Human papovavirus in a routine urine specimen of a four-year-old boy

1989 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Braza ◽  
Kathleen A. Johnson ◽  
Lois M. Grigg ◽  
Victor F. Lopez ◽  
Vadakkekara Kavirajan
2008 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ileana Vajiala ◽  
Ruxandra Subasu ◽  
Mirela Zorio ◽  
Rodica Picu

Upon screening identification of Stanozolol, GC/HRMS confirmation of the suspicious sample is done by reanalysis of the urine specimen, where a specific immunoaffinity purification procedure is used to selectively isolate the long term excreted metabolites of Stanozolol. By meeting the specific identification criteria for more than one metabolite of the same parent compound, additional evidence could be obtained in the decision making process in doping control.


1983 ◽  
Vol 75 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 131-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Possati ◽  
C. Rubini ◽  
M. Portolani ◽  
G. Gazzanelli ◽  
M. Piani ◽  
...  

1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
E O Major ◽  
P Matsumura

An origin-defective mutant DNA of simian virus 40 immortalized human embryonic kidney cells, maintaining a T protein which could function for human papovavirus BK DNA replication but not for human papovavirus JC DNA replication. Neither BK virions nor capsid proteins were produced in these cells. This may indicate that the simian virus 40 T protein in human embryonic kidney cells is competent for maintaining transformation and initiating and completing DNA replication for BK but is not competent for switching to late gene functions. Furthermore, it appears that the JC DNA replication origin cannot efficiently use the simian virus 40 T protein for its DNA synthesis, as suggested by its DNA sequence data (R. Frisque, J. Virol. 46:170-176, 1983; T. Miyamura, H. Jikoya, E. Soeda, and K. Yoshiike, J. Virol. 45:73-79, 1983).


Nature ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 284 (5752) ◽  
pp. 124-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Howley

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ray Chang ◽  
Hung-Chieh Yeh ◽  
I-Wen Ting ◽  
Chen-Yuan Lin ◽  
Han-Chun Huang ◽  
...  

AbstractThe role of the difference and ratio of albuminuria (urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio, uACR) and proteinuria (urine protein-to-creatinine ratio, uPCR) has not been systematically evaluated with all-cause mortality. We retrospectively analyzed 2904 patients with concurrently measured uACR and uPCR from the same urine specimen in a tertiary hospital in Taiwan. The urinary albumin-to-protein ratio (uAPR) was derived by dividing uACR by uPCR, whereas urinary non-albumin protein (uNAP) was calculated by subtracting uACR from uPCR. Conventional severity categories of uACR and uPCR were also used to establish a concordance matrix and develop a corresponding risk matrix. The median age at enrollment was 58.6 years (interquartile range 45.4–70.8). During the 12,391 person-years of follow-up, 657 deaths occurred. For each doubling increase in uPCR, uACR, and uNAP, the adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) of all-cause mortality were 1.29 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.24–1.35), 1.12 (1.09–1.16), and 1.41 (1.34–1.49), respectively. For each 10% increase in uAPR, it was 1.02 (95% CI 0.98–1.06). The linear dose–response association with all-cause mortality was only observed with uPCR and uNAP. The 3 × 3 risk matrices revealed that patients with severe proteinuria and normal albuminuria had the highest risk of all-cause mortality (aHR 5.25, 95% CI 1.88, 14.63). uNAP significantly improved the discriminative performance compared to that of uPCR (c statistics: 0.834 vs. 0.828, p-value = 0.032). Our study findings advocate for simultaneous measurements of uPCR and uACR in daily practice to derive uAPR and uNAP, which can provide a better mortality prognostic assessment.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen F. Crain ◽  
Jeffrey C. Gershel

In this prospective study of 442 infants younger than 8 weeks of age who attended a pediatric emergency department with temperature ≥100.6°F (38.1° C), urinary tract infections (UTIs) were found in 33 patients (7.5%), 2 of whom were bacteremic. Clinical and laboratory data were not helpful for identifying UTIs. Of the 33 patients with UTIs, 32 had urinalyses recorded; 16 were suggestive of a UTI (more than five white blood cells per high-power field or any bacteria present). Of the 16 infants with apparently normal urinalysis results, three had an emergency department diagnosis suggesting an alternative bacterial focus of infection. If the physician had decided on the basis of apparently normal urinalysis results to forgo obtaining a urine culture, more than half of the UTIs would have been missed. Bag-collected specimens were significantly more likely to yield indeterminate urine culture results than either catheter or suprapublic specimens. In addition, uncircumcised males were significantly more likely to have a UTI than circumcised boys. These results suggest that a suprapubic or catheter-obtained urine specimen for culture is a necessary part of the evaluation of all febrile infants younger than 8 weeks of age, regardless of the urinalysis findings or another focus of presumed bacterial infection.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 286-287
Author(s):  
Renata Lazo de la Vega Giraud ◽  
Estefania Guadalupe Alvarado Bravo ◽  
Gabriel Chavez Giraud ◽  
Carmen Giraud Rodriguez

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