abstract：:Men who have sex with men (MSM) are an important risk group for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and at high-risk of herpesvirus infection. However, limited information on epidemiologic patterns of HHV8 and HSV2 among MSM is available in mainland China. A cross-sectional study of 486 participants was performed in Sh...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Liu Z,Fang Q,Zuo J,Wang J,Chen Y,Minhas V,Wood C,He N,Zhang T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human respiratory syncytial virus group A (RSV-A) was detected in symptomatic hospital attended children in Central Spain for a continuous time period, September 2010 to April 2015. In order to accurately describe the epidemiology of this virus, the genetic diversity of the complete G gene and the clinical manifestati...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Calderón A,Pozo F,Calvo C,García-García M,González-Esguevillas M,Molinero M,Casas I

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a zoonosis, there is, currently, no standardized assay for quantitatively measuring anti-HEV antibody levels in HEV animal reservoirs. In this study, anti-HEV antibody positive serum from a rabbit (RS26) was calibrated by dose-response parallel line assay using the World H...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Zhang Y,Wang L,Zeng H,Gong W,Wang L,Zhuang H

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of HHV-8 infection varies widely in South American populations, displaying geographical variations in its distribution. The heterogeneous genetic contributions provided by the transatlantic parental populations that modified the Native American genomes may explain this epidemiological observation. Aimin...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Hulaniuk ML,Torres O,Bartoli S,Fortuny L,Burgos Pratx L,Nuñez F,Salamone H,Corach D,Trinks J,Caputo M

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare the data obtained using the new LIAISON® XL chemiluminescence system to search for HBsAg, anti-HCV, and anti-HIV1-2/p24 Ag with those obtained using the VITROS system currently adopted by the Microbiology Unit of the Hospital of Legnano. Routine samples of patients who were referre...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： De Paschale M,Manco MT,Belvisi L,Cagnin D,Cerulli T,Paganini A,Arpino O,Cianflone A,Agrappi C,Mirri P,Clerici P

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common congenital infection in humans and a leading cause of sensorineural hearing loss. Ganciclovir (6 mg/kg twice daily for 42 days) has been shown to reduce hearing deterioration and is used in clinical practice. Vaccines and passive administration of antibody are being evaluated i...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Kadambari S,Atkinson C,Luck S,Macartney M,Conibear T,Harrison I,Booth C,Sharland M,Griffiths PD

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have indicated that viral reactivations following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) are frequent, but viral reactivations after autologous HSCT (auto-HSCT) have not been investigated in detail. We performed multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay to examine multiple...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Inazawa N,Hori T,Nojima M,Saito M,Igarashi K,Yamamoto M,Shimizu N,Yoto Y,Tsutsumi H

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense protein (ASP) is the new actor of viral life of Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) although proposed above 20 years ago. The asp ORF is into complementary strand of the gp120/gp41 junction of env gene. The ASP biological role remains little known. Knowing the Env markers of viral tropism, a dataset ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Dimonte S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs) are an important cause of acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRTIs). HPIV-4, a newly identified virus, has been associated with severe ALRTIs recently. A total of 771 nasopharyngeal aspirate samples were collected from hospitalized children between March 2010 and February 20...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Xiao NG,Duan ZJ,Xie ZP,Zhong LL,Zeng SZ,Huang H,Gao HC,Zhang B

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary infection, seroconversion, and transmitted drug resistance (TDR) during pregnancy may influence the risk of mother-to-child-transmission (MTCT) of HIV-1 infection. This study estimated recent seroconversion, TDR rates, HIV-1 subtypes and pregnancy outcomes among 95 recently diagnosed, antiretroviral (ARV)-naïv...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lima YA,Cardoso LP,Reis MN,Stefani MM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet distribution width (PDW) is a readily available blood test involving calculations performed by automated blood analyzers. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) may exhibit a severe profile with fatal hemorrhaging or else present with a mild clinical process. The purpose of our study was to investigate the im...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Yilmaz H,Yilmaz G,Menteşe A,Kostakoğlu U,Karahan SC,Köksal İ

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze the characteristics of Dengue virus (DENV)-infected children and the accuracy of dengue diagnosis based on clinical presentations. The inclusion criteria were children ≥1-year-old presenting febrile illness with 1-7 days of onset. Children (n = 110) aged 2-15 years were included in...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Poloni TR,Dornas FP,Dos Santos NN Jr,Soares AM,Amarilla AA,Alfonso HL,Trigueiro S,Lavrador MA,Yamamoto AY,Aquino VH

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latency, the EBV genome is largely silenced by methylation. This silencing is overturned during the switch to the lytic cycle. A key event is the production of the viral protein Zta which binds to three Zta-response elements (ZRE) from the Rta promoter (Rp), two of which (ZRE2 and ZRE3)...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Germi R,Guigue N,Lupo J,Semenova T,Grossi L,Vermeulen O,Epaulard O,de Fraipont F,Morand P

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an infectious disease that is caused by CCHF virus. A family of transmembrane receptors called as Toll-like receptors (TLRs) selectively acts in recognizing a wide range of microbial components and endogenous molecules released by damaged tissue and have been preserved through...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Engin A,Arslan S,Özbilüm N,Bakir M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ZIKV infection has become a global threat spreading across 31 countries in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. However, little information is available about the molecular epidemiology of ZIKV. Shared mutation of a threonine residue to alanine at the same position in the C terminal of NS5 sequences was ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Adiga R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether the administration of IL-12 is effective against influenza virus infection, mice were intranasally administered IL-12 for three consecutive days and then infected with a non-lethal dose of the influenza virus. The IL-12-treated mice were more resistant to the virus than control mice with respect...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ishikawa H,Ino S,Sasaki H,Fukui T,Kohda C,Tanaka K

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is an emergent viral pathogen associated with mild to severe respiratory infections. In this study, we describe respiratory infections associated with EV-D68 in Beijing over a 4 year period. Total nucleic acid was extracted from 7,945 clinical specimens collected between January 5, 2011 and Ju...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Zhang T,Li A,Chen M,Wu J,Huang F

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) is classified as two distinct species: HHV-6A and B. HHV-6B infection can cause several clinical manifestations in transplant recipients including encephalitis, bone marrow suppression, and pneumonitis. In contrast to HHV-6B, the clinical features of HHV-6A infection remain largely undefine...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ihira M,Yamaki A,Kato Y,Higashimoto Y,Kawamura Y,Yoshikawa T

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It remains unclear if China's current HIV antibody testing algorithm misses a substantial number of HIV infected individuals. Of 196 specimens with indeterminate or negative results on HIV western blot (WB) retrospectively examined by HIV-1 nucleic acid test (NAT), 67.57% (75/111) of indeterminate WB samples, and 16.4...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Liu MQ,Zhu ZR,Kong WH,Tang L,Peng JS,Wang X,Xu J,Schilling RF,Cai T,Zhou W

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Algeria is the largest country of Africa, peopled with populations living a range of traditional/rural and modern/urban lifestyles. The variations of prevalence of chronic active hepatitis care poorly known on the Algerian territory. We conducted a retrospective survey on all patients (n = 998) referred to our institu...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Bensalem A,Selmani K,Hihi N,Bencherifa N,Mostefaoui F,Kerioui C,Pineau P,Debzi N,Berkane S

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to evaluate cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA salivary shedding in HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) and to determine whether viro-immunological parameters and long-term (24 months) plasma HIV RNA (pHIV) detection may predict herpesviruses replication. A total o...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Scaggiante R,Andreis S,Basso M,Franchin E,Franzetti M,Del Vecchio C,Torti C,Mengoli C,Cruciani M,Sarmati L,Palù G,Parisi SG

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The λ-carrageenan (λ-car) is a potent and selective inhibitor of dengue virus (DENV) infection targeted to virus adsorption and internalization, due to the structural similarities with the mammalian cell receptor heparan sulfate. To further characterize the antiviral activity of λ-car, the selection and the phenotypic...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Talarico LB,Damonte EB

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human polyomaviruses HPyV6, HPyV7, TSPyV, HPyV9, MWPyV, and KIPyV have been discovered between 2007 and 2012. TSPyV causes a rare skin disease trichodysplasia spinulosa in immunocompromised patients, the role of remaining polyomaviruses in human pathology is not clear. In this study, we assessed the occurrence of seru...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Šroller V,Hamšíková E,Ludvíková V,Musil J,Němečková Š,Saláková M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory tract infections are a principal cause of illness and mortality in children worldwide and mostly caused by viruses. In this study, the epidemiology of 11 respiratory RNA viruses was investigated in a cohort of hospitalized children at a tertiary referral center in Riyadh from February 2008 to March 2009 us...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Amer HM,Alshaman MS,Farrag MA,Hamad ME,Alsaadi MM,Almajhdi FN

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus sequences were detected by RT-PCR in 14/15 (93%) of untreated sewage samples from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Phylogenetic analysis of amplicons at limiting dilution revealed the co-circulation of multiple variants of HEV-3, with a pattern of diversity matching that observed in a local cohort of HEV-inf...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Smith DB,Paddy JO,Simmonds P

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this meta-analysis, we evaluated the diagnostic role of Epstein-Barr virus deoxyribonucleic acid detection and quantitation in the serum of pediatric and young adult patients with infectious mononucleosis. The primary outcome of this meta-analysis was the sensitivity and specificity of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) deox...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Jiang SY,Yang JW,Shao JB,Liao XL,Lu ZH,Jiang H

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Henan, China is characterized by the outbreak of HIV epidemic of Thai B strain in former plasma donors in 1990s. After the forbidden of paid blood donation, whether Thai B strain will spread out of former plasma donors into sexual transmitted population is unknown. To answer the question, phylogenetic analysis was use...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Li L,Sun G,Zhong P,Han J,Li T,Jia D,Liu Y,Sun C,Wang Z,Li H,Wang X,Li J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is the leading cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide, with HAV infection being restricted to humans and nonhuman primates. In this study, HAV infection status was serologically determined in domestic pigs and experimental infections of HAV were attempted to verify HAV infectivity in pigs. An...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Song YJ,Park WJ,Park BJ,Kwak SW,Kim YH,Lee JB,Park SY,Song CS,Lee SW,Seo KH,Kang YS,Park CK,Song JY,Choi IS

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group C rotavirus (RVC) is potentially an important pathogen associated with acute gastroenteritis (AG), especially in outbreaks. This study aims to detect and molecularly characterize RVC in hospitalized children with AG in Belém, Brazil. From May 2008 to April 2011, 279 stools were subjected to reverse-transcription...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Lobo Pdos S,Guerra Sde F,Siqueira JA,Soares Lda S,Gabbay YB,Linhares AC,Mascarenhas JD

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have shown that swine HEV (sHEV) and rabbit HEV (rHEV) can experimentally infect rabbits and swine, respectively. However, no published data have documented isolating sHEV strains from rabbits in natural environment so far. To clarify the possibility of natural cross-species transmission of sHEV to rabbits, th...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Liu L,Wang L,Xia J,Zhang Y,Zeng H,Liu P,Zou Q,Wang L,Zhuang H

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 drug resistance mutations (DRMs) and substitutions were assessed after the failure of the first line non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) + 2 nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) treatment regimens (efavirenz [EFV] + lamivudine[3TC] + zidovudine [ZDV] vs. EFV + 3TC +...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Avi R,Pauskar M,Karki T,Kallas E,Jõgeda EL,Margus T,Huik K,Lutsar I

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 10 (TNFRSF10) is a death domain-containing receptor for the apoptotic ligand TNFSF10, which involves multiple processes, including hepatocarcinogenesis and immune response against HBV infection. Several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified as expressi...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Wen J,Song C,Liu J,Chen J,Zhai X,Hu Z

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported positive rates of hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) among Chinese blood donors generally do not include data from pre-donation rapid tests. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of serologic markers for HBsAg and risk factors among blood donors from Chengdu, China. From April 2010 t...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Zhong L,Xi G,Zhang L,Liu S,Wan L,Yu L,Zhou M,Zhang J,He Y

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphisms upstream interleukin (IL)-28B gene and serum levels of interferon gamma inducible protein-10 (IP-10) are associated with spontaneous and treatment-induced hepatitis C virus (HCV) clearance. Patients with seronegative occult HCV infection are anti-HCV and serum HCV-RNA negative but have viral RNA in liver...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Bartolomé J,Castillo I,Quiroga JA,Carreño V

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is the result of an inadequate immune response towards the virus. Dendritic cells (DCs), as the most efficient professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs), possess the strongest antigen presenting the effect in the body and can stimulate the initial T cell activation and prol...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Sun HH,Zhou DF,Zhou JY

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In total 1,525 blood serum samples were collected in October, 2013 in Russian Asia from people who reside in territories that are at high risk for emergence of influenza viruses with pandemic potential. Presence of antibodies to influenza viruses in the sera was tested in hemagglutination inhibition test. None of the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Ilyicheva T,Abdurashitov M,Durymanov A,Susloparov I,Goncharova N,Kolosova N,Mikheev V,Ryzhikov A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of recognition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection especially in children and delayed implementation of effective control programs makes HIV infection as a major cause for concern. Information on HIV epidemiology in Iran as well as other Islamic countries is limited. The aim of our study was to descri...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Movahedi Z,Mahmoudi S,Pourakbari B,Keshavarz Valian N,Sabouni F,Ramezani A,Bahador A,Mamishi S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of respiratory viruses using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is sensitive, specific and cost effective, having huge potential for patient management. In this study, the performance of an in-house developed conventional multiplex RT-PCR (mRT-PCR), real time RT-PCR (rtRT-PCR) and Luminex xTAG(®) RVP fast assay...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Choudhary ML,Anand SP,Tikhe SA,Walimbe AM,Potdar VA,Chadha MS,Mishra AC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical cancer development has been mainly associated with persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infections. However, HPV infection is unlikely to be sufficient to cause cervical cancer, and the contribution of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) could be the determining factor for cervical lesion-progressio...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： Magaña-Contreras M,Contreras-Paredes A,Chavez-Blanco A,Lizano M,De la Cruz-Hernandez Y,De la Cruz-Hernandez E

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Pegivirus (HPgV), formerly GB virus-C/Hepatitis G virus (GBV-C/HGV), collectively known as GBV-C, is widely spread and has been reported to be associated with non-A-E hepatitis. To our knowledge, no previous study was conducted about HPgV in Qatar. Thus, the objectives of this study were as follows: (i) to deter...

journal_title：Journal of medical virology

authors： AbuOdeh RO,Al-Absi E,Ali NH,Khalili M,Al-Mawlawi N,Hadwan TA,Althani AA,Nasrallah GK

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00