Zoster Eye Disease Study: Rationale and Design.
The purpose of this study was to describe the rationale and design of the Zoster Eye Disease Study (ZEDS).ZEDS is a National Eye Institute-supported randomized clinical trial designed to det...
The purpose of this study was to describe the rationale and design of the Zoster Eye Disease Study (ZEDS).ZEDS is a National Eye Institute-supported randomized clinical trial designed to det...
72% of renal replacement therapy (RRT) clinics in Brazil are private. However, regarding payment for dialysis therapy, 80% of the patients are covered by the Unified Health System (SUS) and ...
Chronic hepatitis D is the most severe form of chronic viral hepatitis and to date, efficient therapeutic approaches against hepatitis D virus (HDV) are limited. Among the antiviral molecule...
Polymerase spiral reaction (PSR) opens new avenues for specific diagnosis of pathogens known for cryptic infection at field level and its application is still unexplored in the field of para...
Hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a life-threatening cancer. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) participate in HBV-related HCC progression. Based on the bioinforma...
The plasma separation card (PSC) is a new device for collecting finger-pricking-derived small amount of blood in a solid support that is stable at room temperature and can be archived, maile...
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a major cause of acute viral hepatitis. Better understanding of HEV subtypes involved in hepatitis E infections is essential. Investigation of sources and routes o...
To evaluate the incidence of HPV infection, and the frequency of the various genotypes, using mRNA and DNA testing; to assess their relationship with the cervical lesions and women's age in ...
MicroRNAs are small non-coding RNA that regulate gene expressions of human body. To date, numerous studies have reported that microRNAs possess great diagnostic and prognostic power in head ...
Herpesviruses are ubiquitous viruses, specifically the Epstein Barr virus (EBV). EBV and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) establish their latency for a long period in B-cells a...
Cirrhosis is often an asymptomatic disease. Its early diagnosis before the development of life-threatening complications is an important step to prevent the progression of the disease. The a...
Antiviral drugs are among the most common and important classes of pharmaceuticals to treat viral infections, however their continuous emission and persistence in the receiving environment h...
Sex differences in surgically treated HPV-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma are not defined due to the low number of affected women. We explored the oncologic outcomes of men ...
The immune system plays a key role in the host defense against viral pathogens. A signaling cascade is activated upon infection involving a variety of molecules such as pattern-recognition r...
Epidemiological studies have demonstrated the association between hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL), mainly for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) a...
D-galactosamine (Ga1N), a well-known hepatotoxic agent, induces liver injury resembling human viral hepatitis usually followed by the regeneration processes. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) i...
The diagnosis of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and monitoring of the vaccination efficiency against HBV require real-time analysis. The presence of antibody against hepatitis B virus surface antig...
There are insufficient studies comparing the efficacy of 5-aminolaevulinic acid (ALA) photodynamic therapy (PDT) and CO laser therapy in the treatment of cervical low-grade squamous intraepi...
The current use of ribavirin in difficult-to-cure chronic hepatitis C patients (HCV) and patients with severe respiratory infections is constrained by the issue of ribavirin-induced hemolyti...
Aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy (ALA-PDT) has been widely used in the treatment of condyloma acuminatum (CA), but there is a lack of reports on clinical factors related to CA relaps...
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