abstract：:Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhoea worldwide, affecting over 125 million young children every year in developing countries. The present study is a part of ongoing childhood diarrhoeal surveillance to determine the strain diversity of rotaviruses prevalent in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. From Octobe...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Reesu R,Bhattacharya D,Chaaithanya IK,Muruganandam N,Bharadwaj AP,Singhania M,Sugunan AP,Vijayachari P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an alphavirus belonging to the Togaviridae family. Alphaviruses cause a chronic non-cytopathic infection in mosquito cells, while they develop a highly cytopathic infection in cells originating from various vertebrates. In this study, we compared the cytopathic effect (CPE) induc...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Li YG,Siripanyaphinyo U,Tumkosit U,Noranate N,A-nuegoonpipat A,Tao R,Kurosu T,Ikuta K,Takeda N,Anantapreecha S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Giant viruses of the Megavirales order have been neglected in the literature because they are removed from samples during viral purification for viral metagenomic studies. Isolation via amoeba coculture has low efficiency and is extremely time-consuming. Thus, our objective was to improve Megavirales detectio...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Slimani M,Pagnier I,Boughalmi M,Raoult D,La Scola B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian hepatitis E virus (HEV), the etiological agent of hepatitis E in humans, is a recently discovered infectious agent. It was identified for the first time in 1983 using electron microscopy on a faecal specimen of a person infected with non-A, non-B enterically-transmitted hepatitis. Based on retrospective and ...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kaba M,Moal V,Gérolami R,Colson P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The specific effect of rna interference on the replication of porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus (phe-cov) was explored. METHODS:Four species of small interfering RNA (siRNA), targeting different regions of the PHE-CoV spike glycoprotein and replicase polyprotein genes, were prepared by in vitr...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Lan Y,Lu H,Zhao K,He W,Chen K,Wang G,Song D,Gao F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case in which sustained viral response was achieved after switching treatment from pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) α-2b to α-2a and ribavirin (RBV) in patients with recurrence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection after living donor liver transplantation. The patient was a 62-year-old man with liver cirrhosi...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kawaoka T,Hiraga N,Takahashi S,Takaki S,Tsuge M,Nagaoki Y,Hashimoto Y,Katamura Y,Miki D,Hiramatsu A,Waki K,Imamura M,Kawakami Y,Aikata H,Ochi H,Tashiro H,Ohdan H,Chayama K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) infection of mice is a widely used animal model for demyelinating disorders, such as multiple sclerosis (MS). The aim of the present study was to identify topographical differences of TMEV spread and demyelination in the brain of experimentally infected suscept...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kummerfeld M,Seehusen F,Klein S,Ulrich R,Kreutzer R,Gerhauser I,Herder V,Baumgärtner W,Beineke A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:XTrack, a rapid, cost-effective diagnostic HIV tropism system, yields predictive results and dissects virus mixtures. It is based on the duplexing of patient samples with selective DNA probes, combined with sequence-based analysis and replicative phenotyping for ambiguous samples. ...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Klimkait T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-2 is responsible for a limited epidemic in West Africa. Around 20% of all infected patients will progress to AIDS, and will need antiretroviral therapy. Unfortunately, antiretrovirals were developed to suppress HIV-1 replication; not all of them are active against HIV-2, e.g. all nonnucleoside reverse transcriptas...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Camacho RJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The genetic barrier for the evolution of integrase inhibitors (INIs) including raltegravir (RAL), elvitegravir (EVG), and dolutegravir (DTG) resistance was compared between HIV-1 subtypes CRF01_AE and B. METHODS:Analysis of 66 substitutions associated with INI resistance at 41 amino acid positions in 144 nuc...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Nguyen HL,Ruxrungtham K,Delaugerre C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus (HEV), the main etiologic agent of enterically transmitted acute hepatitis in developing countries, is now recognized as an emerging agent of autochthonous disease and chronic hepatitis E in immunocompromised patients in Europe where HEV infection is probably zoonotically acquired. We describe the fi...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Moal V,Gerolami R,Colson P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The hemagglutinin molecule of influenza virus is considered as an ideal model to study biological processes as well as the effect of glycosylation on the function of glycoproteins. OBJECTIVES:The large subunit of the influenza virus A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1) hemagglutinin (HA1) was expressed in recombina...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Farahmand B,Khodabandeh M,Mahboudi F,Fotouhi F,Saleh M,Barkhordari F,Tabatabaian M,Nasab FP,Kheiri MT

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The present study was launched to systematically characterize the molecular genotypes and quantitative serological biomarkers during the natural course of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection in a patient population from Chongqing, China. METHODS:A total of 140 patients were enrolled and grouped accordi...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Xiang Y,Huang S,Xia J,Ye D,Chen P,Zhang L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have recently demonstrated that an oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) can enter HIV particles and form a local hybrid at the highly conserved polypurine tract (PPT), the target site of the ODN. This hybrid is recognized by the retrovirus-specific RNase H, which is a virion-associated enzyme. It cleaves the RNA at...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Heinrich J,Schols D,Moelling K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of sequence variability between different genotypes of hepatitis C virus (HCV) on the antigenic properties of the NS3 proteins, and to evaluate the significance of the proteins in the serological diagnosis. METHODS:The recombinant expression plasmids of pET/NS3-1 and pET/NS3-6 were ...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Qiao W,Xie P,Cai B,Li L

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Fluctuation profile has been observed in chronic hepatitis B patients who are untreated or interrupt therapy. A mathematical model and its parameters could be used to diagnose the assumption of superinfection of hepatocytes and to understand the causes for the spontaneous fluctuation pattern of HBV DNA loads...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Wang K,Tan W,Tang Y,Deng G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether liver-derived hepatitis C RNA-containing particles express the E1E2 discontinuous antigenic determinant defined by unique monoclonal antibody (mAb) D32.10 which recognizes three highly conserved segments in E1 (aa297-306) and E2 (aa480-494 and aa613-621) envelope glycoproteins. METHODS:H...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Ndongo N,Selliah S,Berthillon P,Raymond VA,Trépo C,Bilodeau M,Petit MA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pandemic viral infections as emerging infectious diseases are of a great global concern. However, for some viruses, particular strains are endemic to specific areas and can be genetically distinguished from strains in other regions. In contrast, for some other viruses, genetically similar strains can spread a...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Furuse Y,Suzuki A,Kamigaki T,Mpolya EA,Khandaker I,Oshitani H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) was approved in Japan in April 2008 for the retreatment of chronic hepatitis C patients with genotype 1b and high viral loads, whose hepatitis C virus was not eradicated by earlier IFN therapy or by pegylated IFN plus ribavirin (PEG-IFN/RBV) combination therapy. In this study, w...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kim SR,Imoto S,Kudo M,Mita K,Taniguchi M,Kim KI,Sasase N,Shoji I,Nagano-Fujii M,El-Shamy A,Hotta H,Nagai T,Nagata Y,Hayashi Y

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to attain molecular knowledge of human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18) by sequencing the whole genome of HPV18 isolated from Thai women at various clinical stages of disease progression. METHOD:Our group analyzed 9 samples of whole-genome HPV18 in infected women ranging from normal t...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Lurchachaiwong W,Junyangdikul P,Termrungruanglert W,Payungporn S,Sampatanukul P,Tresukosol D,Niruthisard S,Trivijitsilp P,Karalak A,Swangvaree S,Poovorawan Y

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV) constitute an apparently monophyletic group that consists of 6 families of viruses infecting a broad variety of eukaryotes. A comprehensive genome comparison and maximum-likelihood reconstruction of NCLDV evolution reveal a set of approximately 50 conserv...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Koonin EV,Yutin N

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 574 stool samples from children with gastroenteritis were obtained from different hospitals in Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic during 2005-2006. Diarrhea stool samples were analyzed for rotavirus by ELISA and typed by the RT-PCR-based method. Unusual strains were detected: G1P...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Bourdett-Stanziola L,Ortega-Barria E,Espinoza F,Bucardo F,Jimenez C,Ferrera A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To characterize morphological, physicochemical and genomic features of a novel virulent coliphage which was isolated from an engineered Escherichia coli culture and termed engineered E. coli phage (EEP). METHODS AND RESULTS:Electron microscopy revealed that EEP has an icosahedral head (62 nm in diameter) an...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Li S,Liu L,Zhu J,Zou L,Li M,Cong Y,Rao X,Hu X,Zhou Y,Chen Z,Hu F

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to identify the codon usage bias between the newly identified duck plague virus (DPV) UL35 gene (GenBank accession No. EF643558) and the UL35-like genes of 27 other reference herpesviruses. METHODS:A comparative analysis of the codon usage bias of the 28 herpesviruses was performed by using the C...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Cai MS,Cheng AC,Wang MS,Zhao LC,Zhu DK,Luo QH,Liu F,Chen XY

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date there are no reports of molecular and phylogenetic analyses of human influenza virus in Tehran, Iran. OBJECTIVES:We isolated and characterized circulating influenza viruses in a sample of patients in Tehran. METHODS:Nasal and pharyngeal swabs were collected from 57 individuals who were suspected of...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Soltani Z,Hosseini M,Shahidi M,Hedayati M,Kheiri MT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to investigate the molecular mechanism of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development induced by hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx). METHODS:We previously established a H7402-X cell line that constitutively expresses HBx protein. In the present study, H7402-X gene expression profiles a...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Ye L,Dong N,Wang Q,Xu Z,Cai N,Wang H,Zhang X

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To clarify the value of contrast-enhanced harmonic ultrasonography (US) with Sonazoid, a second-generation US contrast agent, in the differential diagnosis of liver tumors compared to dynamic CT. METHODS:A total of 249 hepatic nodules in 214 patients were studied; these included 177 hepatocellular carcinomas...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Hatanaka K,Kudo M,Minami Y,Ueda T,Tatsumi C,Kitai S,Takahashi S,Inoue T,Hagiwara S,Chung H,Ueshima K,Maekawa K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue fever (DF), one of the main emerging virus diseases, also increases in German travellers, due to the increasing number of travellers to tropical regions. METHODS:We determined antibodies against DF virus in a group (n = 149) of long-distance travellers in order to evaluate the risk of acquiring DF. S...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Allwinn R,Hofknecht N,Doerr HW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The WU-virus (WUV), a novel polyomavirus, has recently been recovered from respiratory tract samples. Within a study collective of children with severe lower respiratory tract disease, 3% of the patients tested WUV positive. Viral loads ranged from 5 x 10(2) copies/ml to 1 x 10(4) copies/ml. The WUV genome-positive pa...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kleines M,Scheithauer S,Hengst M,Honnef D,Ritter K,Mühler E,Häusler M,Rostamzadeh A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype and the possible association between genotype and HCV-associated liver disease in Indonesia. METHODS:32 anti-HCV-positive asymptomatic carriers (AC), 55 chronic hepatitis (CH), 41 liver cirrhosis (LC), and 35 hepato...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Utama A,Budiarto BR,Monasari D,Octavia TI,Chandra IS,Gani RA,Hasan I,Sanityoso A,Miskad UA,Yusuf I,Lesmana LA,Sulaiman A,Tai S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Transmission of HIV-1 and diagnosis of infection in hospitals and public health settings remains a worldwide concern. HIV-1 detection is sometimes not possible using current commercial assays, probably due to mismatches between the selected primers and probes. METHODS:By screening primers and probes, we deve...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Huang J,Yang CM,Wang LN,Meng S,Deng W,Li JM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, a statistical score method for comparison of partial genomic regions in their representatives of full-length genome of hepatitis E virus (HEV) for genotyping was developed. The critical values of the statistics for hypothesis testing were generated through Monte Carlo simulations. It was found that fr...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Xun P,Chen F,Dong C,Qian G,Lai D,Meng J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To screen and identify cellular proteins binding to the core region of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA genome. METHODS:The plasmid pHCV core was constructed to generate in vitro transcripts of the core region of HCV RNA genome. Ultraviolet (UV) cross-linking experiment and competition analysis were performed to ...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Su HX,Xu DZ,Zhang YH,Men K,Zhao XN,Li D,Zhang L,Zhang JX,Yan YP

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the prevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) among patients with chronic hepatitis B and chronic hepatitis C, serum samples were collected between January and December 2004 from patients with chronic hepatitis B and chronic hepatitis C. METHODS:There were 190 adult patients with chronic hepatiti...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Bayram A,Eksi F,Mehli M,Sözen E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Genome-wide sequences of hepatitis B virus strain associated with type B fulminant hepatitis have not been compared with those of acute self-limited hepatitis. We carried out full-length sequencing analysis of viral strains derived from patients with type B acute liver injury. METHODS:Nine acute self-limited...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kanada A,Takehara T,Ohkawa K,Tatsumi T,Sakamori R,Yamaguchi S,Uemura A,Kohga K,Sasakawa A,Hikita H,Hijioka T,Katayama K,Deguchi M,Kagita M,Kanto T,Hiramatsu N,Hayashi N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of HIV Tat protein on Bcl-2 expression in human monocytes, and observe apoptosis of Tat-stimulated monocytes induced by TNF-alpha-related apoptosis-induced ligand (TRAIL). METHODS:Western blot was used to detect Bcl-2 expression in monocytes stimulated by HIV Tat protein, and Annexi...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Zheng L,Yang Y,Guocai L,Pauza CD,Salvato MS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue virus is spread in tropical areas of the world and is the causative agent of dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever. It is horizontally transmitted to humans by infected Aedes mosquitoes, but it is also able to be vertically or transovarially transmitted to insect progeny. OBJECTIVE:In this work, ...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Günther J,Martínez-Muñoz JP,Pérez-Ishiwara DG,Salas-Benito J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasal natural killer (NK)/T cell lymphoma is a peculiar lymphoma with a unique immunophenotype. Etiologically, in 1990, the authors first demonstrated the presence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genomes and their products in this lymphoma. EBV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) are very important in controlling the l...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Nagamine M,Kishibe K,Takahara M,Nagato T,Ishii H,Bandoh N,Ogino T,Harabuchi Y

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the existence for some time of effective prophylactic vaccines, hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains an important global concern. Improvements on existing vaccines could be beneficial, especially in situations where it is desirable or necessary to induce protective immunity more rapidly or with fewer dose...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Payette PJ,Ma X,Weeratna RD,McCluskie MJ,Shapiro M,Engle RE,Davis HL,Purcell RH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) induces chronic liver disease in hosts which can eventually progresses to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. However, progression of liver disease is slower in patients with persistently normal levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) than in those with active hepatitis. Although dis...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kanto T,Inoue M,Miyazaki M,Itose I,Miyatake H,Sakakibara M,Yakushijin T,Kaimori A,Oki C,Hiramatsu N,Kasahara A,Hayashi N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00