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Immunology of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy [PDF]

Journal of NeuroVirology, 2015
The high prevalence of asymptomatic JC polyomavirus (JCV) infection in the general population indicates coexistence with the human host and efficient immune control in healthy individuals. For unknown reasons, kidney-resident archetypic JCV strains can turn into neurotropic JCV strains which in hereditary or acquired states of immunodeficiency cause ...
Jelcic, Ivan, Jelcic, Ilijas, Faigle, Wolfgang, Sospedra, Mireia, Martin, Roland   +4 more
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome: prevalence, main characteristics, and outcomes in a Brazilian center

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2023
Background Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) - immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) has been rarely described in low- and middle-income countries.
Monize Nascimento Santana, Raphaela Ferrari, Arthur Cassa Macedo, Rosa Maria Nascimento Marcusso, Ruan de Andrade Fernandes, José Ernesto Vidal   +5 more
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Virus demyelination [PDF]

, 2003
A number of viruses can initiate central nervous system (CNS) diseases that include demyelination as a major feature of neuropathology. In humans, the most prominent demyelinating diseases are progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, caused by JC ...
Fazakerley, John K, Walker, Robert
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Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy treated with interleukin-7

Clinical Infection in Practice, 2020
Background: Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare devastating brain infection caused by the JC polyomavirus (JCPyV) in patients with impaired cellular immune responses. In the absence of effective anti-viral therapy, it is unclear if
Karl B. Alstadhaug, Christine Hanssen Rinaldo, Liv Osnes, Irini Sereti, Hilde K. Ofte   +4 more
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The Pacific lineage (2E) of JC polyomavirus is prevalent in Sumba Island, Eastern Indonesia [PDF]

, 2008
Recent studies have identified a Pacific lineage (2E) of JC polyomavirus (also designated as JC virus or JCV) that occurs in both Island Southeast Asia and Oceania, but not in mainland Asia.
Nakazawa, Minato, Soemantri, Augustinus, Shimizu, Hana, Ohtsuka, Ryutaro, Shan, Zhong, Kitamura, Tadaichi, Shibuya, Ayako, Ishida, Takafumi, Yogo, Yoshiaki, Sekiyama, Makiko, Takasaka, Tomokazu, Ikegaya, Hiroshi   +11 more
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The Modern Value of Clinical Autopsies

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2015
Keywords: Autopsy; Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active; HIV Infections; Leukoencephalopathy, Progressive Multifocal.
Carlos Marques Pontinha
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Rituximab-Associated Inflammatory Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2016
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare disease of the immunosuppression that results from neurotropic invasion of the JC virus which leads to demyelination of oligodendrocytes.
Chandra Punch, Christina Schofield, Penelope Harris   +2 more
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Myoclonus as an unusual presentation of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in a HIV positive patient [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Neurology, 2012
From mild muscular contractions to gross jerks affecting the whole body, myoclonus is an involuntary movement caused by an excessive discharge from a group of neurons located in one or multiple sites from cortical to peripheral level.
Lucian Chicea, Elena Cecilia Rosca, Ovidiu Rosca, M. Ciolan, Mihaela Simu   +4 more
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Evaluation of patients treated with natalizumab for progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy [PDF]

, 2006
Background: Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) was reported to have developed in three patients treated with natalizumab. We conducted an evaluation to determine whether PML had developed in any other treated patients.
Major, E.O., Clifford, D.B., Habil, M., Fischer, S., Barkhof, F., Yousry, T.A., Hou, J., Radue, E.-W., Ryschkewitsch, C., Mueller-Lenke, N., Jäger, H.R., Sanchez, E., Curfman, B., Miszkiel, K., Fahle, G.   +14 more
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Does Mefloquine (Lariam®) Therapy Improve the Prognosis of Human JC Polyomavirus-Induced Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy? [PDF]

Journal of Biomedical & Clinical Research, 2014
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is ademyelinating disease caused by infection with Polyomavirus hominis 2, popularly known as JC virus (JCV).
Zlatko Kalvatchev, Iliya Tsekov
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