Human herpesvirus type 6
The Seropositivity Rate of Human Herpesvirus Type 6 among Infants in Diyala Province, Iraq
... Human herpesvirus type 6 is a widespread beta-herpesvirus that was initially iso- lated in 1986 from patients with lymphoproliferative disorders [1], and initially characterized as a ...
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THE ANTI-HUMAN HERPESVIRUS TYPE 6 IGM POSITIVITY RATE IN CHILDREN WITH ROSEOLA INFANTUM IN DIYALA PROVINCE
... Background: Human herpesvirus type 6 (HHV-6) has been shown to infect almost all children by 4 years of age. Primary infection causes an undifferentiated febrile illness, with ...
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The Role of Human Herpesvirus Type 6 (HHV 6) in Convulsions Seen in Children at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra
... Lumber puncture is commonly performed in patients who have had an acute seizure to evaluate for evidence of CNS infection as an underlying cause [38]-[40]. Interpretation of CSF finding in the context of this study is ...
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Systemic Inflammatory Response and Chronic Herpesvirus Infections in Children
... by human herpesvirus type 6 (HHV 6), Epstein– Barr virus (EBV), cytomegalovirus (CMV), and mixed HVIs and to determine the cost of treatment with the identification of an economic ...
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... Persistent herpesvirus infec- tions including cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection may be particularly important for telomere dynamics via mechanisms such as inflammation, oxidative stress, and their impact on ...
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Human Herpesvirus 6 Infects Dendritic Cells and Suppresses Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Replication in Coinfected Cultures
... substantial in vitro (21, 24, 33, 35, 37–39, 57) and in vivo (2, 16, 26) evidence for this theory; however, other studies have not supported it (12, 19, 31, 32, 47, 60). Viral strain and dose dif- ferences may account ...
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Coinfection of SCID-hu Thy/Liv Mice with Human Herpesvirus 6 and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1
... It is, of course, important to note that the SCID-hu Thy/Liv mouse model may not accurately reflect the natural infection pattern occurring in humans. A major caveat related to this model system is the absence of both ...
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Variant-Specific Tropism of Human Herpesvirus 6 in Human Astrocytes
... in human astrocytes has implications for the role of these variants in human neurological ...While human astrocytes are sus- ceptible for HHV-6 B infection, HHV-6A appears to be more lytic and ...
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Association of Human Herpesvirus 6 and 8 in Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Type during Exacerbation
... etiology. Human herpes viruses have probable effects on relapsing-remitting MS pathogenesis presumably through molecular mimicry and/or bystander ...viruses, human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) ...
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CD4 Promoter Transactivation by Human Herpesvirus 6
... Identification of a ATF/CRE site important for transactiva- tion by HHV-6. The region located between 271 and 244 of the CD4 promoter is important for HHV-6-mediated transac- tivation (Fig. 3B). To ...
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In vitro susceptibility of T lymphocytes from chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) to human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6): a potential animal model to study the interaction between HHV-6 and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in vivo.
... 6 In Vitro Susceptibility of T Lymphocytes from Chimpanzees Pan troglodytes to Human Herpesvirus 6 HHV-6: a Potential Animal Model To Study the Interaction between HHV-6 and Human Immuno[r] ...
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Human Herpesvirus 6 Variant A but Not Variant B Induces Fusion from Without in a Variety of Human Cells through a Human Herpesvirus 6 Entry Receptor, CD46
... express human CD46. Human CD46 is reported to be a cellular receptor of HHV-6A and HHV-6B ...a human measles virus (MV) receptor (13, 36). CD46 is a ubiquitous type 1 glycoprotein expressed on ...
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Infection of primary human fetal astrocytes by human herpesvirus 6.
... Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) is a recently discovered lym- photropic betaherpesvirus (3) which has been identified as the etiologic agent for exanthem subitum (roseola) (35) and as a major ...
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Identification of Human Herpesvirus 6 Latency-Associated Transcripts
... similar situation is observed in HCMV latent transcripts; they carry IE1/IE2 ORFs, and short ORFs appeared in the latency- specific exon. Furthermore, in the case of the HCMV latent transcripts the translation of IE1/IE2 ...
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Human Herpesvirus 6B Induces Cell Cycle Arrest Concomitant with p53 Phosphorylation and Accumulation in T Cells
... Previously, HHV-6B was shown to induce apoptosis (16, 17, 31). However, our findings are not in conflict with those of an initial report (17) in which apoptosis was found to be enhanced by extracellular factors (tumor ...
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Identification and characterization of a human herpesvirus 6 gene segment capable of transactivating the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 long terminal repeat in an Sp1 binding site-dependent manner.
... Transactivation of the human immunodeficiency virus promoter by human herpesvirus 6 HHV-6 strains GS and Z-29 in primary human T lymphocytes and identification of transactivating HHV-6 g[r] ...
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Identification and characterization of a human herpesvirus 6 gene segment that trans activates the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 promoter.
... 1564-1570 0022-538X/92/031564-07$02.00/0 Copyright © 1992, American Society for Microbiology Identification and Characterization of a Human Herpesvirus 6 Gene Segment That trans Activate[r] ...
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Induction of T-cell apoptosis by human herpesvirus 6.
... sis. First, apoptosis was detected morphologically in small cells and not in virus-producing large syncytial cells, and virus struc- tures were hardly detected in apoptotic cells by electron mi- croscopy. Second, ...
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The simultaneous presence and expression of human hepatitis C virus (HCV), human herpesvirus 6 (HHV 6), and human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV 1) in a single human T cell
... We have developed a system that isolates and replicates HCV in vitro. These isolates are called CIMM-HCV. This system has made it possible to analyze the biology, nature, and extent of HCV variability, among other ...
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Characterization of the DNA polymerase gene of human herpesvirus 6.
... We have used the same strategy to generate probes to map and isolate the gene for the DNA polymerase gene of HHV-6: the DNA sequences of the pol genes from five human herpesviruses are k[r] ...
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