Mother-to-Child Transmission Outcomes of HIV-Exposed Infants Followed Up in Jos North-Central Nigeria.

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-1+ long-term nonprogressors (LTNPs) maintain natural control of viral infection. This study sought to identify and characterize HIV- LTNPs series case, regarding the presence of possible host factors that may be associated with this status. METHODS:We evaluated the plasma levels of IP-10/IL-8 chemokines...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Dos Santos JS,de Almeida SM,Ferreira GS,Bordignon J,Maia Teixeira SL,Martins Lima AC,Raboni SM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two HIV-1 non B isolates, 98US_MSC5007 and 98US_MSC5016, which have been identified amongst the US Army personnel serving abroad, are known to have originated from other nations. Notwithstanding, they are categorized as American strains. This is because their countries of origin are unknown. American isolates are basi...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Nwankwo N

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus has evolved several redundant mechanisms to remove its receptor, the CD4 molecule, from the cell surface. Indeed, HIV-1 encodes three proteins, Nef, Vpu and Env, that have a profound effect on CD4 trafficking and catabolism. Given this functional convergence, it is believed that cell surfa...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Levesque K,Finzi A,Binette J,Cohen EA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta defensins are antimicrobial peptides that serve to protect the host from microbial invasion at skin and mucosal surfaces. Here we explore the relationships among beta defensin levels, total bacterial colonization, and colonization by bacterial vaginosis (BV)-related bacteria and lactobacilli in the female genital...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Jiang W,Ghosh SK,Flyckt R,Kalinowska M,Starks D,Jurevic R,Weinberg A,Lederman MM,Rodriguez B

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Suboptimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a strong predictor of virologic failure (VF) among people with HIV. Various methods such as patient self-report, pill counts and pharmacy refills have been utilized to monitor adherence. However, there are limited data on the accuracy of combining metho...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Wu P,Johnson BA,Nachega JB,Wu B,Ordonez CE,Hare AQ,Kearns R,Murphy R,Sunpath H,Marconi VC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) can bring HIV-1 in blood plasma to level undetectable by standard tests, prevent the onset of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and allow a near-normal life expectancy for HIV-infected individuals. Unfortunately, cART is not curative, as within a few weeks of ...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Rausch JW,Le Grice SFJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa now occur in married and cohabiting couples, many of whom do not realize that only one of them may be infected with HIV. HIV-negative individuals living in stable HIV-discordant partnerships (in which one partner is HIV-infected while the other one is not) are twice as lik...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Matovu JK

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report the study of tryptophan metabolism via serotonin in ventricular CSF in HIV-1 infection in order to investigate the origin of tryptophan metabolites in the human brain. The patients (n=4) were affected with non-communicating hydrocephalus. One of these also was suffering from HIV-1 infection. Th...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Longatti P,Perin A,Comai S,Bertazzo A,Rizzo V,Costa CV,Allegri G

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular protein "Bone marrow stromal antigen 2" (BST2 also called Tetherin, CD317, HM1.24) was identified as a major mediator of the innate immune defense against the dissemination of enveloped viruses. BST2 was shown to physically trap the de novo formed viral particles at the surface of infected cells, thereby ...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Janvier K,Roy N,Berlioz-Torrent C

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Adolescent girls throughout the globe are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection. In the U.S., sexually-active, adolescent girls in urban settings are at elevated risk for HIV. The purpose of this study was to describe a theoreticallydriven, HIV prevention intervention tailored for adolescent girls and eva...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Morrison-Beedy D,Crean HF,Passmore D,Carey MP

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In HIV-1, tRNA(Lys3) serves as the primer for reverse transcriptase, and during viral assembly, the tRNA(Lys) isoacceptors, tRNA(Lys1,2) and tRNA(Lys3), are selectively packaged into the virion. In this review, we shall first discuss the evidence for the formation of a tRNA(Lys) packaging complex, whose components inc...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Kleiman L,Halwani R,Javanbakht H

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vaccine against HIV-1 is not currently available. In present, Virus like particles (VLPs) as effective strategy was used in several vaccine developing. Two conserved sequences; V3 loop of gp120 and the membrane-proximal external region (MPER) of gp41 are dominant sites for vaccine studies. OBJECTIVE:In this...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Tohidi F,Sadat SM,Bolhassani A,Yaghobi R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiretroviral drug therapy has significantly improved the prognosis and life expectancy of people living with HIV over the years. But this progress comes with an important caveat that antiretroviral regimens generally require adherence to life-long, daily dosing, to keep viral multiplication under check. Non-adherenc...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Labh R,Gupta R

更新日期：2020-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization is an important measure to protect HIV-infected children and adults against certain vaccine preventable diseases. However, the antibody response, which is associated with the level of CD4+ T cell count, is frequently impaired in this group of patients. Certain vaccines enhance virus replication and transi...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Pancharoen C,Ananworanich J,Thisyakorn U

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Manipur is one of the highest HIV prevalence states of India because of its geographical location at the international border near the golden triangle of South-East Asia, but no study on drug resistance associated mutations (DRAMs) has been reported yet. OBJECTIVE:A population-based study on DRAMs of HIV-1 ...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Lakhikumar Sharma A,Ramsing Singh T,Ranjana Devi K,Shanjukumar Singh L

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among HIV positive patients, Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) or biopsy for diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenopathy is often avoided due to an unspoken stigma. Earlier, we had developed a clinical scoring scale for the diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis (TBLN), which had 88% sensitivity and detected no fals...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Purohit SD,Purohit V,Mathur ML

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of the human immunodeficiency virus by host cells inhibits viral dissemination by creating non-functional variants. However, viral mutation does not always eliminate the ability of the virus to disseminate and, in fact, is thought to promote persistence by generating functional mutants that evade immunity or ...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Balin SJ,Ross TM,Platt JL,Cascalho M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 10 years substantial progress has been made in the implementation of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In spite of this, new pediatric infections remain unacceptably high, contributing the majority (>90%) of the estimated 390,000 infectio...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Aizire J,Fowler MG,Coovadia HM

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of pre-exposure prophylactics or microbicide products for the reduction or elimination of the sexual transmission of HIV has numerous challenges or barriers to success. Historically traditional dosage forms such as gels have been developed in the field but more recently controlled release dosage forms ...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Agashe H,Hu M,Rohan L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human milk banking has been promoted to provide donated breast milk for at-risk children whose mothers cannot breastfeed them but this effort was hindered by the advent of HIV epidemic. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the seroprevalence of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B in the blood of human milk donors registered in ...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Kupek E,Savi EO

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While significant progress has been made since 2003 when a comprehensive treatment, prevention and control program was implemented to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in China, new challenges are emerging. There have been limited direct case reports on profiles of HIV/AIDS patients under care at unique clinical settings i...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Jiao Y,Zhang T,Wang S,Liu Q,Zhou H,Lu S,Wu H

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently described that the chloroxoquinolinic ribonucleoside 6-chloro-1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-1-(beta-D-ribofuranosyl) quinoline-3-carboxylic acid (compound A) inhibits the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) enzyme reverse transcriptase (RT), and its replication in primary cells. Based on these findings, we per...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Souza TM,Rodrigues DQ,Ferreira VF,Marques IP,da Costa Santos F,Cunha AC,de Souza MC,de Palmer Paixão Frugulhetti IC,Bou-Habib DC,Fontes CF

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vitamin D deficiency is common in HIV population and has been associated with increased comorbidity risk and poor immunologic status. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of protease inhibitor lopinavir/ritonavir monotherapy on changes in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] over 48 weeks. METHODS:Thirty-four t...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Crutchley RD,Jacobs DM,Gathe J,Mayberry C,Bulayeva N,Rosenblatt KP,Garey KW

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:After the infusion of HIV-1 virus into a host cell, RNA is reverse transcribed to dsDNA, which persists intracellular to the infected cell in a variety of forms. Numerous in-house assays have been developed for the quantification of the different cellular HIV-1 DNA forms; these implement conventional or real-time PCR ...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Beloukas A,Paraskevis D,Psichogiou M,Hatzakis A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been known for decades that exogenous RNAs are able to induce cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and immunological reactivity to a wide variety of antigens. The molecular events responsible for these effects remain unclear for more than two decades. It has been decided to revisit this phenomenon in the light of new...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Watanabe MA,de Souza LR,Murad JM,De Lucca FL

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a global health burden which ultimately results in acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). There are multiple host factors which are capable of limiting HIV-1 replication. One of the most important host factors which inhibit HIV-1 DNA synthesis is the apoli...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Iqbal K,Imran M,Ullah S,Jamal M,Waheed Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC), a major cause of pelvic inflammatory disease, can facilitate HIV transmission. In response to GC infection, genital epithelial cells can produce cytokines, chemokines and defensins to modulate HIV infection and infectivity. GC can also induce the production of cytokines and chemokines in mo...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Jarvis GA,Chang TL

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple factors have been previously described which could influence adherence to HAART. Our objective is to determine the fundamental factors which influence adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy in our population. METHODS:A cross-sectional study was made selecting 143 outpatients attending ou...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Moralejo L,Inés S,Marcos M,Fuertes A,Luna G

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:HIV lipodystrophy is characterised by abnormal adipose tissue distribution and metabolism, as a result of altered adipocyte function and gene expression. The protease inhibitor ritonavir is associated with the development of lipodystrophy. Quantifying changes in adipogenic gene expression in the presence of r...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Loonam CR,O'Dell SD,Sharp PA,Mullen A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the years, numerous studies have been carried out demonstrating the role of antibodies in HIV control leading to the development of antibody-based therapeutic and prophylactic strategies. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this review is to provide updated information on the role of antibodies in the preventio...

journal_title：Current HIV research

authors： Fabra-Garcia A,Beltran C,Sanchez-Merino V,Yuste E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00