A randomized cross-over trial of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2)-suppressive therapy (valacyclovir, 500 mg twice daily, or placebo for 8 weeks, a 2-week washout period, then the alternative therapy for 8 weeks) was conducted among 20 Peruvian women coinfected with HSV-2 and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) who were not on antiretroviral therapy. Plasma samples (obtained weekly) a...

PURPOSE: To report a case of unilateral acute retinal necrosis after herpetic encephalitis CASE REPORT: A young man was referred with a chief complaint of blurred vision and pain of the left eye 1 month after herpetic encephalitis in the left frontotemporal lobe. The patient had multiple foci of retinitis in the retinal periphery associated with vitritis, blot retinal hemorrhage and retinal art...

The replication of herpes simplex virus type I and herpes simplex virus type 2 was studied in two isolated hamster cell lines. These lines developed after being treated with herpes simplex virus type 2 inactivated with 7,~2-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene. One cell line that developed, HDC-22, had a hypodiploid chromosome number and was missing a D-group chromosome. Growth studies revealed that this ...

results phylogenetic analysis of the gene revealed that pakistani 1a hcv strains are in the start of third cluster and there is a difference between inter pakistani isolates at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. material and methods patient sera infected with hepatitis c virus, genotype 1a, were obtained from molecular diagnostics lab, cemb, university of the punjab lahore by using bd vacu...

conclusions findings of the present study showed that hcv genotype 3 was the predominant genotype followed by the subtypes 1a and 1b in yazd, central province of iran. in addition, there was no difference between hcv load and genotypes 1 and 3. hcv genotyping is recommended in other provinces of iran. objectives the main aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of hcv genotypes in yazd,...

results in 12 patients (37%), human papilloma virus was detected by pcr method. in addition, there was no difference in distribution of patients with respect to affliction with human papilloma virus between high-risk and low-risk groups. there was no relationship between clinical manifestation and type of papilloma virus. materials and methods this cross-sectional study was conducted on 32 pati...

conclusions a high rate of 25% and 24.13% of hbv dna was detected among patients with hodgkin and non-hodgkin lymphoma, respectively. results three out of 12 (25%) hodgkin samples and seven out of 29 (24.13%) non-hodgkin showed positive hbv dna results. the results of sequencing revealed that the d genotype was predominant among the positive hbv patients. interestingly an unpredictable amino ac...

background: seborrheic keratoses (sk) are common, benign and often multiple skin tumors with disputed etiology. a follicular origin, late onset nevoid disturbance or local arrest in maturation of keratinocytes have been proposed. human papilloma virus (hpv) has been detected in a small number of cases, particularly those from the genital region. objectives: the aim of our study was to evaluate ...

background: breast cancer is the most common malignancy in females worldwide. several etiological factors including environmental factors have been recognized for breast cancer. epstein barr virus as a viral etiological factor has been proposed. so far, several studies have investigated the relationship between development of breast cancer and epstein barr virus, but few have been done in iran....