Review: Occult hepatitis C virus infection: still remains a controversy.

abstract：:In order to assess the current seroepidemiology of hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection in Taiwan where hepatitis B virus (HBV) is hyperendemic, a total of 756 voluntary blood donors, 641 prostitutes, 1,014 patients with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and 628 drug abusers were studied. Radioimmunoassays were used ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chen CJ,Tseng SF,Lu CF,Lin HC,You SL,Chen CS,Hwang SJ,Hsieh SF,Hsu ST

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:Some aspects of rotavirus humoral immunity were assessed on the basis of distinguishing serotype-specific specificities (VP4/VP7) by using rotavirus reassortants, human and animal strains in neutralization assays in serum samples obtained during the acute phase, and 1, 6 and 12 months after primary natural infection. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Rojas AM,Boher Y,Guntiñas MJ,Pérez-Schael I

更新日期：1995-12-01 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：:Present diagnostic criteria for occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection requires blood or liver samples to test positive for at least two HBV DNA targets in hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) negative individuals. These criteria were derived from studies involving referred or selected patient populations. The object...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Minuk GY,Huynh C,Uhanova J,Osiowy C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA plays a critical role in determining the level of viral replication in HBV-infected patients. However, how to select appropriate HBV DNA detection method, low-sensitivity (ls) and hypersensitivity (hs) remains unclear. In this study, hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), hep...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Liu C,Wu W,Shang S,Huang E,Xun Z,Lin J,Chen T,Yang B,Chen J,Ou Q

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the Joint National Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the northeastern region of India has the highest HIV prevalence in the country. This study was conducted to determine the current HIV-1 molecular epidemiology of Manipur, a state in northeast India. Blood samples from HIV-1 seropositive subjects were coll...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sharma AL,Singh TR,Devi KR,Singh LS

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) virions have been shown to be bound to antibodies in patients with chronic HCV infection. The sera from patients infected with genotype 1b HCV contained more antibody-free virions than those from patients with genotype 2a/2b HCV. When compared at the same levels of serum HCV RNA, free virion ti...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kimura Y,Hayashida K,Ishibashi H,Niho Y,Yanagi Y

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroviruses are responsible for hand, foot, and mouth disease, and have caused many deaths in China during recent years. But the natural history of enterovirus infection in children, especially asymptomatic children, is not yet clear. From April 2011 to May 2012, 505 stool and throat swab samples of children attendi...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Cai J,Lv H,Lin J,Chen Z,Fang C,Han J

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Monoclonal antibodies were raised against hepatitis B core antigen (HBcAg) synthesized in Escherichia coli. They identified a single immunodominant determinant on both liver-derived and E. coli-derived HBcAg. Cross-inhibition studies demonstrated that HBsAg-containing human sera which contained antibodies to HBcAg (an...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ferns RB,Tedder RS

更新日期：1986-06-01 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：:Few studies have examined the etiology of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients without hepatitis virus infection. We evaluated the role of occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in the development of HCC in Japanese patients without hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and antibodies to hepatitis C antigen (ant...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tamori A,Nishiguchi S,Kubo S,Narimatsu T,Habu D,Takeda T,Hirohashi K,Shiomi S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapy failure due to drug resistance development is a common phenomenon in HIV-infected patients. However, when the drug pressure leads to the earliest selection of drug-resistant HIV-1 populations is still unclear. In this study, the extent to which selection of the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase M184I/V mutations occ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Bergroth T,Ekici H,Gisslén M,Loes SK,Goh LE,Freedman A,Lampe F,Johnson MA,Sönnerborg A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For assessing the role of circulating immune complexes (CIC) in chronic hepatitis C, the relative frequency of CIC was determined in 54 patients with chronic hepatitis C, 15 asymptomatic hepatitis C virus (HCV) carriers, and 54 healthy controls. IgM and IgG containing CIC were studied using both C1q and conglutinin (K...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tsai JF,Jeng JE,Chang WY,Ho MS,Lin ZY,Tsai JH

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:The criterion standard for the diagnosis of occult hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is detection of HCV-RNA in liver cells. However, because of the invasive nature of liver biopsy, other methods have been studied. The present study aimed to identify subjects with occult HCV-4 infection among healthy sexual partners o...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： El Shazly Y,Hemida K,Rafik M,Al Swaff R,Ali-Eldin ZA,GadAllah S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are limited reports on the etiology of multiple enteric viruses causing acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in North India. In the present study we have determined the prevalence of three enteric viruses, namely rotavirus, astrovirus (AstV) and adenovirus (AdV) in a total of 312 diarrheic children (<5 years) hospitalize...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Akdag AI,Gupta S,Khan N,Upadhayay A,Ray P

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotaviruses were detected via electron microscopy in fecal specimens collected from school children during an outbreak of diarrhea and from a sporadic case in 1993 in Japan. All of the viruses were found to belong to human group C rotavirus by reverse passive hemagglutination assay (RPHA). These viruses replicated wel...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Shinozaki K,Yamanaka T,Tokieda M,Shirasawa H,Simizu B

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noroviruses (called formerly "Norwalk-like viruses") cause food-borne gastroenteritis outbreaks. These outbreaks were thought to be related to shellfish consumption, although non-shellfish related outbreaks also occurred frequently in Japan. To clarify the epidemiology of Norovirus outbreaks, 435 stool samples were co...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Hamano M,Kuzuya M,Fujii R,Ogura H,Yamada M

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiology, transmission and clinical symptoms of human parechoviruses [HPeV, classified earlier as enteroviruses; echovirus 22 (HPeV1) and echovirus 23 (HPeV2)] remain poorly characterized. Enteroviruses and one parechovirus species, the Ljungan virus, have been associated with type 1 diabetes in humans and rod...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tauriainen S,Martiskainen M,Oikarinen S,Lönnrot M,Viskari H,Ilonen J,Simell O,Knip M,Hyöty H

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotavirus infection is associated both in vivo and in vitro with a series of subcellular pathological alterations leading to cell lysis. It has been suggested that these modifications can play a key role in the pathogenesis of rotavirus-associated diarrheal disease. We describe the effects of SA-11 rotavirus infection...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Superti F,Ammendolia MG,Tinari A,Bucci B,Giammarioli AM,Rainaldi G,Rivabene R,Donelli G

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological factors, such as cytokines, have been proposed as a cause of changes in the lipid profile of dengue patients. We studied whether serum lipid levels and serum TNF-α levels are associated in a group of dengue patients from an endemic region in the Northwest of Mexico. We found statistically important diffe...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Osuna-Ramos JF,Rendón-Aguilar H,Reyes-Ruiz JM,Del Ángel RM,Romero-Utrilla A,Ríos-Burgueño ER,Velarde-Rodriguez I,Velarde-Félix JS

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

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：:The TT virus (TTV) was isolated recently from the serum of a patient with post-transfusion hepatitis. TTV infection is widespread in the general population, and its prevalence increases continuously with age. The pathogenic role of TTV in liver disease remains controversial, and the source of transmission is still unc...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Komatsu H,Inui A,Sogo T,Kuroda K,Tanaka T,Fujisawa T

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether booster doses are required to maintain long-term protection against hepatitis B virus (HBV) after primary vaccination remains to be determined. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the immune memory responses to hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) challenge in vaccinated individuals thro...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： do Livramento A,Schultz J,Batista KZ,Treitinger A,de Cordova CM,Spada C

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred twelve peripheral blood specimens were tested for the presence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) by the tube culture indirect immunoperoxidase (TC-IPA) procedure, the shell vial assay [shell vials were pre- and postinoculation treated with medium containing 2 of 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) or 100 micrograms% corti...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lipson SM,Kaplan MH,Simon JK,Ciamician Z,Tseng LF

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：:The contribution of viruses to lower respiratory tract disease in sub-Saharan Africa where human immunodeficiency virus may exacerbate respiratory infections is not well defined. No data exist on some of these viruses for Southern Africa. Comprehensive molecular screening may define the role of these viruses as single...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Venter M,Lassaunière R,Kresfelder TL,Westerberg Y,Visser A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to detect type-specific high risk HPV (HR-HPV) infections in samples from females and males is important for monitoring the epidemiology of HPV and the impact of vaccination. Type-specific detection concordance between paired urine and genital samples from females (n = 264) undergoing routine colposcopy an...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Bissett SL,Howell-Jones R,Swift C,De Silva N,Biscornet L,Parry JV,Saunders NA,Nathan M,Soldan K,Szarewski A,Cuzick J,Beddows S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00