Pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus infection

JA Levy - Microbiological reviews, 1993 - Am Soc Microbiol
The lentivirus human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS by interacting with a large
number of different cells in the body and escaping the host immune response against it. HIV …

Human immunodeficiency virus infection in children

J Falloon, J Eddy, L Wiener, PA Pizzo - The Journal of pediatrics, 1989 - Elsevier
In 1982, soon after the acquired immunodeficiency Syndrome had been observed in
homosexual men and intravenous drug users, some children were found to have an illness …

Human immunodeficiency virus infection induces both polyclonal and virus-specific B cell activation.

A Shirai, M Cosentino… - The Journal of …, 1992 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) were obtained from HIV-1-infected patients at different
stages of disease. The absolute number of IgM-, IgG-, and IgA-producing lymphocytes per …

What determines the age at the menopause?

J Ginsberg - BMJ: British Medical Journal, 1991 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
4 AIMS Trial Study Group. Effect of intravenous APSAC on mortality after acute myocardial
infarction: preliminary report of a placebo controlled trial. Lancet 1988; i: 545-9. 5 Wilcox RG …

Immune responses in HIV-exposed seronegatives: have they repelled the virus?

SL Rowland-Jones, A McMichael - Current opinion in immunology, 1995 - Elsevier
Over the past two years, a number of reports have described specific cellular immune
responses to HIV in some individuals who, despite exposure to the virus, remain uninfected …

Paediatric HIV infection

G Scarlatti - The Lancet, 1996 - thelancet.com
By the year 2000 there will be six million pregnant women and five to ten million children
infected with HIV-1. Intervention strategies have been planned and in some instances …

Women and AIDS

CA Campbell - Social Science & Medicine, 1990 - Elsevier
This article describes the epidemiology of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in
women in the United States. Comparisons of female and male transmission categories are …

B-cell activation and HIV-1 infection: deeds and misdeeds

A Amadori, L Chieco-Bianchi - Immunology today, 1990 - Elsevier
After the earlier descriptions of a profound B-celi deregulation in HIV-l-infected subjects,
Zolla-Pazner suggested that B lymphocytes might be involved in the pathogenesis of …

Early diagnosis of HIV infection in infants by detection of IgA HIV antibodies

BJ Weiblen, R Hoff, FK Lee, S Nesheim, AJ Nahmias… - The Lancet, 1990 - Elsevier
With the aim of achieving earlier diagnosis of human, immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
in infants, IgA and IgM HIV antibodies in serum samples from babies born to seropositive …

Rate of transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection from mother to child and short-term outcome of neonatal infection: results of a prospective …

WA Andiman, BJ Simpson, B Olson… - American Journal of …, 1990 - jamanetwork.com
• In an attempt to determine the rate of transmission of infection from human
immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) antibody–positive women to their offspring and to …