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Hospitals, Health Care Professionals, and Aids: the Right to Know the Health Status of Professionals and Patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
This article addresses why patients and health care professionals (HCPs) with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) should have autonomy and privacy rights to choose whether to consent to an HIV test and to disclose their serologic status.
Gostin, Larry
core   +2 more sources

Functional impairment of Tax-specific but not cytomegalovirus-specific CD8+ T lymphocytes in a minor population of asymptomatic human T-cell leukemia virus type 1-carriers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) causes adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) in a small percentage of infected individuals.
Ayako Takamori   +15 more
core   +2 more sources

Coinfection by HTLV-I/II is associated with an increased risk of strongyloidiasis and delay in starting antiretroviral therapy for AIDS patients

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical characteristics and outcomes of HIV-1-HTLV-1 coinfected patients, in Bahia, Brazil. METHODS: Retrospective, comparative study. RESULTS: Among a total of 123 consecutive HIV infected patients, 20 men (20.6%) and 6 women (
C Brites   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overview: Viral Agents and Cancer. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Substantial evidence indicates that several common viruses are clearly or probable causal factors in the etiology of specific malignancies. These viruses either normally establish latency or can become persistent infections.
Mueller, Nancy Elsa
core   +1 more source

Viral hijacking of cellular metabolism. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This review discusses the current state of the viral metabolism field and gaps in knowledge that will be important for future studies to investigate.
Ch'ng, James   +2 more
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Transfusion-transmitted infections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Although the risk of transfusion-transmitted infections today is lower than ever, the supply of safe blood products remains subject to contamination with known and yet to be identified human pathogens.
Florian Bihl   +144 more
core   +1 more source

Choosing an allograft or autograft in orthopedic surgeries for athletes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Athletes and their doctors have the choice of using an allograft or autograft in reconstruction surgeries. The purpose of this study is to see if there is a difference in the healing mechanism and surgical outcome in using an allograft or autograft ...
Izzo, Cassandra M
core   +1 more source

Exacerbated inflammatory cellular immune response characteristics of HAM/TSP is observed in a large proportion of HTLV-I asymptomatic carriers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Background A small fraction of Human T cell Leukemia Virus type-1 (HTLV-I) infected subjects develop a severe form of myelopathy. It has been established that patients with HTLV-I associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) show an ...
Silvane Braga Santos   +39 more
core   +2 more sources

High Prevalence and Risk Factors for Infection with Human T-Lymphotropic Viruses 1 and 2 in the Municipality of Ananindeua, Pará, Northern Brazil

open access: yesViruses
This descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study evaluated HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 infections in Ananindeua, northern Brazil. Individuals were screened for anti-HTLV-1/2 using ELISA (Murex HTLV-I + II, DiaSorin).
Dara da Costa Soares   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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