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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to investigate viral factors determining the early onset of T1D. Thanks to the quantification of viral exposures of T1D patients before the disease onset with questionnaires and environmental databases analyses, and through whole genome association studies of these patients, investigators could attempt to identify gene-virus interactions determining the age of T1D onset.
Hepatitis E virus is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus with genome of approximately 7.2kb in length. The HEV genome is capped at the 5' end followed by a small untranslated region of 27 nucleotides and polyadenalated at the 3' end preceded by another UTR of 65 nucleotides . HEV has three open reading frames: ORF1, ORF2 and ORF3 that encode structural and non- structural proteins. ORF1 is the largest one, approximately 5,000 nt in length, located at the 5 ' end and encodes important proteins for the replication process (methyltransferase, papain-like cysteine protease, helicase, and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase). A noncoding, hypervariable region within ORF1 displays substantial genetic diversity; this region seems to modulate the efficiency of HEV replication. Notably, the differences in the genome size among different HEV strains are confined mainly to this region .ORF2 is located at the 3' end, encodes structural capsid proteins of 660 amino acids and contains three potential glycosylation sites. The ORF2 protein contains multiple immunogenic sites and neutralizing antibodies are directed against it al., .The essential region in the protein for immunogenicity is 452aa-617aa and the neutralizing epitopes have recently been shown to be conformational .ORF3 is located between the other two reading frames and encodes a small phosphoprotein of 123 amino acids. Its exact function has not been yet determined, however, multiple functions have been proposed. It is thought to interact with cellular mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase and other extracellular kinases, promoting cell survival through activation of intracellular signaling pathways .Moreover, the binding of the ORF3 encoded protein to host-specific proteins seems to influence the pathogenesis of HEV infections .A schematic drawing of the HEV genome is described in Figure 1 .
A total of 63 subjects will be recruited into three groups (18 subjects per group will receive MVA BN RSV vaccine and three subjects per group will receive placebo). Liquid frozen suspension of MVA BN RSV. Each subject will receive two vaccinations with either MVA-BN RSV vaccine 1 x 108 TCID50 per 0.5 ml, 1 x 107 TCID50 per 0.5 ml or with placebo.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of 3 vaccination schedules of Ad26.ZEBOV and MVA-BN-Filo administered intramuscularly (IM) as 2-dose heterologous regimens.
This study will evaluate the antiviral efficacy, safety, and tolerability of ledipasvir/sofosbuvir (LDV/SOF) fixed dose combination (FDC) plus ribavirin (RBV) in treatment-naive adults with chronic genotype 3 hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.
This study is being done to compare three strategies to deliver HCV treatment with ledipasvir/sofosbuvir which is an approved therapy which is administered as one tablet by mouth daily for 12 weeks. The study population is persons living with HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection who also use drugs. Participants will be randomized into one of three treatment groups: 1. Usual care in the clinic. This treatment group will receive the standard of care for HCV treatment from their health care team. 2. Usual care plus peer-mentors. In addition to the usual care, this is an investigational strategy in which participants assigned to this group will be asked to interact with a peer-mentor who is someone who has been cured of their HCV infection. 3. Usual care plus incentives. In addition to the usual care, this is an investigational strategy in which participants assigned to this group will be given incentives after completing certain treatment goals during the course of the study. HCV treatment with ledipasvir/sofosbuvir is considered the standard of care for HCV and is recommended by experts in liver disease and infectious diseases.
This is a single center, open, dose-escalation phase 1 clinical trial. This study will determine the safety and side-effect profile, and immunogenicity of an investigational Ad5-EBOV vaccine in Healthy Adult Africans aged between 18-60 years in China.
The aim of the present study is to estimate the national annual prevalence and incidence of current hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among opioid dependent individuals in opioid substitution treatment (OST) based on a representative sample of approximately 2,500 outpatients in 100 substitution facilities across Germany. Furthermore, the study aims to describe factors influencing HCV therapy initiation and seroconversion during OST.
Non invasive methods are the only available methods to stage liver fibrosis during pregnancy. The safety of elastometry - ultrasound based - is obvious, as medical supervision of pregnancy is based on ultrasonography, both methods using same wavelengths. Therefore, this method is sometimes used in pregnant women with recent diagnosis of chronic viral hepatitis infection, whereas its validity in pregnant women has never been studied. This lack of data justifies our study.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the antiviral effect of repeated oral dosing of JNJ 53718678 compared to placebo in healthy adult participants infected through inoculation with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-A Memphis 37b virus.