HIV-1 subtype C reverse transcriptase sequences from drug-naive pregnant women in South Africa.

abstract：:Here we report the construction, sequencing, and biological characterization of a molecular clone of HIV-1(92UG001), a virus representative of subtype D strains circulating in Uganda. The virus produced by the clone has an aggressive syncytium-inducing phenotype, which matches that of the parental virus. This phenotyp...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Novelli P,Vella C,Oxford J,Daniels RS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Older HIV-positive patients may experience reduced benefit and increased toxicities from combination antiretroviral therapies (cART) due to late diagnosis, weakened immune systems, and other age-related physiological changes. This study investigates the effect of age on time to virologic suppression and CD4 cell count...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Szadkowski L,Tseng A,Walmsley SL,Salit I,Raboud JM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) specific for CD4 are potent inhibitors of HIV replication in vitro. These agents may be useful prophylactically or in chronic HIV infection if they can be administered without inducing immunosuppression. In the present study, we explored the safety of a CD4-specific murine mAb in rhesus mo...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Reimann KA,Burkly LC,Burrus B,Waite BC,Lord CI,Letvin NL

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzylated peptides with a primary amino acid sequence corresponding to either human CD4(81-92) (#18), or chimpanzee CD4(81-92) (#18C), were equipotent inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection of CD4+ cells and high-affinity binding of 125I-gp120 to CD4+ cells. The chimpanzee-based CD4(81-92...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Lifson JD,Rausch DM,Kalyanaraman VS,Hwang KM,Eiden LE

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial vaginosis (BV) has been linked to an increased risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition and transmission in observational studies, but the underlying biological mechanisms are unknown. We measured biomarkers of subclinical vaginal inflammation, endogenous antimicrobial activity, and vaginal flo...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Thurman AR,Kimble T,Herold B,Mesquita PM,Fichorova RN,Dawood HY,Fashemi T,Chandra N,Rabe L,Cunningham TD,Anderson S,Schwartz J,Doncel G

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) long terminal repeat (LTR) promoter-mediated gene expression is regulated by the viral Tat protein that relieves a block to viral transcription elongation after binding with a viral hairpin loop RNA structure called the trans-activation-responsive region (TAR). Tat protein significan...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Chande AG,Baba M,Mukhopadhyaya R

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic diversity of HIV-1 is well documented. Except for the HIV-1 isolate LAV-1BRU, no nucleic acid sequence of a European isolate of HIV-1 has been published to date. To further investigate the extent of the genetic variability and the evolution of HIV-1, we have isolated, cloned, and subsequently sequenced HIV...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Sauermann U,Schneider J,Mous J,Brunckhorst U,Schedel I,Jentsch KD,Hunsmann G

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a novel HIV-1 second-generation recombinant form (CRF01_AE/CRF07_BC) composed of CRF01_AE and CRF07_BC, identified among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Jilin, with four breakpoints observed in the pol, vif, and vpr genes. The CRF01_AE regions of the recombinant were clustered with the CRF01_AE linea...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Li X,Ning C,He X,Yang Y,Xing H,Hong K,Shao Y,Yang R

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of different HIV-1 subtypes in Spain varies by geographic region. In the present study isolates were collected from 72 newly diagnosed individuals in western Andalucia from 2004 to 2006. Viral sequences were amplified and the subtype diversity and prevalence of resistance mutations in the reverse transc...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： McConnell MJ,Docobo-Pérez F,Mata RC,Fernandez-Cuenca F,Viciana P,López-Cortés LF,Trastoy M,Pachón J,Pérez-Romero P

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural polymorphisms of HIV-1, often associated with drug resistance, are widely described in protease and reverse transcriptase regions but data on their presence in the integrase region, especially in non-B subtypes, are still very limited. We aimed to characterize naturally occurring polymorphisms in the integrase...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Avi R,Huik K,Sadam M,Karki T,Krispin T,Ainsalu K,Paap P,Schmidt J,Nikitina N,Lutsar I

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying and monitoring HIV clusters could be useful in tracking the leading edge of HIV transmission in epidemics. Currently, greater specificity in the definition of HIV clusters is needed to reduce confusion in the interpretation of HIV clustering results. We address sampling density as one of the key aspects of...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Novitsky V,Moyo S,Lei Q,DeGruttola V,Essex M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological and experimental data suggest that both robust neutralizing antibodies and potent cellular responses play important roles in controlling primary HIV-1 infection. In this study we have investigated the induction of systemic and mucosal immune responses to HIV gp120 monomer immunogen administered intrana...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Bielinska AU,Janczak KW,Landers JJ,Markovitz DM,Montefiori DC,Baker JR Jr

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) isolates from six infected individuals less then 4 years of age were phenotyped for their syncytium-inducing (SI) ability in MT-2 cells. Three viral isolates that induced syncytia were detected. One SI isolate was from an individual who was in disease stage P2A,B,C and two S...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Forte SE,Byron KS,Sullivan JL,Somasundaran M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in the extent of genetic diversity have been observed in human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) envelope sequences early in infection, and this has been linked to gender and to modifiable exogenous factors such as hormonal contraceptive use and genital tract infections. But it is unclear whether envel...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Sagar M,Kirkegaard E,Lavreys L,Overbaugh J

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide sequences for long terminal repeat (LTR), gag, the protease gene, and pol of a human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) isolate of probable Caribbean origin (HTLV-1CH) and a Zairian isolate (HTLV-1EL) were determined providing complete proviral sequences for these isolates. These sequences were compared w...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Ratner L,Philpott T,Trowbridge DB

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern Brazil has the highest prevalence rate of AIDS in the country and is the only region in the Americas where HIV-1 C prevails. Metropolitan areas and harbor cities have been evaluated, but limited information is available for small towns and specific populations. We studied women attending the obstetric outpati...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Rodrigues R,Manenti S,Romao PR,de Paula Ferreira JL,Batista JP,Siqueira AF,de Macedo Brigido LF

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the role that cellular immune responses play in the protection conferred by vaccination with attenuated SIVmac32H (pC8), we have attempted to deplete macaques of their CD8+ cells prior to challenge with wild-type SIVmac32H (pJ5). In two of four pC8-infected macaques, N109 and N112, a transient partial dep...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Stebbings R,Stott J,Almond N,Hull R,Lines J,Silvera P,Sangster R,Corcoran T,Rose J,Cobbold S,Gotch F,McMichael A,Walker B

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV epidemic in Russia, one of the world's fastest growing, has been concentrated mostly among people who inject drugs (PWID). We sought to explore the epidemiology of the epidemic in St. Petersburg by sampling from the highest risk groups of PWID and men who have sex with men (MSM) and use viral sequencing data t...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Dukhovlinova E,Masharsky A,Toussova O,Verevochkin S,Solovyeva T,Meringof M,Paintsil E,White E,Barbour R,Heimer R,Kozlov A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with HIV-1 and human T-lymphotropic virus type 2 (HTLV-2) coinfections often exhibit a clinical course similar to that seen in HIV-1-infected individuals who are long-term nonprogressors. These findings have been attributed in part to the ability of HTLV-2 to activate production of antiviral chemokines and to...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Barrios CS,Castillo L,Giam CZ,Wu L,Beilke MA

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied vertical transmission of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) to determine whether it might provide a model with which to study intervention strategies for mother-to-offspring transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). We found that pregnant cats acutely infected with FIV (FIV-CSU-2771) transmitted ...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： O'Neil LL,Burkhard MJ,Diehl LJ,Hoover EA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HTLV-II-specific antibodies, with patterns similar to those in the Americas, were present in sera collected about 1970 from Bambuti pygmies in Zaire (14/102; 14%) and from pygmies in Cameroon (5/214; 2.3%), and were more prevalent than HTLV-I. In the Central African Republic, 504 pygmies were HTLV negative. After find...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Goubau P,Liu HF,De Lange GG,Vandamme AM,Desmyter J

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the performance of T-SPOT.TB (a commercial interferon gamma release assay) and its accuracy for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis (TB) among HIV-infected subjects with advanced immunodeficiency. In a clinical prospective study, we assessed the performance of T-SPOT.TB for the diagnosis of active TB in ...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Chen J,Sun J,Zhang R,Liu L,Zheng Y,Shen Y,Wang Z,Sun F,Li L,Lu H

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotrophic virus type II (HTLV-II) has not yet been associated with any disease. Little is known about the proviral loads of HTLV-II in vivo and its relationship, if any, to lack of pathogenicity. We determined the HTLV-II proviral copy number in peripheral blood lymphocyte (PBL) samples from 49 HTLV-II-inf...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Woods TC,Graber JM,Hershow RC,Khabbaz RF,Kaplan JE,Heneine W

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic polymorphisms within the MHC encoding region have the strongest impact on HIV disease progression of any in the human genome and provide important clues to the mechanisms of HIV immune control. Few analyses have been undertaken of HLA alleles associated with rapid disease progression. HLA-B*07:02 is an HLA cla...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Kløverpris HN,Adland E,Koyanagi M,Stryhn A,Harndahl M,Matthews PC,Shapiro R,Walker BD,Ndung'u T,Brander C,Takiguchi M,Buus S,Goulder P

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination contributes substantially to the genetic diversity of HIV-1, and mosaic strains arise frequently, especially in populations in which multiple subtypes circulate. Yunnan, which borders the "Golden triangle" region of Southeast Asia in the south, was considered as the epicenter of China. B, CRF01_AE, CRF07...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Li L,Chen L,Yang S,Liu Y,Li H,Bao Z,Wang Z,Zhuang D,Liu S,Li J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) proteins including Tat are produced by HIV-infected astrocytes and secreted into the brain resulting in extensive neuronal damage that contributes to the pathogenesis of HIV dementia. The neuroprotective hormone 17beta-estradiol (E2) is known to negatively regulate the HIV trans...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Heron PM,Turchan-Cholewo J,Bruce-Keller AJ,Wilson ME

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new syncytia-inducing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) strain designated PokA79 was first isolated from a peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) pool from 24 HIV-1-infected patients from Russia and adapted to growth in MT2, MT4, and U937 cell cultures. The full-length genome of this isolate was amplifi...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Galkin AN,Bychenko AB,Kuznecovs G,Filinova EY

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 protease activity is essential for viral replication. In spite of the high rates of HIV mutation, the active site of protease (residues 24-29) is a conserved site, where mutations have not been previously described. To determine the effect of mutations at positions T26 and A29 of the viral protease and its viabi...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Melón S,Gil-Roda C,de Oña M,Erice A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA is one of the genetic factors that influence the clinical course of HIV-1 infection, and patients with HLA-B35 are prone to rapid disease progression. Nine viral epitopes that are recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) in an HLA-B35-restricted manner were determined. To examine how HIV-1 sequences are select...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Kawana A,Tomiyama H,Takiguchi M,Shioda T,Nakamura T,Iwamoto A

更新日期：1999-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This study seeks to analyze nearly full-length viral genomes for distinct genetic characteristics that are unique to local or regional strains and to identify regions that have high variability or are highly conserved. Nearly full length sequences of seven HIV-1 samples were obtained to ascertain the circulating subty...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Roye ME,Amarakoon II,Hamilton CL,Eyzaguirre LM,Figueroa P,Carr JK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00