High proportion of false positive reactions among donors with anti-HCV antibodies in a low prevalence area.

abstract：:To determine whether unconventional pathogens causing subacute spongiform encephalopathy may be present in blood products, a newly developed hepatitis B vaccine and a widely used blood product were injected into mice and rats. As only a few aged mice in the test and the control groups showed spongiform encephalopathic...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tateishi J,Tsuji S

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is the leading cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide, with HAV infection being restricted to humans and nonhuman primates. In this study, HAV infection status was serologically determined in domestic pigs and experimental infections of HAV were attempted to verify HAV infectivity in pigs. An...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Song YJ,Park WJ,Park BJ,Kwak SW,Kim YH,Lee JB,Park SY,Song CS,Lee SW,Seo KH,Kang YS,Park CK,Song JY,Choi IS

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk and clearance of GB virus type C (GBV-C)/hepatitis G virus (HGV) infection was investigated in a cohort of homosexual men (n=180; median follow-up time, 7 years). The interaction between GBV-C/HGV RNA and antibodies against the E2 region of the virus, and the clinical impact of chronic GBV-C/HGV infection wer...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Stark K,Doering CD,Bienzle U,Pauli G,Hamouda O,Engel AM,Schreier E

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the efficacy of interferon-alpha on hepatitis C viral RNA in patients with chronic hepatitis C, we analyzed the levels of HCV RNA in sera and liver tissues of 16 patients pre- and posttreatment using a semiquantitative polymerase chain reaction method. Fifteen of 16 patients were positive for anti-H...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Liang TJ,Rustgi V,Galun E,Blum HE

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following widespread outbreaks of oyster-associated gastroenteritis in Australia during 1978 in which Norwalk virus was implicated as the causative agent, collaborative studies were undertaken between laboratories in Australia and the United States to confirm the etiology. Immune electron microscopy (IEM) techniques w...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Grohmann GS,Greenberg HB,Welch BM,Murphy AM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza epidemic is an important cause of severe illness in the elderly. Age-dependent morbidity of influenza in the elderly is associated with weakened immunity. The baseline age-related memory T cell activity in Chinese persons who are exposed to influenza virus through natural infection, are associated with the p...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Jia N,Li C,Liu YX,Richardus JH,Feng D,Yang H,Dang RL,Ma YH,Xu XN,Cao WC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) is a novel virus that has caused over 28 million cases worldwide and over 900,000 deaths since early 2020, rightfully being classified as a pandemic. COVID-19 is diagnosed via PCR testing which looks at cycle threshold values of two genes, N2 and E. This study examined cycle threshold values of C...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Seeni R,Firzli T,Riddle MS,Krasner C,Ashraf S,Siddiqui F

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA was found in the intestines and feces, but its clinical significance is not completely clear. We aim to characterize the longitudinal test results of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in anal swabs and to explore the association with disease severity. METHODS:We...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lin W,Xie Z,Li Y,Li L,Wen C,Cao Y,Chen X,Ou X,Hu F,Li F,Tang X,Cai W,Li L

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:In countries with a low prevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) infection, indeterminate HTLV serologies are a major problem in blood bank screening because of the uncertainties about infection in these cases. The recent discovery of two new types of simian T-lymphotropic viruses (STLV), which give an HTLV-ind...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Vandamme AM,Van Laethem K,Liu HF,Van Brussel M,Delaporte E,de Castro Costa CM,Fleischer C,Taylor G,Bertazzoni U,Desmyter J,Goubau P

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically different subpopulations were identified and purified from Japanese Encephalitis virus (JEV). Those with small plaques (SPs; <2 mm in diameter), derived from strains of T1P1, CJN, and CC27, were more competent than those with large plaques (LPs; >5 mm in diameter) when passaged in Neuro-2a cells. Differenc...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chiou SS,Liu H,Chuang CK,Lin CC,Chen WJ

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mid-December 2019, a disease caused by infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, which began in Wuhan, China, has spread throughout the country and many countries around the world. The number of children with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has also increased significantly. Although inform...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： She J,Liu L,Liu W

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to evaluate the reliability of herpes simplex virus (HSV) PCR testing in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for the detection of herpes simplex encephalitis. This was done by examining retrospectively the clinical follow-up of a large group of patients tested routinely by HSV-PCR. In addition,...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Puchhammer-Stöckl E,Presterl E,Croÿ C,Aberle S,Popow-Kraupp T,Kundi M,Hofmann H,Wenninger U,Gödl I

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpes virus 8 (HHV 8) is recognized as the necessary cause of Kaposi sarcoma (KS) and in the recent past the human papillomavirus (HPV) has been linked to the development of cutaneous basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas. In a cross sectional study investigating Beta-HPV infections in skin lesions, an unexpe...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Murahwa AT,Muchemwa FC,Duri K,Borok MZ,Kanyera RB,Manhanzva MT,Mapingure MP,Stray-Pedersen B

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical, virological, and histological findings in four HBsAg chronic carriers who cleared HBV markers from both serum and liver following HDV superinfection are described. The patients were long-term HBsAg carriers and all were HBV-DNA/HBeAg positive. Liver biopsy, obtained from three of the patients between 5 and 1...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Pastore G,Monno L,Santantonio T,Angarano G,Milella M,Giannelli A,Fiore JR

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpesviruses (HHVs) are involved in the pathogenesis of different types of uveitis. Cytokine response plays an important role in virus-induced immunopathology. This study aimed to investigate the incidence of HHVs in aqueous humor samples of immunocompetent patients with suspected viral uveitis and cytokine (IL...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Nahdi I,Abdelwahed RB,Boukoum H,Bressollette-Bodin C,Attia S,Yahia SB,Fisson S,Khairallah M,Aouni M

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), the etiologic agent of roseola in young children, has been reported to be detectable in the brain of many neurologically normal adults, although regional localization to plaques of multiple sclerosis has also been demonstrated. Large amounts of this virus were present in multifocal demyeli...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Novoa LJ,Nagra RM,Nakawatase T,Edwards-Lee T,Tourtellotte WW,Cornford ME

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of T-cells in clearance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) during acute infection is critical. The relevance of the immunological response in the control of HCV replication is less clear in chronic HCV infection. HCV-specific T-cell responses were examined in 92 interferon-naive individuals with chronic hepatitis C. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Capa L,Soriano V,García-Samaniego J,Nuñez M,Romero M,Cascajero A,Muñoz F,González-Lahoz J,Benito JM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inosine triphosphatase (ITPA) gene variants can protect against ribavirin (RBV)-induced anemia in patients treated for chronic hepatitis C. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between genetic variants of ITPA polymorphism, anemia, RBV dose reduction, and treatment response in hepatitis C virus (HCV...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： El Raziky M,Zayed NA,Abdel Baki A,Mansour SA,Shahin RMH

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV6) is a beta-herpesvirus capable of infecting several cell types from different origins. HHV6 is the etiological agent of exantem subitum and has been associated with several diseases, all characterized by an inflammatory response triggered by chemokines. We show that strain U1102 of HHV6 is ab...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Caruso A,Favilli F,Rotola A,Comar M,Horejsh D,Alessandri G,Grassi M,Di Luca D,Fiorentini S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) RNA levels may be a more sensitive early indicator of predisposition to carcinogenesis than DNA levels. We evaluated whether levels of HPV-16 and HPV-18 DNA and messenger RNA (mRNA) in newly detected infections are associated with cervical lesion development. Female university students were ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Winer RL,Harris TG,Xi LF,Jansen KU,Hughes JP,Feng Q,Welebob C,Ho J,Lee SK,Carter JJ,Galloway DA,Kiviat NB,Koutsky LA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:A meta-analysis was performed to identify COVID-19 patients presenting with gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms during the first and second pandemic waves and investigate their association with the disease outcomes. METHODS:A systematic search in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, and EMBASE ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Elshazli RM,Kline A,Elgaml A,Aboutaleb MH,Salim MM,Omar M,Munshi R,Mankowski N,Hussein MH,Attia AS,Toraih EA,Settin A,Killackey M,Fawzy MS,Kandil E

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Three monoclonal antibodies against herpes simplex virus type 2 have been tested for their suitability as reagents in reverse passive haemagglutination. Two of these antibodies with specificity for virus glycoprotein D, when linked to red blood cells, were able to capture antigens without being agglutinated, but addit...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Cranage MP,McLean CS,Buckmaster EA,Minson AC,Wildy P,Coombs RR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported positive rates of hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) among Chinese blood donors generally do not include data from pre-donation rapid tests. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of serologic markers for HBsAg and risk factors among blood donors from Chengdu, China. From April 2010 t...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Zhong L,Xi G,Zhang L,Liu S,Wan L,Yu L,Zhou M,Zhang J,He Y

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because Junin virus (JV) experimental encephalitis of mice and rats is characterized by mild histopathological changes that do not seem to justify per se lethality after intracerebral infection, such a murine model seems adequate to investigate the potential role of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) as a pathogen...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Gómez RM,Yep A,Schattner M,Berría MI

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overall, head and neck sqamous cell carcinoma accounts for more than 550,000 cases annually worldwide. It is well known that human papillomavirus (HPV) is the main risk factor for cervical cancer development. As the incidence and the mortality of cervical cancer are closely related to the HPV prevalence, we hypothesiz...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Gudleviciene Z,Didziapetriene J,Mackeviciene I,Cicenas S,Smolyakova R,Zhukavetc A

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that some individuals may present genetic susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection, with particular research interest in variants of the ACE2 and TMPRSS2 genes, involved in viral penetration into cells, in different populations and geographic regions, although insufficient information is currently ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Torre-Fuentes L,Matías-Guiu J,Hernández-Lorenzo L,Montero-Escribano P,Pytel V,Porta-Etessam J,Gómez-Pinedo U,Matías-Guiu JA

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 2002, several epidemics of aseptic meningitis were attributed to echovirus 13 in Korea. The causative agents of these outbreaks were isolated and identified using rhabdosarcoma cells, HEp-2 and Buffalo green monkey kidney cells, and a neutralization test using monospecific antiserum. Fifty-four echovirus 13 iso...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Cheon DS,Lee J,Lee K,Lee S,Park K,Ahn J,Jee Y,Yoon J,Cho H

更新日期：2004-07-01 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