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Hospitals, Health Care Professionals, and Aids: the Right to Know the Health Status of Professionals and Patients [PDF]
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
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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]
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
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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
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Overview: Viral Agents and Cancer. [PDF]
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
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Viral hijacking of cellular metabolism. [PDF]
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]
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
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Choosing an allograft or autograft in orthopedic surgeries for athletes [PDF]
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
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Exacerbated inflammatory cellular immune response characteristics of HAM/TSP is observed in a large proportion of HTLV-I asymptomatic carriers [PDF]
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
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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
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