Complement-mediated cytolytic activity associated with cytomegalovirus complement-fixing IgM antibody.

abstract：:With virus-infected autologous and allogenic mononuclear cells as specific targets, the development of cell-mediated cytotoxic reactivity to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was studied in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) in groups of infants with acute RSV infection and in other control groups of subjects during a...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chiba Y,Higashidate Y,Suga K,Honjo K,Tsutsumi H,Ogra PL

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：:Many patients with mixed cryoglobulinemia and chronic HCV infection experience symptoms, such as dyspnea, which sometimes do not seem to indicate the involvement of the liver but rather the symptoms of heart failure. To our knowledge, there has been no other study evaluating the serum levels of N-terminal pro-brain na...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Antonelli A,Ferri C,Ferrari SM,Ghiri E,Galetta F,Franzoni F,Santoro G,Fallahi P

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well documented that perinatal transmission is the major cause of chronic HBV infection in China. However, the mechanisms of HBV perinatal transmission are not defined clearly. It is not known whether hepatitis B e antigen can cross the human placenta, and the rate of HBeAg decay in babies with and without HBV b...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wang Z,Zhang J,Yang H,Li X,Wen S,Guo Y,Sun J,Hou J

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological and molecular study of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection was carried out in Brazilian hemodialysis centers. A total of 1,095 patients in all 15 hemodialysis centers in the State of Goiás, Brazil, were studied. All patients were interviewed for possible risk factors to HCV infection and serum samples...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Carneiro MA,Teles SA,Lampe E,Espírito-Santo MP,Gouveia-Oliveira R,Reis NR,Yoshida CF,Martins RM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection can cause severe acute and chronic liver disease in patients infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV). Despite the significant decline in the global HDV infection, it remains a major health concern in some countries. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and clinical features of...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kim HS,Kim SJ,Park HW,Shin WG,Kim KH,Lee JH,Kim HY,Jang MK

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dried blood spots collected on filter paper are considered potential clinical specimens for measles surveillance because of their ease of collection, storage, and transport. The usefulness of these samples for surveillance of measles was evaluated in a field setting. Blood spots were collected by finger-prick from 316...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： El Mubarak HS,Yüksel S,Mustafa OM,Ibrahim SA,Osterhaus AD,de Swart RL

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:Over the past decade, a G4P[6] strain has been found to be circulating in different neonatal wards in the Pretoria area. This endemic strain was associated with both asymptomatic and symptomatic infection, providing the opportunity to undertake a molecular study of some of the putative "virulence" genes. The genes enc...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Pager CT,Alexander JJ,Steele AD

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal injection drug use and peripheral blood mononuclear cell infection by hepatitis C virus are important risk factors for perinatal transmission of the virus. The aim of present study was to evaluate the independent association of these two factors on perinatal transmission. Forty-eight consecutive mothers who t...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Azzari C,Moriondo M,Indolfi G,Betti L,Gambineri E,de Martino M,Resti M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:The hepatitis B virus (HBV) prevalence study performed in 2003 in Belgium is believed to be underestimating HBV prevalence due to underrepresentation of the non-Belgian population. Therefore, we assessed the prevalence and risk factors of HBV infection in a multi-ethnic region situated in Middle-Limb...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Koc ÖM,Kremer C,Bielen R,Buscchots D,Hens N,Nevens F,Robaeys G

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a dynamic process during which molecular variants are selected continuously to adapt to changes. In addition to drug resistant mutations, sequential antiviral therapy may also lead to the selection of deleted mutants. To investigate this process, the following samples were collecte...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ji F,Zhou L,Ma S,Li F,Ding H,Zeng C

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is a pleiotropic cytokine with pivotal functions in the regulation of the biological responses of several target cells, including hepatocytes. Previous studies have shown that serum IL-6 levels are increased in hepatitis B patients. However, the role of IL-6 in modulating the anti-hepatitis B viru...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Yang K,Guan S,Zhang H,Chen Z

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study compared the efficacy of standard and extended durations of PEG-IFNα-2a monotherapy for treatment of HBeAg-negative Chinese patients with chronic hepatitis B. Patients were randomized to receive standard therapy (n = 38; 48 weeks treatment) or extended therapy (n = 42; 72 weeks treatment). Extended t...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chen X,Chen X,Chen W,Ma X,Huang J,Chen R

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphisms upstream interleukin (IL)-28B gene and serum levels of interferon gamma inducible protein-10 (IP-10) are associated with spontaneous and treatment-induced hepatitis C virus (HCV) clearance. Patients with seronegative occult HCV infection are anti-HCV and serum HCV-RNA negative but have viral RNA in liver...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Bartolomé J,Castillo I,Quiroga JA,Carreño V

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:In nature, the cricetid Calomys musculinus is the principal host of Junin virus, the etiological agent of Argentine hemorrhagic fever. In the experimental infection, adult C. musculinus survived whereas newborns died after intraperitoneal inoculation with the XJ.Cl3 strain of Junin virus. The role of peritoneal macrop...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Coulombié FC,Alché LE,Lampuri JS,Coto CE

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses to influenza vaccination are poor in frail elderly subjects who suffer the greatest morbidity and mortality due to infection. Therefore, a randomized clinical trial was performed to determine the effect of a double dose and booster vaccination on antibody responses after influenza vaccination. A total of 815...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Roos-Van Eijndhoven DG,Cools HJ,Westendorp RG,Ten Cate-Hoek AJ,Knook DL,Remarque EJ

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serological survey for antibodies to hepatitis C virus (HCV), dengue viruses (DEN), West Nile virus (WN), and sindbis virus (SIN) was carried out in sera of selected groups of the population of the Islands of Mauritius (n = 449) and Rodrigues (n = 115), Indian Ocean. 8.3% of 564 sera were positive for anti-HCV. In M...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Schwarz TF,Dobler G,Gilch S,Jäger G

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：:In total 1,525 blood serum samples were collected in October, 2013 in Russian Asia from people who reside in territories that are at high risk for emergence of influenza viruses with pandemic potential. Presence of antibodies to influenza viruses in the sera was tested in hemagglutination inhibition test. None of the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ilyicheva T,Abdurashitov M,Durymanov A,Susloparov I,Goncharova N,Kolosova N,Mikheev V,Ryzhikov A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resurgence of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in the form of unprecedented and explosive epidemics in India and the Indian Ocean islands after a gap of 32 years is a major public health concern. Currently, there is no specific therapy available to treat CHIKV infection. In the present study, the in vitro prophylactic an...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Khan M,Santhosh SR,Tiwari M,Lakshmana Rao PV,Parida M

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To design a safe and effective synthetic peptide vaccine against rubella virus (RV) infection, it is necessary to identify immunodominant T-cell epitopes of RV structural proteins. To define such epitopes, 49 overlapping synthetic peptides (17-34 residues in length) corresponding to more than 95% of the amino acid seq...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ou D,Chong P,Tingle AJ,Gillam S

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：:Guinea pigs infected with Argentine hemorrhagic fever virus (Junin) were treated with pooled, homologous convalescent sera. Use of 15,000 or 5,000 therapeutic units of immune sera prevented all signs of illness when administered within 24 hr of infection. We could also prevent illness and death in infected guinea pigs...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kenyon RH,Green DE,Eddy GA,Peters CJ

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, data examining nationally representative prevalence and trends of HBV or HCV among specific subgroups of pregnant women in the US are unavailable. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of hospitalizations for liveborn singleton deliveries from 1998 to 2011 using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Salemi JL,Spooner KK,Mejia de Grubb MC,Aggarwal A,Matas JL,Salihu HM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been implicated in vascular pathologies and may warrant inclusion in cardiovascular predictive algorithms. We addressed this in healthy older adults and renal transplant recipients (RTR) as they retain a high burden of CMV. RTR (n  =  45) stable more than 2 years after transplantation and 58 ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Affandi JS,Lee S,Chih H,Brook E,Waters S,Howson P,Reid CM,Irish A,Price P

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Early estimates of the prevalence of TTV viremia in healthy adults of developed countries were in the order of 1--10 %, while similar estimates in Third World countries were considerably higher. Using three different PCRs, TTV-related DNA was detected in serum from 180 out of the 201 Norwegian blood donors tested, ind...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Huang LY,Oystein Jonassen T,Hungnes O,Grinde B

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), which is one of several arenaviruses that are pathogenic for humans, causes encephalitis and meningitis in man. In this study, single-stage and nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays were developed that targeted the GPC and N genes of LCMV. Bot...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Park JY,Peters CJ,Rollin PE,Ksiazek TG,Gray B,Waites KB,Stephensen CB

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus-like particle(s) (CVLP) are faecal-derived pleomorphic membrane bound virus-like particles characterised by a fringe of club-shaped spikes that measure about 27 nm in length. The association of CVLP with a variety of social, clinical, and epidemiological factors was examined after a 69 month survey of faec...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Marshall JA,Thompson WL,Gust ID

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00