abstract：:The various strains of human polyomavirus BK (BKV) show a marked heterogeneity in the non-coding control region (NCCR), which includes the origin of replication and the regulatory region for early and late transcription. A new BKV strain (DDP, U91605) was identified by direct detection and sequencing of PCR products o...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Degener AM,Pietropaolo V,Di Taranto C,Jin L,Ameglio F,Cordiali-Fei P,Trento E,Sinibaldi L,Orsi N

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) load is one of the most important predictive factors of response to interferon treatment. However, little is known about the mode and determinants of viremia. The mode of viremia was investigated in 78 patients with chronic HCV genotype 1b infection during 1-2 years follow up. Virus load, deter...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Hashimoto M,Chayama K,Kobayashi M,Tsubota A,Arase Y,Saitoh S,Suzuki Y,Ikeda K,Matsuda M,Koike H,Kobayashi M,Handa H,Kumada H

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the role of host immune status in the evolution and complexity of hepatitis C virus (HCV) quasispecies, three chronic HCV-infected patients who underwent bone marrow transplantation (BMT) were studied. The three transplanted patients' sera were sampled at pre-BMT, 3 months after BMT, and 12 months after B...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ni YH,Chang MH,Chen PJ,Hsu HY,Lu TW,Lin KH,Lin DT

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The X gene product of human hepatitis B virus, HBx, transactivates the expression of viral and cellular genes through a wide variety of cis elements, including the nuclear factor for IL-6 (NF-IL6) binding sites, although HBx does not appear to bind DNA directly. We previously reported that HBx transactivated the inter...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ohno H,Kaneko S,Lin Y,Kobayashi K,Murakami S

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tandem direct reiteration R1 in the varicella-zoster virus genome consists of two elements: units composed of 18 bp and those having 15 bp, both of whose numbers and types of combination patterns vary among strains. The variations of the R1 structure were examined in order to differentiate between the wild strains...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Yoshida M,Tamura T,Hiruma M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GB virus C (GBV-C) is related to hepatitis C virus (HCV) and has a similar genomic structure. Some predictors for the efficacy of interferon (IFN) therapy on HCV have been reported: genotype, viral load, IFN dose, and the amino acid substitutions in the NS5A region, designated as the interferon sensitivity determining...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kato T,Mizokami M,Orito E,Ohba K,Nakano T,Kondo Y,Tanaka Y,Ueda R,Mukaide M,Yasuda K,Iino S

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed approaches using antisense RNA to inhibit hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA translation and HCV core protein expression. An HCV genotype 1b cDNA comprising nt 1-1321 or a fusion construct consisting of HCV (nt 1-584) and luciferase cDNAs were inserted downstream of T7 and CMV promoter sequences and used to gene...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wakita T,Moradpour D,Tokushihge K,Wands JR

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro, beta-herpesviruses can stimulate or inhibit HIV replication under particular circumstances. In order to investigate the effects of beta-herpesvirus infection on HIV replication and vice versa at an organ level, we determined the quantitative relationships between cytomegalovirus (CMV), human herpesviruses (H...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Emery VC,Atkins MC,Bowen EF,Clark DA,Johnson MA,Kidd IM,McLaughlin JE,Phillips AN,Strappe PM,Griffiths PD

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, several clusters of hepatitis A have been observed among hemophiliacs linked to factor VIII concentrates treated for virus inactivation solely with the solvent/detergent (S/D) method, a procedure that does not affect nonenveloped viruses such as the hepatitis A virus (HAV). A new outbreak of hepatitis A in s...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chudy M,Budek I,Keller-Stanislawski B,McCaustland KA,Neidhold S,Robertson BH,Nübling CM,Seitz R,Löwer J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 30-base pair (bp) deletion of the cytoplasmic carboxy-terminal domain of the latent membrane protein 1 (LMP-1) gene was analyzed in 37 frozen tissues from patients with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-related gastric cancer and 18 throat washings from healthy adults in southern Japan. The 30-bp deletion was identified in...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Mori S,Itoh T,Tokunaga M,Eizuru Y

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of dengue type 2 occurred in North Queensland, Australia, between December 1996 and April 1997. Culture of serum in the Aedes albopictus C6/36 cell line with detection using immunofluorescent staining was compared with a culture-amplified detection system using an immunoperoxidase staining method in a micr...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Gleeson F,McBride J,Norton R

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells from a leiomyosarcoma tumor (LMS-1) from a patient with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were explanted, cultured in vitro, and studied by phase-contrast microscopy for morphologic and growth characteristics, immunostaining for cell markers, EBER in situ hybridization and polymerase chain reaction f...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Jenson HB,Montalvo EA,McClain KL,Ench Y,Heard P,Christy BA,Dewalt-Hagan PJ,Moyer MP

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in the pathogenesis of gastric lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) has not been well understood. The aim of the study was to investigate EBV infection and its gene expression in this tumor in order to understand its role in the pathogenesis. EBV infection was scree...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Xu WS,Chan AC,Lee JM,Liang RH,Ho FC,Srivastava G

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gaza Strip borders the southern part of Israel and Egypt. There is a remarkable difference in the prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis C virus (HCV) between Israel (0.5%) and Egypt (10%). A few thousand inhabitants cross the borders daily from the Gaza Strip to both countries. The objectives of this study were to...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Shemer-Avni Y,el Astal Z,Kemper O,el Najjar KJ,Yaari A,Hanuka N,Margalith M,Sikuler E

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:False negativity in a commercial anti-HIV kit (IMx HIV-1/HIV-2 3rd Generation Plus (code 8B32) was investigated, and the kit that superseded it (IMx HIV-1/HIV-2 III Plus, code 8C98) was evaluated. In a comparison on 574 freshly collected anti-HIV-1-positive specimens, 97.2% were more reactive in 8C98 than in 8B32; 35....

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Parry JV,Perry KR,Harbour S,Burgess C,Mortimer PP,Blackburn NK,Martin D

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative interferon sensitivity determining region (ISDR) in the NS5a region of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) was analyzed in 13 interferon alpha (IFN-alpha) treated patients representing genotypes 1a, 1b, and 2b. These patients had previously been followed longitudinally during treatment with respect to viral load ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Odeberg J,Yun Z,Sönnerborg A,Weiland O,Lundeberg J

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major variables may cause false-negative results in prenatal diagnosis of congenital human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection: sensitivity of the techniques(s) used; and time elapsed between maternal infection and antenatal testing. Previous results indicated that rapid HCMV isolation from amniotic fluid samples and...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Revello MG,Sarasini A,Zavattoni M,Baldanti F,Gerna G

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological and immunohistochemical studies have indicated a possible link between measles virus and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of this study was to use a sensitive and robust method for the detection of measles virus RNA in IBD and control clinical samples. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Chadwick N,Bruce IJ,Schepelmann S,Pounder RE,Wakefield AJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of HHV-6 strain A infection on the expression of Epstein-Barr virus- (EBV-) encoded growth transformation-associated genes in two EBV-positive Burkitt lymphoma cell lines, Akata and P3HR-3, was investigated. The results indicate that HHV-6A upregulates the expression of the latent membrane protein LMP-1 in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Cuomo L,Trivedi P,de Grazia U,Calogero A,D'Onofrio M,Yang W,Frati L,Faggioni A,Rymo L,Ragona G

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GB virus C/hepatitis G virus (GBV-C/HGV) is related distantly to hepatitis C virus (HCV). HCV has a hypervariable region (HVR), and exists as quasispecies in vivo. Although GBV-C/HGV also has replaceable amino acids in the presumed antigenic region, the existence and fluctuation of population of heterogeneous virus ha...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kato T,Mizokami M,Nakano T,Orito E,Ohba K,Kondo Y,Tanaka Y,Ueda R,Mukaide M,Fujita K,Yasuda K,Iino S

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients attending the genitourinary medicine clinic at Watford General Hospital, UK, were examined for clinical signs of genital herpes infection. Genital swabs were taken from 194 patients (126 female, 68 male) who presented with genital ulceration or symptoms which were suggestive of genital herpes infection. Swabs...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Slomka MJ,Emery L,Munday PE,Moulsdale M,Brown DW

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) particles can be classified into two major fractions according to their floating density in serum. However, the genomic heterogeneity of each fraction and the relationship between this viral characteristic and interferon (IFN) response in patients with chronic hepatitis are not known. In this s...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sakai A,Kaneko S,Matsushita E,Kobayashi K

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the influence of ageing per se as well as of priming histories on the antibody response to influenza vaccination, haemagglutination inhibition (HI), ELISA IgG, IgA, IgM and neutralizing antibody titres were studied in 43 healthy young subjects (mean age 23 years) and 55 healthy elderly people (mean age 79...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Remarque EJ,de Bruijn IA,Boersma WJ,Masurel N,Ligthart GJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are two major etiologic agents of chronic hepatitis, which is closely related to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A possible involvement of HBV co-infection was investigated in ongoing HCV-related liver diseases in HCV-infected patients. A pre...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Koike K,Kobayashi M,Gondo M,Hayashi I,Osuga T,Takada S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to shorten the time required for the detection of enteroviruses in stool specimens, an 18-h immunoperoxidase test combining low-speed centrifugation and the use of a group specific anti-VP1 monoclonal antibody (5-D8/1, Dako) was developed. This rapid culture assay (RCA) was compared blindly to a conventional ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Bourlet T,Gharbi J,Omar S,Aouni M,Pozzetto B

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the distinct ability of retroviruses to integrate into the target cell genome and thus achieve long-term expression, retrovirus vectors hold great promise for stable gene transfer. Such vectors derived from human immunodeficiency retroviruses (HIVs) and other lentiviruses are envisioned to possess several a...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sadaie MR,Zamani M,Whang S,Sistron N,Arya SK

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predictive value of two methods for measuring HIV RNA concentration in plasma was assessed in relation to CD4 lymphocyte counts during the asymptomatic period of infection. The design was a retrospective longitudinal case-control study for a mean period of 60 months involving 20 asymptomatic patients included in t...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Delamare C,Burgard M,Deveau C,Chaix ML,Ivanoff S,Ramirez D,Tachet A,Bary M,Rouzioux C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses produce assembly proteins (AP) that act as scaffolding proteins for the assembly of the viral capsids. The products of the assemblin gene, which encodes both maturational protease and AP, have been established for herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and human cytomegalovirus (CMV). We cloned an inframe O...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Garcia-Valcarcel M,Fowler WJ,Harper DR,Jeffries DJ,Layton GT

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutralization of virus is likely to be necessary for development of an effective prophylactic vaccine against genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Two New Zealand white rabbits were immunized with purified HPV type 11 (HPV 11) virions in Freund's adjuvant. An enzyme linked immunoassay (ELISA) was used to det...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Bryan JT,Jansen KU,Lowe RS,Fife KH,McClowry T,Glass D,Brown DR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), a heterogeneous population of viruses, so-called quasispecies exists in vivo. The hypervariable regions (HVR) within the second envelope gene (HCV-E2) show particularly highly intratypic variability and are considered to be the target of neutralizing antibodies. T...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lee JH,Stripf T,Roth WK,Zeuzem S

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a male caucasian German pediatric patient of no Arab or Mediterranean ancestry with virus associated CNS lesions in Griscelli's syndrome (GS; McKusick No. 214450). The boy presented with recurrent infections, and meningitis with subsequent progressive signs of increased intracranial pressure leading to death...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wagner M,Müller-Berghaus J,Schroeder R,Sollberg S,Luka J,Leyssens N,Schneider B,Krueger GR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cell line (K-1034) was examined for its susceptibility to human herpesvirus 6 variant A (HHV-6A). Exposure of K-1034 cells to HHV-6A induced the formation of multinucleated giant cells, which was suppressed by an inhibitor of viral DNA synthesis. In the giant cells, herpesvirus nucle...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Arao Y,Soushi S,Sato Y,Moriishi E,Ando Y,Yamada M,Padilla J,Uno F,Nii S,Kurata T

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Puumala and Tula viruses are hantaviruses found in Europe and are associated with the rodents Clethrionomys glareolus and Microtus arvalis, respectively. Puumala virus is associated with the human disease nephropathia epidemica. In Austria, ten clinically diagnosed cases of nephropathia epidemica, presumably caused by...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Bowen MD,Gelbmann W,Ksiazek TG,Nichol ST,Nowotny N

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of HCV genotypes in four republics of the former Soviet Union (Russia, Belarus, Moldova, and Uzbekistan) was investigated. Overall, 197 HCV isolates from 66 blood donors and 131 patients with chronic hepatitis were typed. Viral sequences from sera of infected subjects were amplified by nested RT-PCR usi...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Viazov S,Kuzin S,Paladi N,Tchernovetsky M,Isaeva E,Mazhul L,Vasychova F,Widell A,Roggendorf M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method is described for the precise quantification of infectious duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) in cell culture, using a radioimmunofocus assay (RIFA). Primary duck hepatocyte cell cultures were infected with serial dilutions of viral samples as for a plaque assay, but then maintained with liquid overlay mediu...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Anderson DA,Grgacic EV,Luscombe CA,Gu X,Dixon R

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) are elevated in acute and chronic hepatitis B patients. The effect of IL-6 and its transcription factor of NF-IL6 (a nuclear factor for IL-6) on hepatitis B virus (HBV) enhancer 1 (Enh1), which controls HBV X expression, were investigated in HepG2 cells. Twenty ng/ml of IL-6 increa...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ohno H,Kaneko S,Kobayashi K,Murakami S

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a viral-induced demyelinating disease, is becoming relatively common, while many diagnostic and pathogenetic aspects remain to be clarified. A study was therefore undertaken in 64 AIDS patients suffering from various neurological disorders, including PML (12 subjects),...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ferrante P,Caldarelli-Stefano R,Omodeo-Zorini E,Cagni AE,Cocchi L,Suter F,Maserati R

更新日期：1997-07-01 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 presence of hepatitis GB virus C (GBV-C), also known as hepatitis G virus (HGV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) were investigated in sera from 45 hemophiliacs from nine locations in Nicaragua using a nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Primers used to detect GBV-C and HCV derived from the helicase region and 5'UT...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： González-Pérez MA,Norder H,Bergström A,Lopéz E,Visoná KA,Magnius LO

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to analyse the relationships between enteroviral replication and the myocardial damage at the onset of chronic cardiac infection, 2 mouse strains with different degrees of immunological competence (NMRI nu/nu, DBA/2) were infected by a myocarditic Coxsackie virus B3 (CVB3-M1) variant. At 31 days post-inoculat...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Andréoletti L,Hober D,Becquart P,Belaich S,Copin MC,Lambert V,Wattré P

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00