abstract：:Chronic papillary conjunctivitis has been described following adenoviral conjunctivitis. It is unknown however, how long adenovirus is able to persist in the tear film and conjunctiva. To determine if adenovirus persists in the ocular surface following adenoviral conjunctivitis, 304 patients with a history of adenovir...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kaye SB,Lloyd M,Williams H,Yuen C,Scott JA,O'Donnell N,Batterbury M,Hiscott P,Hart CA

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：:In April 2004, two patients were admitted to hospital in Berlin, Germany, with clinical signs of acute respiratory infection after returning from a military exercise in their home country of Turkey. They were admitted to a high security infectious disease unit as epidemiological data pointed to an outbreak of unknown ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chmielewicz B,Benzler J,Pauli G,Krause G,Bergmann F,Schweiger B

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation is in continuation with the earlier studies on diarrhea epidemic due to rotavirus, that occurred at Jawhar western India, among tribal children during Dec 2000-Jan 2001 published by National Institute of Virology, Pune. Three rotavirus strains were isolated in cell culture from fecal specimens of af...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Awachat PS,Kelkar SD

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) transgenic mice that replicate HBV in the liver generally do not exhibit gross liver pathology, while maintaining a high level (10(7) or greater) of viral titer in the blood. We have used this model to determine the minimum effects of HBV replication in the liver on cellular gene transcription,...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Hajjou M,Norel R,Carver R,Marion P,Cullen J,Rogler LE,Rogler CE

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide is well accepted as one of the defenses for inhibiting viral dissemination. Macrophages and cells in the macrophage lineage are professional nitric oxide producers which sub-serve as target for dengue virus. The interaction between nitric oxide and dengue virus in such target cell is unknown. In this repo...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Charnsilpa W,Takhampunya R,Endy TP,Mammen MP Jr,Libraty DH,Ubol S

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:This is an audit of a new technique to improve the colposcopy service. Samples were tested for high risk HPV DNA using Digene Hybrid Capture II. Sixty-four percent of the sampled women under 30 had detectable high risk HPV DNA, decreasing to 44% in 30--39 year olds and to 27% in women over 40. High risk HPV prevalence...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Perrons C,Brink N,Jalal H,Watts P,Jelley R

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 70 kDa heat shock protein (Hsp70) is generally considered to be an intracellular protein, however, there is evidence that Hsp70 can be found in the extracellular environment. Hsp70 and antibodies against Hsp70 have been reported in human serum. Recent evidence has shown that Hsp70 antibodies are elevated in HIV in...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Papp D,Prohászka Z,Kocsis J,Füst G,Bánhegyi D,Raynes DA,Guerriero V

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study revealed a high prevalence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and hepatitis delta virus (HDV) RNA among 249 apparently healthy individuals (mean+/-standard deviation age, 48.4+/-13.9 years; 126 males and 123 females) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. To investigate further the prevalence of HDV infection ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Inoue J,Takahashi M,Nishizawa T,Narantuya L,Sakuma M,Kagawa Y,Shimosegawa T,Okamoto H

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, it was demonstrated that the Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection led to an activation of MAP kinases. The viral protein encoded by ORF61 is a major effector of JNK/SAPK and p38/MAPK phosphorylation. ORF61 shows homology to HSV-1 ICP0, a multifunctional protein that influences the activity of c-Jun in infe...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Rahaus M,Desloges N,Wolff MH

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) antibody screening is not recommended uniformly before transplantation in Western countries. In the year 2001, the first cases of HTLV-I infection acquired through organ transplantation from one asymptomatic carrier were reported in Europe. All three organ recipients developed a ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Toro C,Benito R,Aguilera A,Bassani S,Rodríguez C,Calderón E,Caballero E,Alvarez P,García J,Rodríguez-Iglesias M,Guelar A,del Romero J,Soriano V,HTLV Spanish Study Group.

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) are both retroviruses with similar routes of transmission. A number of reports suggest variable clinical outcomes in HIV and HTLV co-infected individuals. There is no published information regarding the prevalence of HIV and HTLV co-infectio...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Cooke FJ,Geretti AM,Zuckerman M

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) is known to be the cause of almost all cervical cancers. The genotypes have been classified into high and low risk types according to their oncogenic potential. However, data for many of the genotypes are limited and some (HPV-26, 53, and 66) have no agreed status. A study was undertaken to ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Brestovac B,Harnett GB,Smith DW,Shellam GR,Frost FA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the current epidemiology of chronic liver disease in Italy is mostly obsolete and fragmentary for the lack of up-to-date consistent data. In 2001, a 6-month prevalence study was undertaken in 79 hospitals to assess the characteristics of chronic liver disease in Italy. Both prevalent and incident cases we...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sagnelli E,Stroffolini T,Mele A,Almasio P,Coppola N,Ferrigno L,Scolastico C,Onofrio M,Imparato M,Filippini P

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term efficacy of lamivudine therapy in patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is still not clear. In this study, 20 non-cirrhotic Japanese patients infected with HBV received lamivudine therapy for more than 1 year and were followed for a median period of 8.5 years (range, 6.7-8.7 years). The rates o...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Akuta N,Suzuki F,Suzuki Y,Sezaki H,Hosaka T,Someya T,Kobayashi M,Saitoh S,Arase Y,Ikeda K,Kobayashi M,Kumada H

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a case study of a child who developed roseola infantum first, then varicella, and was later affected by acute cerebellar syndrome, severe truncal ataxia, and myoclonic dystonia. Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) A and B were detected in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and peripheral blood, respectively, upon ataxia on...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Borghi E,Pagani E,Mancuso R,Delbue S,Valli M,Mazziotti R,Giordano L,Micheli R,Ferrante P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 infections due to non-B subtypes are increasing rapidly in number and spreading across Europe. The genetic nature of HIV-1 non-B variants containing subtype G sequences at the protease (PR)-coding region are described from 48 unrelated subjects living in Spain. Phylogenetic analyses of the HIV-1 reverse transcri...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Holguín A,Alvarez A,Soriano V

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using recombinant nucleoprotein (rNP) was reported for the detection of immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies to Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus (CCHFV). The immunoglobulin M (IgM)-capture ELISA was developed for the diagnosis of CCHFV infections, using CCHFV rNP a...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Saijo M,Tang Q,Shimayi B,Han L,Zhang Y,Asiguma M,Tianshu D,Maeda A,Kurane I,Morikawa S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied epidemiologic and immunologic factors in infants with bronchiolitis caused by influenza virus. The proportion of these infants who were male and who had an immediate family member with a history of asthma was similar to that of a control group of infants with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis....

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Garofalo RP,Hintz KH,Hill V,Patti J,Ogra PL,Welliver RC Sr

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five hundred and forty-seven pregnant women with less than 32 weeks of amenorrhoea, attending an antenatal clinic of St. Camille Medical Centre (SCMC) of Ouagadougou were enrolled for a hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV co-infection study. Fifty-eight (10.6%) were HIV positive and 18 (3.3%) were anti-HCV positive. Only ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Simpore J,Ilboudo D,Samandoulougou A,Guardo P,Castronovo P,Musumeci S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A random peptide library of heptamers displayed on the surface of M13 bacteriophage was used to identify specific epitopes of antibodies in pooled sera of swine naturally infected by Nipah virus. The selected heptapeptides were aligned with protein sequences of Nipah virus and several putative epitopes were identified...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Eshaghi M,Tan WS,Yusoff K

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory viruses were identified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in more than 4,200 specimens collected during 2002 and 2003 in Victoria, Australia from patients admitted to hospitals or participating in an influenza surveillance program. Influenza viruses and picornaviruses were important causes of morbidit...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Druce J,Tran T,Kelly H,Kaye M,Chibo D,Kostecki R,Amiri A,Catton M,Birch C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitin in the form of microparticles (chitin microparticles, CMP) has been demonstrated to be a potent stimulator of macrophages, promoting T-helper-1 (Th1) activation and cytokine response. In order to examine the mucosal adjuvant effect of CMP co-administered with influenza hemagglutinin (HA) vaccine against influen...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Hasegawa H,Ichinohe T,Strong P,Watanabe I,Ito S,Tamura S,Takahashi H,Sawa H,Chiba J,Kurata T,Sata T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexually transmitted disease (STD) remains a major public health challenge in developed countries, exacerbated by the advent of the HIV epidemic. The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of serological markers of syphilis, HIV-1/2, HTLV-I/II, HBV, and HCV infections among immigrant sex workers in Mad...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Gutiérrez M,Tajada P,Alvarez A,De Julián R,Baquero M,Soriano V,Holguín A

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout most of the last decade, B/Yamagata/16/88-lineage influenza viruses were predominant among the B isolates circulating worldwide, whereas B/Victoria/2/87-lineage viruses were isolated infrequently and restricted geographically to eastern Asia. During the 2001-02 influenza season, B/Victoria/2/87-lineage viru...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Puzelli S,Frezza F,Fabiani C,Ansaldi F,Campitelli L,Lin YP,Gregory V,Bennett M,D'Agaro P,Campello C,Crovari P,Hay A,Donatelli I

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TT virus (TTV) was isolated recently from the serum of a patient with post-transfusion hepatitis. TTV infection is widespread in the general population, and its prevalence increases continuously with age. The pathogenic role of TTV in liver disease remains controversial, and the source of transmission is still unc...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Komatsu H,Inui A,Sogo T,Kuroda K,Tanaka T,Fujisawa T

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) that appeared in circulation during lamivudine therapy, we analyzed HBV-specific CTLs using HLA-A24 tetramer and HBcAg-specific Th1 cells in patients receiving lamivudine therapy. Six patients (HLA-A24(+)) with chronic hepatitis B, six patients (HLA-A24(-)) with chronic h...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kondo Y,Asabe S,Kobayashi K,Shiina M,Niitsuma H,Ueno Y,Kobayashi T,Shimosegawa T

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genotypes and subtypes of 205 HBV isolates collected during 1989-2002 in Estonia and 14 other regions of the former USSR were determined by sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of the S gene. The in Europe prevailing genotypes, A and D, were also circulating in the whole territory of the former USSR including Esto...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tallo T,Norder H,Tefanova V,Krispin T,Priimägi L,Mukomolov S,Mikhailov M,Magnius LO

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total RNA from normal adult woodchucks was analyzed using membrane arrays containing human cDNA clones, and the gene expression patterns were compared to human liver. Various hybridization and wash conditions were examined. In both the woodchuck and human livers, 352 genes were identified as highly expressed (Z-scores...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Rinaudo JA,Gerin JL

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was reported previously food-borne transmission of hepatitis E virus (HEV) to humans from deer meat. The present study attempted to clarify whether eating uncooked deer meat is a major epidemiological risk factor for HEV infection in Kasai, a city in western Japan. In total, 45 volunteer subjects with experience of...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tei S,Kitajima N,Ohara S,Inoue Y,Miki M,Yamatani T,Yamabe H,Mishiro S,Kinoshita Y

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the haemagglutination inhibition assay is considered the "gold standard" for antigenic characterisation of influenza viruses, some limitations of this technique are well known. A new microneutralisation assay, as a tool for antigenic characterisation of influenza B viruses, has been standardised and its perfo...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ansaldi F,Bacilieri S,Amicizia D,Valle L,Banfi F,Durando P,Sticchi L,Gasparini R,Icardi G,Crovari P

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seroprevalence of viral hepatitis in healthcare workers has important public health implications. To assess the risk factors for the acquisition of viral hepatitis in an unvaccinated cohort from an hyperendemic region, 567 healthcare workers from a large hospital in the capital of the Republic of Yemen were interv...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Shidrawi R,Ali Al-Huraibi M,Ahmad Al-Haimi M,Dayton R,Murray-Lyon IM

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:We have previously reported that concanavalin A-immobilized polystyrene nanospheres (Con A-NS) could efficiently capture HIV-1 particles and that intranasal immunization with inactivated HIV-1-capturing nanospheres (HIV-NS) induced vaginal anti-HIV-1 IgA antibody response in mice. In this study, to evaluate the protec...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Miyake A,Akagi T,Enose Y,Ueno M,Kawamura M,Horiuchi R,Hiraishi K,Adachi M,Serizawa T,Narayan O,Akashi M,Baba M,Hayami M

更新日期：2004-07-01 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：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA may persist in the liver in the absence of serum HBV-DNA after a self-limited acute hepatitis B. This may also occur in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection but its prevalence and its impact on liver histology is unknown. HBV-DNA was tested by polymerase chain reaction (P...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Mariscal LF,Rodríguez-Iñigo E,Bartolomé J,Castillo I,Ortiz-Movilla N,Navacerrada C,Pardo M,Pérez-Mota A,Graus J,Carreño V

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient presented with acute retinal necrosis of the left eye. Demonstration of herpes simplex virus (HSV) DNA in the aqueous humour confirmed the diagnosis. Negative results of HSV type-specific antibody tests based on gG antigens suggested a primary HSV infection. However, the patient had a past history of laborat...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Preiser W,Doerr HW,Buxbaum S,Rabenau HF,Baatz H

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we studied the role of nitric oxide (NO) production during the first steps of the respiratory infection of BALB/c mice with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), strain F. Nitric oxide synthase II (NOS-II) mRNA and protein were detected by reverse transcription (RT)-PCR and dot blot, respectively in samples of lu...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Gamba G,Cavalieri H,Courreges MC,Massouh EJ,Benencia F

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00