Key words: fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis; graft failure; surface antigen, as well as anti-HBc and anti-HBe hepatitis B virus; interferon-a; renal transplantation antibodies. He was seronegative for HBeAg, anti-HCV antibody (ELISA 2) and cytomegalovirus (CMV). Serum hepatitis B virus DNA determined by PCR was negative. His pretransplant liver function was normal.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of hepatitis A virus antibodies in HIV-exposed and/or HIV-infected children and adolescents. METHODS Between September 1996 and August 2002, 352 patients (200 exposed, but not HIV-infected and 152 HIV exposed and infected) were included in this study. These children and adolescents (age ranged between 1 and 14 years) were all followed up at the Pediatric A...

Recent evidence shows that chronic liver disease induced by hepatitis delta virus is closely associated with production of autoantibodies. To verify this sera from patients with hepatitis delta virus and from those with hepatitis B virus mediated chronic liver disease were tested for a panel of autoantibodies. Although the traditional non-organ specific autoantibodies were similarly distributed...

Introduction. Hepatitis A virus is the most common cause of acute viral hepatitis, and in people over 25 years age disease may have different degrees severity. Even though hepatitis infection was long believed to be transmitted strictly by fecal-oral route, now this classified among sexually diseases. Homosexual population, especially those positive for human immunodeficiency virus, at greatest...

Resulting directly from the discovery of virus-related antigens, rapid progress has marked the last decade of viral hepatitis research. The hepatitis B virion has been tentatively identified as a DNA virus with an endogenous DNA polymerase, and new serological markers for type B hepatitis have been discovered. Hepatitis A antigen has been identified on a virus-like particle thought to be the he...

Resulting directly from the discovery of virus-related antigens, rapid progress has marked the last decade of viral hepatitis research. The hepatitis B virion has been tentatively identified as a DNA virus with an endogenous DNA polymerase, and new serological markers for type B hepatitis have been discovered. Hepatitis A antigen has been identified on a virus-like particle thought to be the he...

the burden of exposure to blood-borne pathogens (such as hepatitis b and c viruses) is considerable for health care workers. hepatitis virus transmission requires a non-immune host, an infectious source, and skin or mucous membrane injury. these three aspects are the main fields for preventional interventions. we reviewed major recent studies on this topic to identify precautions health care wo...

BACKGROUND Antibodies to cardiolipin (aCLs) are often detected in patients with autoimmune disorders or infectious diseases. OBJECTIVE To investigate the distribution of aCL isotypes and requirement of protein cofactor in viral infections in order to establish the importance, if any, of these antibodies in these infectious diseases. PATIENTS AND METHODS The isotype distribution of aCLs in t...

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