Antibody to Dengue 1 Detected More Than 60 Years after Infection

Cited for More Than 60 Years of Flavor Research

Persistence of Neutralizing Antibody Against Dengue Virus 2 After 70 Years from Infection in Nagasaki

This study aimed to investigate the duration of humoral immune responses to dengue virus (DENV) infection in Japanese who experienced acute febrile illness with hemorrhagic manifestations 70 years ago, when an epidemic of dengue occurred in Nagasaki, Japan, from 1942 to 1944. A Japanese volunteer requested serological diagnosis of DENV infection in 2014 and donated blood sample to measure the a...

[Ten years of HIV-AIDS epidemic in more than 60 years in Federal District--Brazil].

INTRODUCTION The progressive increase in number of HIV/AIDS cases in old age brings the necessity of studies about the specificities of this phenomenon by region. OBJECTIVE To identify the epidemiology in AIDS cases diagnosed in Distrito Federal - Brasil, in individuals aged > 60 years old. METHODS We conducted a time serie study with secondary data from SINAN/AIDS for the period January 19...

Ebola outbreak claims more than 60 lives.

Doctors are fighting to contain an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Guinea that has claimed more than 60 lives and is now being reported in the capital, 400 miles away. As of 27 March, the World Health Organization said that there had been 103 suspected and confirmed cases of the disease, including 66 deaths. WHO said it could not confirm all cases because of the rapidly changing situati...

Thoracic splenosis more than 40 years after thoracoabdominal trauma.

Splenosis is a rare occurrence that is defined as autotransplantation of splenic tissue usually after splenic rupture due to trauma and subsequent splenectomy. Although splenosis most commonly occurs in the abdomen, the authors report a rare case of thoracic splenosis after remote thoracoabdominal trauma. A 62-year-old woman was found to have lower-lobe, pleural-based nodular lesions in juxtapo...