectious disease unit as epidemiological data pointed to an outbreak of unknown ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chmielewicz B,Benzler J,Pauli G,Krause G,Bergmann F,Schweiger B

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation at the IL-28B locus was recently reported to be a significant predictive factor of viral response to pegylated-interferon plus ribavirin combination therapy against chronic hepatitis C. Predictive factors for the effect of therapy, including IL-28B polymorphism rs8099917 and viral and clinical factors were i...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Hashimoto Y,Ochi H,Abe H,Hayashida Y,Tsuge M,Mitsui F,Hiraga N,Imamura M,Takahashi S,Nelson Hayes C,Ohishi W,Kubo M,Tsunoda T,Kamatani N,Nakamura Y,Chayama K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 infections due to non-B subtypes are increasing rapidly in number and spreading across Europe. The genetic nature of HIV-1 non-B variants containing subtype G sequences at the protease (PR)-coding region are described from 48 unrelated subjects living in Spain. Phylogenetic analyses of the HIV-1 reverse transcri...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Holguín A,Alvarez A,Soriano V

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:The objective of this study was to investigate variation in human papillomavirus (HPV) type-16 load within histologically defined grades of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. Two hundred and thirty-seven liquid based cytology samples were collected from women attending colposcopy clinics, DNA was extracted, and prese...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Fiander AN,Hart KW,Hibbitts SJ,Rieck GC,Tristram AJ,Beukenholdt RW,Powell NG

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 2002, several epidemics of aseptic meningitis were attributed to echovirus 13 in Korea. The causative agents of these outbreaks were isolated and identified using rhabdosarcoma cells, HEp-2 and Buffalo green monkey kidney cells, and a neutralization test using monospecific antiserum. Fifty-four echovirus 13 iso...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Cheon DS,Lee J,Lee K,Lee S,Park K,Ahn J,Jee Y,Yoon J,Cho H

更新日期：2004-07-01 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

abstract：:Immunoglobulin class-specific determination by ELISA and a virus neutralization test (NT) were compared for the detection of the serum antibody responses after vaccination of infants with the RIT 4237 rotavirus vaccine (of bovine origin). A capture method was applied for specific IgM determination by ELISA because of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Delem A,Vesikari T

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred thirty-two strains of adenovirus type 7 were isolated in Hiroshima City during the period 1995-1999. About 80% of the viruses were isolated from patients with respiratory illness, and about 70% were isolated from children younger than 6 years old. DNA restriction analysis was performed on 58 of the 132 iso...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ikeda Y,Yamaoka K,Noda M,Ogino T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotavirus is a major cause of gastroenteritis in young children worldwide. There have been several recent reports concerning rotavirus isolation from adults, particularly in the elderly, presenting with gastroenteritis. In this study, the authors report on rotavirus outbreaks in five separate elderly care facilities b...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Gunn L,Feeney SA,Cashman O,Collins PJ,Coyle PV,O'Shea H

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the genetic diversity, time origin, and evolutionary history of the 2019-nCoV outbreak in China and Thailand, a total of 12 genome sequences of the virus with known sampling date (24 December 2019 and 13 January 2020) and geographic location (primarily Wuhan city, Hubei Province, China, but also Bangkok...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Li X,Zai J,Wang X,Li Y

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon alpha (IFN-alpha) therapy is currently the treatment of choice for chronic hepatitis C (HCV) infection, but it fails to achieve a sustained response in approximately 75% of those treated. The factors which determine whether or not an individual will respond to IFN-alpha are uncertain, although a number of p...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Garson JA,Brillanti S,Whitby K,Foli M,Deaville R,Masci C,Miglioli M,Barbara L

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective study investigated and characterized the YMDD motif of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) reverse transcriptase (RT) gene, in sequential samples of 17 South African patients with chronic hepatitis B infection on lamivudine treatment. The profile of HBV genotypes as well as the genetic variability of pre-co...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Selabe SG,Song E,Burnett RJ,Mphahlele MJ

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV) establishes latency in neurons and recurrent infections in oral mucosa. This prospective study analyzes HSV prevalence in oral mucosal brush samples from men with known human papillomavirus (HPV) status. We hypothesized that HSV-1-infection could facilitate HPV persistence as a cofactor. Thi...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Mäki J,Paavilainen H,Kero K,Hukkanen V,Syrjänen S

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus is present in the saliva of most persistently infected individuals and is generally thought to be spread by close oral contact. However, there are now several reports of EBV in genital secretions, suggesting the possibility of sexual transmission between adults. The present study was undertaken to i...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Thomas R,Macsween KF,McAulay K,Clutterbuck D,Anderson R,Reid S,Higgins CD,Swerdlow AJ,Harrison N,Williams H,Crawford DH

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Acute respiratory infection (ARI) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children in low and middle-income countries. Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is one of the most common viral etiological agents for ARIs in children. OBJECTIVES:In this study, we explored the genotypic diversity and the epidemio...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Rahman MZ,Sumiya M,Sahabuddin M,Pell LG,Gubbay JB,Rahman R,Momtaz F,Azmuda N,Shanta SS,Jahan I,Rahman M,Mahmud AA,Roth DE,Morris SK

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:Recent epidemiological and immunohistochemical studies have indicated a possible link between measles virus and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of this study was to use a sensitive and robust method for the detection of measles virus RNA in IBD and control clinical samples. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chadwick N,Bruce IJ,Schepelmann S,Pounder RE,Wakefield AJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticosteroid use in transplant recipients increases the incidence and severity of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), a disease associated with KS-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) infection. Recently, the prototypic corticosteroid, hydrocortisone, was shown to directly induce lytic cycle reactivation of KSHV in latently-infected BC...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Zoeteweij JP,Rinderknecht AS,Davis DA,Yarchoan R,Blauvelt A

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many countries are studying currently the possibility of mass vaccination against varicella. The objective of this study was to provide a complete picture of the pre-vaccine epidemiology of the Varicella-Zoster Virus in England and Wales to aid in the design of immunisation programs. Population-based data including ge...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Brisson M,Edmunds WJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictive factors of HCV relapse after treatment with DAAs are poorly understood. In this study, we aimed to assess whether the residual viral load positivity observed during or at the end of treatment (EOT) has an impact on viral outcome. Blood samples were collected from 337 patients with genotypes (GT) 1a, 1b, 2, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Visco-Comandini U,Lapa D,Lionetti R,Taibi C,Loiacono L,Montalbano M,Capobianchi MR,D'Offizi G,Garbuglia AR

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00