Volume 1, Issue 1 (2005) | American Journal of Infectious Diseases

Identification of Nocardiopsis dassonvillei in a Blood Sample from a Child

Flavio Lejbkowicz — 2005-03-31

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 31 March 2005; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2005.1.4

Nocardiopsis dassonvillei is an environmental aerobic actinomycete producing a funguslike mycelium and aerial hyphae. Here we report the first Nocardiopsis dassonvillei isolated from a blood sample fr...

Molecular Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from Turkey

Berrin Gencer — 2005-03-31

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 31 March 2005; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2005.5.11

To survey the circulating strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Turkey, all clinical isolates (381 patients) recovered in laboratories in six cities during one-month periods were collected and type...

Detection of HCV Components and Pathological Reactions in Apoptotic Hepatocytes from Chronically HCV-infected Patients

Viviana Falcón — 2005-03-31

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 31 March 2005; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2005.12.24

Analysis of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)-infected hepatocytes at the cellular level may contribute to elucidate the mechanisms of HCV pathogenesis. In this work, the presence of HCV components and patholog...

RETRACTED: Autopsy Room: A Potential Source of Infection at Work Place in Developing Countries

B. R. Sharma — 2005-03-31

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 31 March 2005; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2005.25.33

The American Journal of Infectious Diseases has decided to retract the manuscript titled "Autopsy Room: A Potential Source of Infection at Work Place in Developing Countries" authored by B. R. Sharma ...

Evidences of Hepatitis C Virus Replication in Hepatocytes and Peripheral Blood Monocuclear Cells from Patients Negative for Viral RNA in Serum

Viviana Falcón — 2005-03-31

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 31 March 2005; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2005.34.42

In this study, we examined the expression of hepatitis C virus (HCV) components in hepatocytes and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from patients positive for anti-HCV antibodies and negative...

Evidences of Apoptosis in Hepatitis C Virus-Infected Hepatocytes and Peripheral Blood Monocuclear Cells in the Absence of Liver Injury

Viviana Falcón — 2005-03-31

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 31 March 2005; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2005.43.49

Understanding the mechanism of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) pathogenesis is an important part of HCV research. In this study, the presence of apoptosis in HCV-infected liver and Peripheral Blood Mononuclea...

Factors Associated with Syringe Sharing Among Users of a Medically Supervised Safer Injecting Facility

Evan Wood — 2005-03-31

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 31 March 2005; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2005.50.54

Vancouver, Canada recently opened a medically supervised safer injecting facility (SIF) in an effort to reduce HIV and overdose risk and public injection drug use. We sought to examine factors associa...

Periodicity of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in a Mathematical Model that Incorporates Complacency

Flugentius Baryarama — 2005-03-31

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 31 March 2005; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2005.55.60

An HIV/AIDS model incorporating complacency for the adult population is formulated. Complacency is assumed a function of the number of AIDS cases in a community with an inverse relation. A method to f...

A Model for the CD4 Cell Counts in an HIV/AIDS Patient and its Application in Treatment Interventions

Richard O. Simwa — 2005-03-31

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 31 March 2005; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2005.61.65

The number of CD4 white blood cells has been established as an important clinical marker of disease progression to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) for persons infected with human immunodefic...

Interaction of a C-terminal Truncated Hepatitis C Virus Core Protein with Plasmid DNA Vaccine Leads to in vitro Assembly of Heterogeneous Virus-like Particles

Nelson Acosta-Rivero — 2005-03-31

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 31 March 2005; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2005.66.72

Recently, it has been shown that HCV core proteins (HCcAg) with C-terminal deletions assemble in vitro into virus-like particles (VLPs) in the presence of structured RNA molecules. Results presented i...