abstract：:The occurrence of HIV infection among drug-users in Italy between 1990 and 2000 is described; the data concern drug-users attending a nation-wide network consisting of 510 public drug-treatment centres. We included only individuals with written documentation of an HIV-test result. Of the 1,299,972 attendees, 54.5% had...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Suligoi B,Magliochetti N,Nicoletti G,Pezzotti P,Rezza G

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2000, we monitored the course and persistence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in 54 women who were HPV positive and free of any cytological disease using HPV-DNA genotyping with a linear array assay (baseline). The impact of HPV infection on development of cervical cytological abnormality (dyskaryosis) was ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Cuschieri KS,Whitley MJ,Cubie HA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of genetic variation in 16 varicella-zoster virus (VZV) isolates selected at random and circulating in the Irish population between March 2002 and February 2003 was carried out. A 919 bp fragment of the glycoprotein E gene (open reading frame 68) encompassing codon 150, at which a non-synonymous mutation defi...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Carr MJ,McCormack GP,Crowley B

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) variation in specific T-cell epitopes may represent a mechanism of viral persistence in chronic infection. We examined the HCV non-structural protein 3 (NS3), including the immunologically relevant epitopes HCV NS3-2 KLVALGINAV (human leukocyte antigen [HLA]-A2-restricted) and HCV NS3-1391 LIFC...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： López-Labrador FX,He XS,Berenguer M,Cheung RC,González-Candelas F,Wright TL,Greenberg HB

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) causes Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and lymphoproliferative disorders in both HIV-infected and uninfected patients. HHV-8 has a worldwide occurrence but infection rates vary according to a combination of geographic and behavioral risks. The main transmission route seems to be sexual, nevertheless,...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Pérez C,Tous M,Gallego S,Zala N,Rabinovich O,Garbiero S,Martínez MJ,Cunha AM,Camino S,Cámara A,Costa SC,Larrondo M,Francalancia V,Landreau F,Bartomioli MA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exacerbations of chronic hepatitis B have been associated with accumulation of mutations in the HBV core gene, with amino acid (aa) substitutions clustering between aa 50 and 69. This region of the nucleocapsid protein is known as an immunodominant epitope for CD4+ T-lymphocytes, however the impact of these mutations ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Torre F,Cramp M,Owsianka A,Dornan E,Marsden H,Carman W,Williams R,Naoumov NV

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether vertical transmission of the human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) may occur during pregnancy or at delivery, we enrolled 295 women recruited attending the Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology of a University Teaching of Rome Tor Vergata, S. Eugenio Hospital. The study population was divided in two group...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sarmati L,Carlo T,Rossella S,Montano M,Adalgisa P,Rezza G,Andreoni M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal fluctuations in hepatitis A have been observed in the Netherlands related to Turkish and Moroccan children after visiting their home countries. This study determined the prevalence and associated factors of hepatitis A virus (HAV) antibodies in Turkish and Moroccan children in Rotterdam. A random sample was t...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Richardus JH,Vos D,Veldhuijzen IK,Groen J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 102,600 upper respiratory infections (URI) were recorded among young military conscripts in the Finnish Defence Forces during the study period from October 1991 to March 1994. This period covered three outbreaks caused by H3N2-subtype influenza A virus and one outbreak of influenza B. During the 1991/92 out...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Pyhälä R,Visakorpi R,Ikonen N,Kleemola M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic value of early hepatitis C virus (HCV)-RNA load was evaluated among nonresponder patients to previous interferon (IFN) therapy treated with daily IFN and ribavirin. One hundred-six nonresponders (83 men), mean age 44.8 +/- 11 years, were treated with IFN-alpha 2b 3 MU/day for 24 weeks, followed by 3 MU ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Trimoulet P,de Lédinghen V,Foucher J,Castéra L,Fleury H,Couzigou P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) is the etiologic agent of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). Several studies indicate horizontal HHV-8 transmission among children in areas where KS is endemic, but few studies have assessed acquisition of HHV-8 by children in low seroprevalence areas. Antibody screening was carried out for HHV-8 and E...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Martro E,Bulterys M,Stewart JA,Spira TJ,Cannon MJ,Thacher TD,Bruns R,Pellett PE,Dollard SC

更新日期：2004-01-01 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

abstract：:Synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) containing unmethylated CpG dinucleotides within the context of certain flanking bases (CpG motifs) have been shown to induce potent innate and adaptive immune responses. Vaginal delivery of CpG ODN alone protects mice from vaginal herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) challenge. He...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sajic D,Ashkar AA,Patrick AJ,McCluskie MJ,Davis HL,Levine KL,Holl R,Rosenthal KL

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well documented that perinatal transmission is the major cause of chronic HBV infection in China. However, the mechanisms of HBV perinatal transmission are not defined clearly. It is not known whether hepatitis B e antigen can cross the human placenta, and the rate of HBeAg decay in babies with and without HBV b...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wang Z,Zhang J,Yang H,Li X,Wen S,Guo Y,Sun J,Hou J

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein B (gB) and glycoprotein H (gH) of human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7) are believed to play an important role in virus entry and as targets for host immune response. This study examined the genetic diversity of these glycoproteins among 90 HHV-7 isolates collected from different individuals in Hong Kong. Overall, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chan PK,Li CK,Chik KW,Shing MM,Lee V,Ng KC,Lam CW,Cheung JL,Cheng AF

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentiviral vectors are prime candidate vectors for gene transfer into dividing and non-dividing cells, including neuronal cells and stem cells. For safety, HIV-2 lentiviral vectors may be better suited for gene transfer in humans than HIV-1 lentiviral vectors. HIV-2 vectors cross-packaged in HIV-1 cores may be even sa...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： D'Costa J,Harvey-White J,Qasba P,Limaye A,Kaneski CR,Davis-Warren A,Brady RO,Bankiewicz KS,Major EO,Arya SK

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow cytometric analysis of CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells specific to human cytomegalovirus (CMV) was undertaken in seven patients with congenital CMV infection, six healthy infants who had acquired infection, and six CMV-seropositive adults. Intracellular cytokine assays showed that 0.03-2.23% of CD4(+) T cells in the he...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Hayashi N,Kimura H,Morishima T,Tanaka N,Tsurumi T,Kuzushima K

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate the pathogenesis of variant B human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) infection in skin tissues, an A431 cell line was inoculated with variant B HHV-6. HHV-6 causes abortive infection in the A431 cells, because neither late antigen (OHV-3 antigen) nor progeny virus is produced. Maximum levels of HHV-6 antige...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Yoshikawa T,Goshima F,Akimoto S,Ozaki T,Iwasaki T,Kurata T,Asano Y,Nishiyama Y

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phleboviruses are a large and widespread group of viruses that are transmitted by arthropods. Toscana virus is one of the principal agents that causes meningitis in humans during the summer in Italy and, possibly, in other Mediterranean countries. Rift Valley Fever virus can cause serious illness in both animals and h...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sánchez-Seco MP,Echevarría JM,Hernández L,Estévez D,Navarro-Marí JM,Tenorio A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) collected from Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1)-infected patients and healthy controls were measured longitudinally using real-time polymerase chain reaction to evaluate the effects of antiretroviral agents on mtDNA synthesis in vivo and to ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Miura T,Goto M,Hosoya N,Odawara T,Kitamura Y,Nakamura T,Iwamoto A

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the intra-hepatic activation of the IFN system in patients affected by chronic HCV-infection in comparison with that observed in a non-infectious liver disease such as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, we measured the liver steady state mRNA levels of interferon-alpha, interferon-beta and interferon-gamma ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Abbate I,Romano M,Longo R,Cappiello G,Lo Iacono O,Di Marco V,Paparella C,Spano A,Capobianchi MR

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the molecular epidemiology and biological characteristics of wild measles viruses isolated since 1984 in Japan. The circulating measles virus was of genotype C1 before 1985, D3 from 1987 to 1990, and D5 from 1990 to 1997. It was replaced by the same cluster of Chicago-type D3 strain from 1997 to 1999. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Zhou J,Fujino M,Inou Y,Kumada A,Aoki Y,Iwata S,Nakayama T

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Markov model was introduced to simulate natural histories of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in men and women. The data set was constructed on 942 HCV carriers who were examined at least once a year without receiving antiviral therapies. Based on 2,251 patient-year data, the probabilities of transition between a...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tanaka J,Kumada H,Ikeda K,Chayama K,Mizui M,Hino K,Katayama K,Kumagai J,Komiya Y,Miyakawa Y,Yoshizawa H

更新日期：2003-07-01 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 cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients, such as renal transplant recipients. Analysis of the gene encoding the envelope glycoprotein B (gB) showed that clinical isolates adopted one of the sequence configurations, permitting the isolates to be assigned a ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Carraro E,Granato CF

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1999-2000, a sustained mumps outbreak in the highly vaccinated population in Singapore was attributed to vaccine failure associated with the Rubini vaccine strain. To explain this phenomenon, the complete nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) gene of eight mumps virus isola...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lim CS,Chan KP,Goh KT,Chow VT

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the total hepatitis C virus (HCV) core antigen assay was evaluated for monitoring the therapeutic responses of HCV-infected patients treated with interferon. The ability to detect and quantitate an independent structural protein component of HCV, in the presence of circulating antibodies, makes this ass...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Zanetti AR,Romanò L,Brunetto M,Colombo M,Bellati G,Tackney C

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased incidence of a enterovirus infections observed in patients with type 1 diabetes preceding the development of the clinical disease could be partially explained by variation in the genes coding for enterovirus receptors. We carried out sequence analysis of the most common enterovirus receptor molecules in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Karttunen A,Pöyry T,Vaarala O,Ilonen J,Hovi T,Roivainen M,Hyypiä T

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of RT-PCR assays established in house at various places revealed that laboratories could differ in sensitivity by as much as 1,000-fold in terms of the ability to detect measles virus sequences in clinical samples. The study indicates that PCR findings, positive or negative, are questionable if they are not...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Afzal MA,Osterhaus AD,Cosby SL,Jin L,Beeler J,Takeuchi K,Kawashima H

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of dengue virus-infected human monocyte-derived macrophages to induce permeability changes in primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells was investigated. Supernatants from dengue virus type 2-infected monocyte-derived macrophages increased permeability in human umbilical vein endothelial cell monolaye...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Carr JM,Hocking H,Bunting K,Wright PJ,Davidson A,Gamble J,Burrell CJ,Li P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and its surface antigen (HBsAg) during acute hepatitis has not yet been studied accurately in a representative number of patients. The influence of coinfecting hepatitis viruses during the acute phase of infection is not known. Three to four serum samples from 21 patients with a...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chulanov VP,Shipulin GA,Schaefer S,Gerlich WH

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E is endemic in India. It was recently noted that although all the Indian human hepatitis E virus (HEV) isolates (1976-2001) were placed in genotype I, the swine HEV recovered from western India (2000) belonged to genotype IV. This was in contrast to reports from the United States and Taiwan wherein both hum...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Arankalle VA,Chobe LP,Walimbe AM,Yergolkar PN,Jacob GP

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred thirty-two strains of adenovirus type 7 were isolated in Hiroshima City during the period 1995-1999. About 80% of the viruses were isolated from patients with respiratory illness, and about 70% were isolated from children younger than 6 years old. DNA restriction analysis was performed on 58 of the 132 iso...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ikeda Y,Yamaoka K,Noda M,Ogino T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotavirus-specific subclass antibody responses and cytokines, tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), interleukin-8 (IL-8), and IL-10, were measured in children 7-24 months of age with rotavirus diarrhoea (n = 29); the responses were compared with children with watery diarrhoea from who...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Azim T,Zaki MH,Podder G,Sultana N,Salam MA,Rahman SM,Sefat-e-Khuda,Sack DA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many countries are studying currently the possibility of mass vaccination against varicella. The objective of this study was to provide a complete picture of the pre-vaccine epidemiology of the Varicella-Zoster Virus in England and Wales to aid in the design of immunisation programs. Population-based data including ge...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Brisson M,Edmunds WJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Varicella zoster-virus (VZV) is a humanpathogenic alpha-Herpesvirus that causes chickenpox after primary infection. The virus spreads by aerosol or direct contact with infectious vesical fluids, it enters the body via the respiratory tract. In a first viremic stage it replicates in local lymph nodes, followed by a sec...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Koenig A,Wolff MH

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been detected in the inner ear fluid of patients who succumbed to the complications of symptomatic congenital CMV infection, it has not been detected in the inner ear fluid of living patients. In this study, real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to measure CMV DNA in cli...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sugiura S,Yoshikawa T,Nishiyama Y,Morishita Y,Sato E,Hattori T,Nakashima T

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:Acute hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection was diagnosed in 57 adults admitted to Toranomon Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. Genotypes of HBV were determined by a serological method and compared to those in 1,077 patients with chronic hepatitis B. The distribution of genotypes were: genotype A (acute, 22.8% vs. chronic, 1.9%; P...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kobayashi M,Arase Y,Ikeda K,Tsubota A,Suzuki Y,Saitoh S,Kobayashi M,Suzuki F,Akuta N,Someya T,Matsuda M,Sato J,Takagi K,Miyakawa Y,Kumada H

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpes virus type 6 (HHV-6) DNA has been suggested to be a cofactor to human papillomavirus (HPV) in cervical cancer. In a cross-sectional study, we investigated the association between HHV-6 DNA detected in cervical brushings and high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL), while controlling for genital ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Tran-Thanh D,Koushik A,Provencher D,Drouin P,Dubuc-Lissoir J,Gauthier P,Allaire G,Kornegay J,Franco E,Coutlée F

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00