aids is the most severe infectious disease that has appeared in the second half of the 20th *** the United States center of Disease control & prevention (US CDC) reported the first case of HIV carrier in the men wh...
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aids is the most severe infectious disease that has appeared in the second half of the 20th *** the United States center of Disease control & prevention (US CDC) reported the first case of HIV carrier in the men who had sex with men (MSM)population in 1981, HIV/aids had spread globally. By the end of December 2008, UNaids and WHO estimated that there were 3340 million (3110-3580 million)infected with HIV/aids worldwide.1 While the HIV/aids epidemic in Asia began later than the epidemic in Europe, America and Africa, experts predict that countries in Asia, especially in three countries, China,India and Indonesia, which have a population of more than 100 million, will have the world's largest number of HIV/aids in the near future.
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Aral, Sevgi O.Division of STD Prevention
National Center for HIV/AIDS Viral Hepatitis STD and TB Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta GA 30333 1600 Clifton Road NE Mailstop E-02 United States
Conceptually and theoretically, it is easy to see how short gaps and concurrent partnerships fuel the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV in populations. The consequences of concurrency are bounded...
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This study was performed to determine the prognostic role of preoperative serum carbohydrate antigen(CA)19-9 levels in the survival of patients with *** published up to June 1st,2010 that evaluated preoperative CA19-9...
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This study was performed to determine the prognostic role of preoperative serum carbohydrate antigen(CA)19-9 levels in the survival of patients with *** published up to June 1st,2010 that evaluated preoperative CA19-9 levels and the prognosis of cholangiocarcinoma were collected for *** required information for calculating indivi-dual relative risk(RR)was extracted from the studies,and a combined overall RR was *** eligible studies were *** study dealt with extra-hepatic cholangiocarcinoma,while the other eight studies analyzed intra-hepatic *** mean methodolo-gical quality score was 74.1%,ranging from 65.5%to 82.5%.The overall RR for the nine studies was 1.28(95%confidence interval=1.10–1.46),and the Z-score for overall effect was 13.83(P<0.001).The association between serum CA19-9 level and lymph node involvement was also *** combined RR was 1.471(95%confidence interval=0.411–5.264)and Z-score for overall effect was 0.59(P=0.553).CA19-9 levels were associated significantly with the prognosis of patients with *** meta-analysis shows that elevation of preoperative CA19-9 levels is correlated with a poor prognosis of patients with ***,larger scale and randomized studies are needed to draw a more substantive conclusion.
Potent combination antiretroviral therapy(cART)has significantly improved the life expectancy of people living with human immunodeficiency virus(HIV),but it has many side effects such as lipodystrophy(LD),hepatic steato...
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Potent combination antiretroviral therapy(cART)has significantly improved the life expectancy of people living with human immunodeficiency virus(HIV),but it has many side effects such as lipodystrophy(LD),hepatic steatosis,and lactic *** reverse transcriptase inhibitors(NRTIs)could damage the mito-chondria by inhibiting the human DNA polymerase gamma,leading to mtDNA ***,it remains uncertain whether NRTIs could induce the hypervariable region(HV)mutations of the D loop of mitochondria in Chinese HIV/aids patients,and whether that effect is different between individuals with and without ***,30 Chinese aids patients who were receiving antiretroviral drugs were recruited,among which 16 had symptomatic LD and 14 did *** samples were collected prior to and after 96 weeks of *** DNA was extracted from peripheral blood mononuclear cells(PBMCs).Fragments of 728 bp in length containing HV 2 were amplified by standard polymerase chain reaction(PCR).Direct DNA-sequencing analysis techni-ques were used to detect mitochondrial sequence variants between paired longitudinal *** were compared with the revised Cambridge Reference Sequence(rCRS)to determine mutation or *** showed that two years after ART,totally seven cases exhibited sequence variations,five individuals showed 73 A!G revised variation(two with and three without LD),while two cases of LD were found to have other nucleotide *** was no new alteration in individuals without *** conclusion,NRTIs could induce mutation of mtDNA HV 2,which might contribute to the development of LD.
Several studies have suggested that interleukin(IL)-15 is a promising adjuvant that promotes cellular immunity when administered with human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)*** we evaluated the effect of IL-15 plasmid on HI...
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Several studies have suggested that interleukin(IL)-15 is a promising adjuvant that promotes cellular immunity when administered with human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)*** we evaluated the effect of IL-15 plasmid on HIV-specific immune responses,especially cellular immunity,in eight rhesus *** monkeys were immunized three times with HIV DNA vaccine with or without IL-15 plasmid and boosted with recombinant Tiantan strain vaccinia virus-based HIV vaccine(rTV)22 weeks after the first *** we did not detect any significant differences in the HIV-specific CD81 T-cell response between monkeys with IL-15 coimmunization and monkeys with HIV vaccine alone,our results showed that the frequency of effector CD8^(+) memory T cells in the peripheral blood was significantly higher in monkeys with IL-15 coimmunization than those with HIV vaccine alone at almost all of the time points ***,the titers of anti-HIV antibodies were higher in Group T than those in Group C after rTV *** findings in rhesus monkeys suggest that IL-15 may be useful as a cytokine adjuvant for HIV vaccine.
Objective to explore dynamic characteristics of the HIV mother to child transmission (MTCT) epidemic in *** A deterministic dynamic transmission model was used to determine the effect of key parameters on the likely...
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Objective to explore dynamic characteristics of the HIV mother to child transmission (MTCT) epidemic in *** A deterministic dynamic transmission model was used to determine the effect of key parameters on the likely long-term trends of the HIV MTCT epidemic in *** 7.0 was used to develop the *** The number of the susceptibles (S),the transmission rate (β),and the screening proportion (α) of HIV positive pregnant women have the greatest impact on the HIV MTCT epidemic in *** growth of the MTCT epidemic in China could not be controlled only by decreasing the MTCT transmission *** prevalence of HIV positive women should be reduced and more pregnant women should be tested for *** prevention of MTCT (PMTCT) should focus not only on the reduction of HIV transmission rates and incidences of HIV among women but also on the increase of HIV testing for pregnant *** most cost-effective PMTCT means for China should be investigated in future studies.
Objective To estimate the probability of unprotected heterosexual vaginal transmission of HIV-1 from clients to Female Sex Workers (FSWs) in Kaiyuan County, Yunnan province, China, and analyze factors which impact t...
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Objective To estimate the probability of unprotected heterosexual vaginal transmission of HIV-1 from clients to Female Sex Workers (FSWs) in Kaiyuan County, Yunnan province, China, and analyze factors which impact the transmission probability. Methods An open cohort research of FSWs in Kaiyuan was created from surveys conducted in April 2008, October 2008, and April 2009. Two cross-sectional surveys of local clients were also carried out in May 2008 and November 2008. A model was developed to estimate the probability of unprotected heterosexual vaginal transmission of HIV-1 from clients to FSWs. Results The transmission probability from clients to FSWs was estimated as 0.0023 [95% CI 0.0014-0.0032] per unprotected heterosexual act. Conclusion The transmission probability among this group engaging in commercial sex in Yunnan province differs from that found in studies from other countries, and future studies should estimate the influence factors of HIV-1 transmission probability, such as stage of HIV infection, co-morbid sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Correctional facilities typically house large numbers of persons in close and crowded conditions for long periods. Clusters of communicable diseases ranging from simple viral upper respiratory infections to more serio...
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Social, cultural, and political aspects of the disease may alter the dynamics of *** the early 1980s, China's first outbreak of HIV was found in intravenous drug users (IDUs) and in the mid-1990s,there was a concen...
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Social, cultural, and political aspects of the disease may alter the dynamics of *** the early 1980s, China's first outbreak of HIV was found in intravenous drug users (IDUs) and in the mid-1990s,there was a concentrated outbreak in individuals who were donors and recipients of illegal blood donations.
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