Preface Primary Changes in the Recommendations How to Use the Information in This Report Disease-Specific Recommendations Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia Toxoplasmic Encephalitis Cryptosporidiosis Microsporidiosis Tuberculosis Disseminated Infection with Mycobacterium avium Complex Bacterial Respiratory Infections Bacterial Enteric Infections Infection with Bartonella (Formerly Rochalimaea) Cand...

We have established several HLA-A2.1-transgenic rabbit lines to provide a host to study CD8(+) T cell responses during virus infections. HLA-A2.1 protein expression was detected on cell surfaces within various organ tissues. Continuous cultured cells from these transgenic rabbits were capable of presenting both endogenous and exogenous HLA-A2.1-restricted epitopes to an HLA-A2.1-restricted epit...

This article explains the rationale for development of interferons as therapeutic agents, and describes commercial products available today. It also provides a summary of studies that have been performed with interferons for use as exogenous biological response modifiers in viral infections. Overall, the best data exist for treatment of viral hepatitis B and C, for which interferons are a corne...

Objective(s) Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections are related to the genesis of various benign lesions and some malignant tumors, but no clear relationship has been identified so far between the subtypes of HPV and skin tag. Materials and Methods The present case-control study was designed to detect the existence of low risk and high risk HPV types in lesions of 50 patients with skin tag (c...

During HIV infection, the timing of opportunistic infections is not always associated with severity of CD4 T cell depletion, and different opportunistic pathogens reactivate at different CD4 T cell thresholds. Here, we examine how differences in the phenotype and function of pathogen-specific CD4 T cells influence susceptibility to HIV infection. By focusing on three common opportunistic infect...

Preface Primary Changes in the Recommendations How to Use the Information in This Report Disease-Specific Recommendations Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia Toxoplasmic Encephalitis Cryptosporidiosis Microsporidiosis Tuberculosis Disseminated Infection with Mycobacterium avium Complex Bacterial Respiratory Infections Bacterial Enteric Infections Infection with Bartonella (Formerly Rochalimaea) Cand...

Papillomavirus-like particles (VLPs) are a promising prophylactic vaccine candidate to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) infections and associated epithelial neoplasia. However, they are unlikely to have therapeutic effects because the virion capsid proteins are not detected in the proliferating cells of the infected epithelia or in cervical carcinomas. To increase the number of viral antigen ...

Serologic evidence of human papillomavirus 16 and 18 infections and risk of prostate cancer. cancer risk and serologic evidence of human papillomavirus infection: a population-based case-control study. between human-papillomavirus infection and risk of prostate cancer. den Berg BJ. Human papillomavirus antibody and risk of prostate cancer. In this issue, Leticia Fernandez and her fellow epidemi...