Impact of disease-modifying drugs on the severity of  COVID-19 infection in multiple sclerosis patients.

abstract：:Interleukin 33 (IL-33) and soluble form of ST2 (sST2) are involved in inflammation. This study aimed to assess the role of serum IL-33 and sST2 in neonates with HCMV infection. The concentration of serum IL-33 and sST2 in 20 patients and 16 healthy controls were measure by enzyme-linked immune-sorbent assay (ELISA). T...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chen Y,Qian J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicochemical studies of hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) revealed a clear cut difference between e1 and e2 antigen. The e1 antigen was found to have a MW of Ca 150,000 and a pI of 6.4-7.2, whereas both the MW and pI of the e2 antigen were heterogeneous depending upon the source of serum. Sera obtained from asymptomati...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Yamada E,Ohori H,Ishida N

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has reassessed the usefulness of historic convalescent plasma transfusion (CPT). This review was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of CPT therapy in COVID-19 patients based on the publications reported till date. To our knowledge, this is the f...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Rajendran K,Krishnasamy N,Rangarajan J,Rathinam J,Natarajan M,Ramachandran A

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1999 and 2007 1,388 stool specimens from patients with acute flaccid paralysis or aseptic meningitis were submitted to the Austrian reference laboratory for poliomyelitis. Samples (201) yielded non-poliovirus enterovirus in culture. One hundred eighty-one viruses were available for typing and 78 isolates which...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ortner B,Huang CW,Schmid D,Mutz I,Wewalka G,Allerberger F,Yang JY,Huemer HP

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is controlled tightly by virus-specific T cells. EBV infection is reactivated intermittently over time, even in apparently healthy carriers. Changes in frequency and reactivity of memory T cells, particularly of CD8(+) origin, have not been assessed in this context. It is ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Vogl BA,Fagin U,Nerbas L,Schlenke P,Lamprecht P,Jabs WJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faeces from 746 children less than 5 years old with acute gastroenteritis were screened for the presence of adenovirus particles or antigens by immunoelectron microscopy (IEM) and enzyme immunoassay (EIA). Thirty-five samples were positive by both IEM and EIA, two only by IEM, and two only by EIA, giving a total of 39...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Leite JP,Pereira HG,Azeredo RS,Schatzmayr HG

更新日期：1985-02-01 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：:Patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) commonly suffer from opportunistic infections associated with members of the herpes virus family. To investigate whether certain of these other viruses might have an effect on the ability of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) to replicate, we coincub...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tremblay M,Gornitsky M,Wainberg MA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foscarnet (trisodium phosphonoformate) is a novel antiviral agent that inhibits viral-specific DNA polymerase. In the present study, eight males with chronic HBV carriage (HBeAg and HBV-DNA seropositivity greater than 12 months) showing chronic persistent hepatitis (CPH) or chronic active hepatitis (CAH) on liver biop...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Bain VG,Daniels HM,Chanas A,Alexander GJ,Williams R

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the framework of a comprehensive study of the correlation between enteric diseases and wastewater utilization in agricultural settlements (kibbutzim) the prevalence of several viral antibodies was examined among kibbutz residents and overseas volunteers. The latter were assumed to be a group highly susceptible ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Margalith M,Fattal B,Shuval HI,Morag A

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetylethyleneimine (AEI) was used to inactivate the avirulent Togavirus Semliki Forest virus (A774 strain) grown in chick embryo, Vero, and brain cell cultures. The purity of the virus preparation affected the kinetics of inactivation. The rate of inactivation increased with a rise in temperature from 5 to 40 degre...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Amor S,Webb HE

更新日期：1986-08-01 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：:A sensitive radioimmunoassay technique was used to detect hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg). A strong correlation was found between HBeAg positivity of the serum of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carrier women in Taiwan and the subsequent development of surface antigenemia in their babies. All babies who became chron...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Stevens CE,Neurath RA,Beasley RP,Szmuness W

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and cardiac allograft rejection is controversial, some authors reporting a significant association, others not, on the basis of the results of conventional virological diagnosis by culture or serology. This problem was reinvestigated in 88 patients using a semi-...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Fernando S,Booth J,Boriskin Y,Butcher P,Carrington D,Steel H,Tryhorn Y,Corbishley C,Keeling P,Murday A

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of antibody to hepatitis A virus (anti-HAV) in 60% of procured owl monkeys (Aotus trivirgatus) held within the United States prompted a study of recently captured A trivirgatus in Panama. Only 2 of 145 newly captured monkeys, but all of 35 A trivirgatus held within a colony for over 100 days, were found t...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lemon SM,LeDuc JW,Binn LN,Escajadillo A,Ishak KG

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus fragments homologous to TTV were detected previously from an enterically transmitted outbreak of non-A-E hepatitis [Luo et al., 1999]. To test the susceptibility of the Rhesus monkey to this virus and to establish its transmission routes, 6 Rhesus monkeys were inoculated, 3 orally and another 3 intravenously. Th...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Luo K,Liang W,He H,Yang S,Wang Y,Xiao H,Liu D,Zhang L

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary infection, seroconversion, and transmitted drug resistance (TDR) during pregnancy may influence the risk of mother-to-child-transmission (MTCT) of HIV-1 infection. This study estimated recent seroconversion, TDR rates, HIV-1 subtypes and pregnancy outcomes among 95 recently diagnosed, antiretroviral (ARV)-naïv...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lima YA,Cardoso LP,Reis MN,Stefani MM

更新日期：2016-11-01 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

abstract：:Rotavirus was detected in the stools of five children stricken with sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) over a three-week period. While none of the children had acute gastroenteritis, four of the five had acute upper respiratory infections. Rotavirus was also identified in tracheal aspirates from two of the infants. E...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Yolken R,Murphy M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared characteristics of patients with GB virus C/hepatitis G virus (GBV-C/HGV) RNA to those of patients with GBV-C/HGV E2-antibody. GBV-C/HGV RNA and GBV-C/HGV antibody were assayed in 83 persons with hemophilia using a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, re...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Toyoda H,Takahashi I,Fukuda Y,Hayakawa T,Takamatsu J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To establish gut immunity in monkeys to polio-virus type 1, we fed four juvenile bonnet monkeys (Macaca radiata) with 100 median infectious doses of the Mahoney strain of virus. The duration of viral shedding in the throat and faeces and the titre of virus in faeces were measured. Eighteen days after the last monkey s...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Selvakumar R,John TJ

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：:Until recently, human cytomegalovirus (hCMV) infection and anti-CMV treatment in transplanted patients have been monitored essentially by pp65 antigenemia, which is time-consuming and requires experienced operators. For the last two years, pp65 antigenemia levels have tended to be lower than previously in our laborato...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Schvoerer E,Henriot S,Zachary P,Freitag R,Fuchs A,Fritsch S,Risch S,Meyer N,Caillard S,Lioure B,Stoll-Keller F

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：:Some international guidelines recommend evaluating the need to confirm positive anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody screening results by means of a more specific antibody or molecular biology test on the basis of a screening threshold value (such as the sample signal/cut-off ratio) that can predict the positivity of...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： De Paschale M,Manco MT,Arpino O,Ricucci V,Paganini A,Belvisi L,Cagnin D,Cerulli T,Cianflone A,Agrappi C,Mirri P,Clerici P

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Chronic HCV infection has emerged as a complex multifaceted disease with manifestations extending beyond the liver. HCV plays a direct role in glucose metabolism leading to both insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. To evaluate the changes in the glycemic state following Sofosbuvir-based treatment regimens in diabet...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Abdel Alem S,Elsharkawy A,Fouad R,Adel E,Abdellatif Z,Musa S,Nagy A,Hussein MS,Yosry A,Esmat G

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human JC virus is ubiquitous in human populations and is reactivated frequently in immunosuppressed patients. Fifty-one patients with autoimmune disease receiving immunomodulating therapy were evaluated to study the possible relationship between immunosuppression and JCV viruria. Patients were divided into cytotoxic a...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wang M,Tsai RT,Ou WC,Lin CK,Tsay GJ,Chang H,Chang D

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of HCV genotypes in four republics of the former Soviet Union (Russia, Belarus, Moldova, and Uzbekistan) was investigated. Overall, 197 HCV isolates from 66 blood donors and 131 patients with chronic hepatitis were typed. Viral sequences from sera of infected subjects were amplified by nested RT-PCR usi...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Viazov S,Kuzin S,Paladi N,Tchernovetsky M,Isaeva E,Mazhul L,Vasychova F,Widell A,Roggendorf M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A possible new subgroup of human rotavirus was found by crossed immunoelectrophoresis and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The epidemiology of the established subgroups 1 and 2 and this new variant was studied in two different communities. Of 398 rotavirus isolates from Malmö, Sweden, 26.8% were of type 1, 71.7% of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tufvesson B

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00