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    Journal of Medical Virology: Volume 53, Issue 2

    105-184
    October 1997
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Research Articles

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Infection of a human retinal pigment epithelial cell line with human herpesvirus 6 variant A

Yujiro Arao,  Sumi Soushi,  Yuko Sato,  Eiko Moriishi,  Yasutaka Ando,  Masao Yamada,  Jorge Padilla,  Fumio Uno,  Shiro Nii,  Takeshi Kurata, 
  • Pages: 105-110
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Relationship between human papillomavirus infection and overexpression of p53 protein in cervical carcinomas and lymph node metastases

Saban Cavuslu,  John Goodlad,  Carl Hobbs,  Angela M. Connor,  K. Shanti Raju,  Jennifer M. Best,  John Cason, 
  • Pages: 111-117
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Mutations in the NS5A gene of hepatitis C virus in North American patients infected with HCV genotype 1a or 1b

Wolfgang T. Hofgärtner,  Stephen J. Polyak,  Daniel G. Sullivan,  Robert L. Carithers Jr.,  David R. Gretch, 
  • Pages: 118-126
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Differentiation of core gene products of the hepatitis B virus in infected liver tissue using monoclonal antibodies

Nikolai V. Naoumov,  Krassimir A. Antonov,  Stefan Miska,  Vadim Bichko,  Roger Williams,  Hans Will, 
  • Pages: 127-138
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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African strains of hepatitis E virus that are distinct from Asian strains

Ranee Chatterjee,  Sergei Tsarev,  Jacques Pillot,  Pierre Coursaget,  Suzanne U. Emerson,  Robert H. Purcell, 
  • Pages: 139-144
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Contribution of tumor necrosis factor α and interleukin-1 α on the production of macrophage inflammatory protein-2 in response to respiratory syncytial virus infection in a murine macrophage cell line, RAW264.7

Shinya Sakai,  Hiroshi Ochiai,  Hiroshi Kawamata,  Toshiaki Kogure,  Yutaka Shimada,  Katsuhisa Nakajima,  Katsutoshi Terasawa, 
  • Pages: 145-149
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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The first human isolate of puumala virus in Scandinavia as cultured from phytohemagglutinin stimulated leucocytes

Per Juto,  Fredrik Elgh,  Clas Ahlm,  Oleg A. Alexeyev,  Karin Edlund,  Åke Lundkvist,  Göran Wadell, 
  • Pages: 150-156
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Infection with GB virus C and hepatitis C virus in drug addicts, patients on maintenance hemodialysis, or with chronic liver disease in Nepal

Santosh Man Shrestha,  Shobhana Shrestha,  Fumio Tsuda,  Naoto Sawada,  Takeshi Tanaka,  Hiroaki Okamoto,  Yuzo Miyakawa,  Makoto Mayumi, 
  • Pages: 157-161
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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High prevalence of hepatitis G viremia among kidney transplant patients in Thailand

Boonyos Raengsakulrach,  Leena Ong-aj-yooth,  Thanarak Thaiprasert,  Sanga Nilwarangkur,  Sompong Ong-aj-yooth,  Sumitda Narupiti,  Vipa Thirawuth,  Chonticha Klungthong,  Rapin Snitbhan,  David W. Vaughn, 
  • Pages: 162-166
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Seroprevalence of GB virus C and persistence of RNA and antibody

Robin A. Gutierrez,  George J. Dawson,  Mark F. Knigge,  Susan L. Melvin,  Cynthia A. Heynen,  Charles R. Kyrk,  Charles E. Young,  Robert J. Carrick,  George G. Schlauder,  Teresa K. Surowy,  Bruce J. Dille,  Paul F. Coleman,  Dwain L. Thiele,  Joseph R. Lentino,  Constance Pachucki,  Isa K. Mushahwar, 
  • Pages: 167-173
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Puumala virus and two genetic variants of tula virus are present in Austrian rodents

Michael D. Bowen,  Wolfgang Gelbmann,  Thomas G. Ksiazek,  Stuart T. Nichol,  Norbert Nowotny, 
  • Pages: 174-181
  • First Published: 07 December 1998

Case Reports

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Hepatitis C virus-induced leuko-thrombocytopenia and haemolysis

Giovanni Emilia,  Mario Luppi,  M. Grazia Ferrari,  Patrizia Barozzi,  Roberto Marasca,  Giuseppe Torelli, 
  • Pages: 182-184
  • First Published: 07 December 1998