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A Zoonotic Adenoviral Human Pathogen Emerged through Genomic Recombination among Human and Nonhuman Simian Hosts

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

A human adenovirus species B subtype 21a associated with severe pneumonia

scientific article published on 27 June 2014

A rapid quantitative PCR-based assay for testing antiviral agents against human adenoviruses demonstrates type specific differences in ribavirin activity

scientific article published on 18 April 2006

A rolling circle amplification screen for polyomaviruses other than BKPyV in renal transplant recipients confirms high prevalence of urinary JCPyV shedding

scientific article published on 13 February 2015

Activation of the Jak-Stat Pathway in Cells That Exhibit Selective Sensitivity to the Antiviral Effects of IFN-beta Compared with IFN-alpha

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Acute adenoviral infection of a graft by serotype 35 following renal transplantation

scientific article published on January 2003

Acute hepatitis B virus infection by genotype F despite successful vaccination in an immune-competent German patient

scientific article published on 26 February 2007

Adenovirus infection and treatment with cidofovir in children after liver transplantation

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Adenoviruses and enteroviruses as pathogens in myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy

scientific article published in April 1999

Advances in the management of disseminated adenovirus disease in stem cell transplant recipients: impact of adenovirus load (DNAemia) testing

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

Adverse effects of rabies pre- and postexposure prophylaxis in 290 health-care-workers exposed to a rabies infected organ donor or transplant recipients.

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An Improved One-Step Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR Assay for Detection of Norovirus

scientific article published on 4 December 2015

An adenovirus type F41 outbreak in a pediatric bone marrow transplant unit: analysis of clinical impact and preventive strategies

scientific article published in May 2008

An outbreak of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis caused by a new intermediate adenovirus 22/H8 identified by molecular typing

scientific article published on 24 August 2006

Antiviral activity of WIN 54954 in coxsackievirus B2 carrier state infected human myocardial fibroblasts.

scientific article published on January 1998

Antiviral activity of cidofovir and ribavirin against the new human adenovirus subtype 14a that is associated with severe pneumonia

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Attachment of coxsackievirus B3 variants to various cell lines: mapping of phenotypic differences to capsid protein VP1.

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Basal core promoter and precore mutations in the hepatitis B virus genome enhance replication efficacy of Lamivudine-resistant mutants

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CMV-, EBV- and ADV-specific T cell immunity: screening and monitoring of potential third-party donors to improve post-transplantation outcome

scientific article published on 23 July 2013

CMV-Enterokolitis bei einer erwachsenen lebertransplantierten Patientin als Ursache rezidivierender Invaginationen?

scientific article published on 05 February 2010

Characterization of human myocardial fibroblasts immortalized by HPV16 E6--E7 genes

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Chronic Hepatitis E in Heart Transplant Recipients

scientific article published on July 23, 2012

Chronic hepatitis E in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients in a low-endemic country?

scientific article published on 28 December 2011

Clinical significance of quantitative cytomegalovirus detection in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in lung transplant recipients

scientific article published on October 2, 2012

Combination of soluble coxsackievirus-adenovirus receptor and anti-coxsackievirus siRNAs exerts synergistic antiviral activity against coxsackievirus B3.

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Comparison of the performance of direct fluorescent antibody staining, a point-of-care rapid antigen test and virus isolation with that of RT-PCR for the detection of novel 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus in respiratory specimens.

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Conserved sequences in the fibers of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis associated human adenoviruses

scientific article published in January 1997

Coxsackievirus genome in myocardium of patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published in May 1998

Cultured human myocardial fibroblasts of pediatric origin: natural human interferon-alpha is more effective than recombinant interferon-alpha 2a in carrier-state coxsackievirus B3 replication

scientific article published in October 1995

Delayed seroconversion and rapid onset of lymphoproliferative disease after transmission of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 from a multiorgan donor

scientific article published on 15 August 2013

Detection of Enterovirus RNA in the Myocardium of a Patient with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy by In Situ Hybridization

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

Detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) by real-time PCR in fecal samples for the non-invasive diagnosis of CMV intestinal disease.

scientific article published on 22 October 2014

Development and evaluation of a nucleic acid sequence based amplification (NASBA) protocol for the detection of enterovirus RNA in cerebrospinal fluid samples

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Donor origin of BKV replication after kidney transplantation

scientific article published on December 2013

Effective Apical Infection of Differentiated Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells and Induction of Proinflammatory Chemokines by the Highly Pneumotropic Human Adenovirus Type 14p1

scientific article published on 13 July 2015

Enrichment of Regulatory T Cells in Acutely Rejected Human Liver Allografts

scientific article published on September 20, 2012

Enterovirus heart disease of adults: a persistent, limited organ infection in the presence of neutralizing antibodies

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Enterovirus-induced myocarditis: Hemodynamic deterioration with immunosuppressive therapy and successful application of interferon-α

scientific article published on 01 October 1994

Epigenetic defects of hepatocellular carcinoma are already found in non-neoplastic liver cells from patients with hereditary haemochromatosis

scientific article published on 05 April 2007

Epstein-Barr virus-associated pneumonia and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome in a lung transplant recipient

scientific article published on 20 July 2010

Erratum zu: Nachweis einer Infektion mit Humanem Immundefizienzvirus (HIV): Serologisches Screening mit nachfolgender Bestätigungsdiagnostik durch Antikörper-basierte Testsysteme und/oder durch HIV-Nukleinsäure-Nachweis

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Evaluation of serological screening of cadaveric sera for donor selection for cornea transplantation

scientific article published in July 1999

Evaluation of twenty-one human adenovirus types and one infectivity-enhanced adenovirus for the treatment of malignant melanoma.

scientific article published on 25 October 2007

Evidence of molecular evolution driven by recombination events influencing tropism in a novel human adenovirus that causes epidemic keratoconjunctivitis

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Evolution of poliovirus type I during 5.5 years of prolonged enteral replication in an immunodeficient patient

scientific article published in December 1999

Extent of circulation of incorrectly labeled adenovirus 50 and 51 prototype preparations

scientific article published on June 2007

Factors Influencing Viral Clearing and Renal Function During Polyomavirus BK–Associated Nephropathy After Renal Transplantation

scientific article published on August 27, 2012

Frequent and Distinct Aberrations of DNA Methylation Patterns in Fibrolamellar Carcinoma of the Liver

scientific article published on October 29, 2010

From poliovirus surveillance to enterovirus surveillance: a complete picture?

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Fully automated detection and differentiation of pandemic and endemic coronaviruses (NL63, 229E, HKU1, OC43 and SARS-CoV-2) on the Hologic Panther Fusion

scientific article published on 22 December 2020

Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with autochthonous infection by hepatitis E virus subgenotype 3c.

scientific article published on 20 March 2013

Hepatitis E virus infection as a cause of graft hepatitis in liver transplant recipients

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Hepatitis E: An Emerging Infectious Disease in Germany?

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High intrahepatic HHV-6 virus loads but neither CMV nor EBV are associated with decreased graft survival after diagnosis of graft hepatitis

scientific article published on January 13, 2012

Highly sensitive detection of gene expression of an intronless gene: amplification of mRNA, but not genomic DNA by nucleic acid sequence based amplification (NASBA)

scientific article published on May 1998

Human mastadenovirus type 70: a novel, multiple recombinant species D mastadenovirus isolated from diarrhoeal faeces of a haematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipient

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Improved quantitative PCR protocols for adenovirus and CMV with an internal inhibition control system and automated nucleic acid isolation

scientific article published on June 1, 2012

Induction of a broad spectrum of inflammation-related genes by Coxsackievirus B3 requires Interleukin-1 signaling

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Inhibition of coxsackievirus B3 carrier state infection of cultured human myocardial fibroblasts by ribavirin and human natural interferon-alpha

scientific article published on May 1997

Inhibition of smooth muscle cell migration and neointima formation in vein grafts by overexpression of matrix metalloproteinase-3.

scientific article published on March 2009

Interferons in enteroviral heart disease: modulation of cytokine expression and antiviral activity

scientific article published on 12 September 2003

Intrahepatic long-term persistence of parvovirus B19 and its role in chronic viral hepatitis

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

Low level myocardial parvovirus B19 persistence is a frequent finding in patients with heart disease but unrelated to ongoing myocardial injury.

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Molecular Characterization of Hemagglutination Domains on the Fibers of Subgenus D Adenoviruses

scientific article published on March 1, 1998

Molecular Evolution of Human Adenovirus (HAdV) Species C

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Molecular identification of adenovirus sequences: a rapid scheme for early typing of human adenoviruses in diagnostic samples of immunocompetent and immunodeficient patients

scientific article published on September 2006

Molecular mechanisms in the pathogenesis of enteroviral heart disease: acute and persistent infections

scientific article published on August 1993

Molecular studies on enteroviral heart disease: patterns of acute and persistent infections

scientific article published on August 1, 1991

Monitoring of adenovirus infection in pediatric transplant recipients by quantitative PCR: report of six cases and review of the literature.

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Myocardial enterovirus infection with left ventricular dysfunction: a benign disease compared with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

scientific article published in April 1995

Myocarditis

scientific article published in August 1993

New real-time PCR detects prolonged norovirus excretion in highly immunosuppressed patients and children

scientific article published on 22 July 2009

Novel resistance-associated mutations of thymidine kinase and DNA polymerase genes of herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2.

scientific article published in January 2011

Patient, virus, and treatment-related risk factors in pediatric adenovirus infection after stem cell transplantation: results of a routine monitoring program

scientific article published on 19 November 2013

Phylogenetic analysis of the main neutralization and hemagglutination determinants of all human adenovirus prototypes as a basis for molecular classification and taxonomy.

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Phylogeny and primary structure analysis of fiber shafts of all human adenovirus types for rational design of adenoviral gene-therapy vectors

scientific article published on 5 August 2009

Preconceptional oral vaccination prevents experimental biliary atresia in newborn mice

scientific article published on 12 April 2010

Prevalence, quantification and typing of adenoviruses detected in river and treated drinking water in South Africa

scientific article published in January 2005

Prolonged Detection of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 (Hsv-2) Dna in Cerebrospinal Fluid despite Antiviral Therapy in a Patient with Hsv-2-Associated Radiculitis

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Quantification of cytomegalovirus DNA levels in intestinal biopsies as a diagnostic tool for CMV intestinal disease

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Quantitative multiplex real-time PCR for the sensitive detection of interferon β gene induction and viral suppression of interferon β expression

scientific article published on December 7, 2003

Quantitative temporal and spatial distribution of adenovirus type 2 correlates with disease manifestations and organ failure during disseminated infection

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Radioimmunoimaging of subacute infective endocarditis using a technetium-99m monoclonal granulocyte-specific antibody

scientific article published in January 1991

Rapid and quantitative detection of human adenovirus DNA by real‐time PCR

scientific article published on June 1, 2003

Rapid quantitative PCR assays for the simultaneous detection of herpes simplex virus, varicella zoster virus, cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, and human herpesvirus 6 DNA in blood and other clinical specimens

scientific article published in March 2008

Rapid routine detection of enterovirus RNA in cerebrospinal fluid by a one-step real-time RT-PCR assay

scientific article published on 27 December 2007

Recombinant Interferons beta and gamma have a higher antiviral activity than interferon-alpha in coxsackievirus B3-infected carrier state cultures of human myocardial fibroblasts.

scientific article published in April 1996

Risk groups for clinical complications of norovirus infections: an outbreak investigation

scientific article published in January 2006

Risk of rabies infection and adverse effects of postexposure prophylaxis in healthcare workers and other patient contacts exposed to a rabies virus-infected lung transplant recipient.

scientific article published on 30 March 2007

Sensitivity of human adenoviruses to different groups of chemical biocides

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Significance of coronary angiography, left heart catheterization, and endomyocardial biopsy for the diagnosis of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

scientific article published in November 1992

Single-point mutations causing more than 100-fold underestimation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) load with the Cobas TaqMan HIV-1 real-time PCR assay.

scientific article published on 04 February 2009

Spontaneous clearance of chronic hepatitis C after liver transplantation: are hepatitis C virus-specific T cell responses the clue?

scientific article published in August 2008

Subclassification of dilated cardiomyopathy and interferon treatment

scientific article published in December 1995

Symptomatic hepatitis B virus (HBV) reactivation despite reduced viral fitness is associated with HBV test and immune escape mutations in an HIV-coinfected patient

scientific article published in December 2008

Synergistic interaction of interferon-beta and interferon-gamma in coxsackievirus B3-infected carrier cultures of human myocardial fibroblasts

scientific article published on November 1, 1992

Transient induction of cytokine production in human myocardial fibroblasts by coxsackievirus B3.

scientific article published on April 2000

Type dependent patterns of human adenovirus persistence in human T-lymphocyte cell lines.

scientific article published on 11 September 2013

Unique sequence features of the Human adenovirus 31 complete genomic sequence are conserved in clinical isolates

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Varicella vaccination in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

scientific article published in The Lancet