Background: Infectious diseases are major public health problems, among which blood-borne ones are the most important infections. Patients who undergo orthopedic surgery are at higher risk of transmitting infectious diseases from and to others, due to repeated blood examinations and injection, drains secretion and receiving blood products. Accordingly, in this study we determined prevalence of ...

Increasing access and frequency of human immunodeficiency virus testing are critical to stemming the epidemic. In Brazil's concentrated epidemic, human immunodeficiency virus prevalence in the men who have sex with men/transgender population far exceeds that in the general population, but testing rates fall below what is needed to ensure early detection and treatment. Over-the-counter human imm...

Neutralizing antibody (NAb) responses are promising immune effectors for control of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Protective activity and mechanisms of immunodeficiency virus-specific NAbs have been increasingly scrutinized in animals infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), chimeric simian/human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) and related viruses. Studies on such models...

Filters with well-defined holes were used to determine the effective diameters in buffer of human immunodeficiency virus type 1, herpes simplex virus type 1, and four bacteriophages (phi X174, T7, PRD1, and phi 6), which may serve as surrogate viruses for testing barrier materials. Bacteriophages phi 6 and PRD1 most closely model human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in filtration size.

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: KELEA: Kinetic Energy Limiting Electrostatic Attraction; ACE: Alternative Cellular Energy; ICE: Insufficiency of Cellular Energy; AIDS: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; CFS: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; HSV: Herpes Simplex Virus; HZV: Herpes Zoster Virus; HPV: Human Papillomavirus; HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus; UV: Ultraviolet; S...

Other tumours that have been reported in HIV -positive persons but for which an association with the infection is not convincing incIude mesothelioma (Behling et al., 1993), cerebral glial tumours (Chamberlain, 1994; MouIignier et al., 1994) and cancer of the colon (Kaplan et al., 1987; Cappell et al., 1988), pancreas (Kaplan et al., 1987; Monfardini et al., 1989) and kidney (Monfardini et al.,...

The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV -1 and HIV -2), the etiological agents of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), beIong to the lentivirus subfamily of the Retroviridae famiIy. Sequence ana1ysis of viral DNA indicates a separate ancestral lineage for HIV 1 and HIV -2. PhyIogenetic anaIysis of diverse geographical isolates has shown HIV-l to cluster into two distinct major groups...

Introduction: Southeast Asia is the second continent that has a higher population of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. Indonesia needs to be vigilant prevent spreading and transmission this virus. One services provided by government for initial screening HIV/ AIDS Voluntary Counseling Testing (VCT). This research aimed identify behavior factors related utilization VCT Man who Sex wi...

The advent of potent antiretroviral therapy has altered the expected natural history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and of many previously associated opportunistic complications, including malignancies. At the same time, HIV suppression has not affected all of these complications equally and the longer expected survival of infected patients may allow the development of newer co...