Borna disease is an immunopathological virus-induced encephalopathy comprising severe
inflammation and degenerative brain cell lesions which results in organ atrophy and chronic …

Equine infectious anemia (EIA) or swamp fever as it is known colloquially, has been
recognized as a viral disease of horses since the early 1900's when its filterable etiology …

Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) is a lentivirus with morphological and antigenic
similarities to human immunodeficiency virus, the causative agent of acquired …

Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is frequently accompanied by the
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) dementia complex. The role of specific HIV …

Macrophages and dendritic cells are known to play an important role in the establishment
and persistence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Besides antiretroviral …

The host genetic landscape surrounding integrated HIV-1 has an impact on the fate of the
provirus. Studies analysing HIV-1 integration sites in macrophages are scarce. We studied …

Twenty-five years after the first published description of AIDS, HIV-associated nephropathy
(HIVAN) remains an important cause of kidney disease in HIV-infected patients. The …

In the spring of 1981 the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta United States
reported on the occurrences of uncommon opportunistic infections (Pneumocystis carinii …

HIV-1 can establish both long lived and productive infection of macrophages (Mφ) but
circulating monocytes are less permissive to infection. Multiple studies have identified …

The costimulatory receptor CD28 is important in the development of both Th1 and Th2
responses. To further assess the requirement for CD28 in the development of Th1 and Th2 …