Molecular characterization of group A rotavirus found in elderly patients in Ireland; predominance of G1P[8], continued presence of G9P[8], and emergence of G2P[4].

abstract：:The aims of the present study were to confirm measles outbreaks by detection of measles-specific IgM antibodies, isolation of measles virus, and genetic characterization to document the circulating genotypes in Tamil Nadu. Eight outbreaks were reported from six districts of Tamil Nadu, India during the period Jan-Dec ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ramamurty N,Raja D,Gunasekaran P,Varalakshmi E,Mohana S,Jin L

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of a daily continuous infusion of interferon-alpha was evaluated in 12 patients (10 males, 2 females; mean age of 33 years, range 19-62) with biopsy-proven chronic active hepatitis C. Nine million units (MU) of recombinant interferon-alpha 2A (rIFN-alpha 2A) were administered by continuous subcutaneo...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Carreño V,Tapia L,Ryff JC,Quiroga JA,Castillo I

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female renal transplant recipients have an increased incidence of human papillomavirus (HPV) associated lesions, such as cervical dysplasia and neoplasia [Schneider et al., 1983]. In this study we tested the serological responses by enzyme-linked immunoadsorbent assays (ELISA) to 3 different antigenic regions of HPV t...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lewensohn-Fuchs I,Wester D,Bistoletti P,Elfgren K,Ohlman S,Dillner J,Dalianis T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis B patients with low pre-treatment HBeAg (and HBV-DNA) levels are more likely to respond to interferon-alpha therapy. In retrospect, this low level of HBeAg may have been reached just before the start of therapy. Pre-treatment changes in HBeAg levels were studied in 121 patients undergoing interferon-...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Heijtink RA,Janssen HL,Hop WC,Osterhaus AD,Schalm SW

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative frequency and distribution of the VP4 (P) genotypes of 227 human rotavirus field strains were investigated in South Africa. The stool samples were collected between 1984-1993 from infants and young children with diarrhea at Ga-Rankuwa Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa. The RNA was extracted from stools, he...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Mphahlele MJ,Steele AD

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual specific antigenic rubella virus (RV) structural proteins are required for accurate serological diagnosis of acute and congenital rubella infections as well as rubella immune status. The RV envelope glycoprotein E1 is the major target antigen and plays an important role in viral-specific immune responses. T...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Seto NO,Gillam S

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：: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：:This is an audit of a new technique to improve the colposcopy service. Samples were tested for high risk HPV DNA using Digene Hybrid Capture II. Sixty-four percent of the sampled women under 30 had detectable high risk HPV DNA, decreasing to 44% in 30--39 year olds and to 27% in women over 40. High risk HPV prevalence...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Perrons C,Brink N,Jalal H,Watts P,Jelley R

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of picobirnaviruses (PBVs) in human stools was investigated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) analysis of 832 faecal specimens collected between 1982 and 1993 from patients in various clinical groups. Similar prevalences (9-13%) were detected in patients with or without gastroenteritis and th...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Gallimore CI,Appleton H,Lewis D,Green J,Brown DW

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells from a leiomyosarcoma tumor (LMS-1) from a patient with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were explanted, cultured in vitro, and studied by phase-contrast microscopy for morphologic and growth characteristics, immunostaining for cell markers, EBER in situ hybridization and polymerase chain reaction f...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Jenson HB,Montalvo EA,McClain KL,Ench Y,Heard P,Christy BA,Dewalt-Hagan PJ,Moyer MP

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus sequences were detected by RT-PCR in 14/15 (93%) of untreated sewage samples from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Phylogenetic analysis of amplicons at limiting dilution revealed the co-circulation of multiple variants of HEV-3, with a pattern of diversity matching that observed in a local cohort of HEV-inf...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Smith DB,Paddy JO,Simmonds P

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera of patients from China with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were tested for the presence of HBc/HBe- and HBx antibodies by immunoblotting using recombinant MS2 or beta gal fusion proteins as substrate. Antibodies against HBx were detected in four out of 68 HBsAg positive and in one out of three HBsAg negative sera...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Liang XH,Stemler M,Will H,Braun R,Tang ZY,Schröder CH

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-infection with hepatitis delta virus (HDV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been shown to be associated with a more severe form of acute and chronic hepatitis. Cloning and expression of recombinant HDV antigen (rHDAg) in Escherichiacoli are described. Using purified rHDAg, a cost-effective indirect anti-HDV enzyme-l...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Shen L,Gu Y,Sun L,Yang Y,Wang F,Li Y,Bi S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 127 nursing home residents aged 60-98 years were vaccinated during the winter of 1985-86 with the A-Chile 1/83 (C), A-Philippines 2/82 (P), and B-USSR (B) commercial influenza vaccines. Before vaccination 40%, 23%, and 69% were susceptible to influenza Ac, Ap, and B, respectively [hemagglutinin inhibition ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Keren G,Segev S,Morag A,Zakay-Rones Z,Barzilai A,Rubinstein E

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with putative non-A to E hepatitis virus, designated GB virus C (GBV-C), was surveyed in 286 patients with chronic liver disease in Japan. RNA of GBV-C was detected, by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction with nested primers from the 5'-noncoding region, in 19 patients (6.6%) at a frequency highe...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sugai Y,Nakayama H,Fukuda M,Sawada N,Tanaka T,Tsuda F,Okamoto H,Miyakawa Y,Mayumi M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms underlying chronicity of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are poorly understood, but the importance of impaired viral clearance by the immune system has been suggested. The prevalence of HCV infection of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) was in investigated in 34 persistently infected patients ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Zignego AL,De Carli M,Monti M,Careccia G,La Villa G,Giannini C,D'Elios MM,Del Prete G,Gentilini P

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient method for cloning subgenomic fragments of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) was developed, utilizing its abundant single-stranded replicative intermediates. The total genomic DNA obtained from the liver tissue of patients with chronic HBV infection was treated by using the Klenow fragment of E. coli DNA polyme...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kajino K,Ohta Y,Miyamura T,Saito I

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of 505 cases history of patients among men with viral hepatitis demonstrates that HBV infected patients represent 68.9% of the total and that a non-parenteral rate of transmission is the most likely means of hepatitis B infection. Saliva and serum testing for the presence of specific HBV markers (HBsAg, HBeAg...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Zhevachevsky NG,Nomokonova NY,Beklemishev AB,Belov GF

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ZIKV infection has become a global threat spreading across 31 countries in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. However, little information is available about the molecular epidemiology of ZIKV. Shared mutation of a threonine residue to alanine at the same position in the C terminal of NS5 sequences was ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Adiga R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) containing unmethylated CpG dinucleotides within the context of certain flanking bases (CpG motifs) have been shown to induce potent innate and adaptive immune responses. Vaginal delivery of CpG ODN alone protects mice from vaginal herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) challenge. He...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sajic D,Ashkar AA,Patrick AJ,McCluskie MJ,Davis HL,Levine KL,Holl R,Rosenthal KL

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses produce assembly proteins (AP) that act as scaffolding proteins for the assembly of the viral capsids. The products of the assemblin gene, which encodes both maturational protease and AP, have been established for herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and human cytomegalovirus (CMV). We cloned an inframe O...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Garcia-Valcarcel M,Fowler WJ,Harper DR,Jeffries DJ,Layton GT

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BK virus (BKV) establishes a persistent, asymptomatic infection in more than 80% of the human population, and in immunocompromised individuals BKV causes acute urinary tract infections. Two forms of BKV, archetype and rearranged, have been recovered previously from urine samples. The rearranged form is believed to hav...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chatterjee M,Weyandt TB,Frisque RJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic drift of the hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) proteins of the influenza virus cause a decrease in vaccine efficacy. Since the information about the evolution of these viruses in Saudi is deficient so we investigated the genetic diversity of circulating H1N1 viruses. Nasopharyngeal aspirates/swabs co...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Naeem A,Elbakkouri K,Alfaiz A,Hamed ME,Alsaran H,AlOtaiby S,Enani M,Alosaimi B

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We read with great interest the recent issue,1 which raised the concern about the co-circulation of dengue during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lin SF,Lai CC,Chao CM,Tang HJ

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported an age-associated impairment of serum immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody responses to inactivated influenza virus vaccine. The present study extends these observations by examining the IgG subclass distribution of vaccine responses measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay in healthy adults age...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Powers DC

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) is the etiologic agent of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). Several studies indicate horizontal HHV-8 transmission among children in areas where KS is endemic, but few studies have assessed acquisition of HHV-8 by children in low seroprevalence areas. Antibody screening was carried out for HHV-8 and E...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Martro E,Bulterys M,Stewart JA,Spira TJ,Cannon MJ,Thacher TD,Bruns R,Pellett PE,Dollard SC

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Attachment of hepatitis B virus to a hepatoblastoma cell line (HepG2) was examined using a synthetic peptide corresponding to the pre-S1 (21-47) region of the envelope protein. Scatchard analysis revealed a single class binding site of Kd 104 +/- 27 nM/l and 5.4 +/- 1.2 x 10(5) sites per cell. Competition of HBV with ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Dash S,Rao KV,Panda SK

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:False negativity in a commercial anti-HIV kit (IMx HIV-1/HIV-2 3rd Generation Plus (code 8B32) was investigated, and the kit that superseded it (IMx HIV-1/HIV-2 III Plus, code 8C98) was evaluated. In a comparison on 574 freshly collected anti-HIV-1-positive specimens, 97.2% were more reactive in 8C98 than in 8B32; 35....

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Parry JV,Perry KR,Harbour S,Burgess C,Mortimer PP,Blackburn NK,Martin D

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00