Nature

Update on the laboratory diagnosis and monitoring of HIV infection

The diagnosis of HIV infection is most commonly accomplished using tests to detect antibody to HIV using a screening test, followed by a supplemental test for confirmation. However, in many countries, ...
Nature

Cellular immune responses persist and humoral responses decrease two decades after recovery from a single-source outbreak of hepatitis C

Figure 1: Humoral immune response. Although the factors and mechanisms that induce, mediate and regulate the immune response in the earliest phase after infection need to be studied in detail by ...
BMJ

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

1 Department of Rheumatology, René Descartes University, AP-HP, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France 2 Department of Rheumatology, General Hospital, Dijon University Hospital, Dijon, France 3 Laboratory of ...
BMJ

Dementia with Lewy bodies: a comparison of clinical diagnosis, FP-CIT single photon emission computed tomography imaging and autopsy

Background: Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a common form of dementia. The presence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology modifies the clinical features of DLB, making it harder to distinguish DLB ...
BMJ

Treatment of sleep apnoea syndrome decreases cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer's disease

5 Department of Public Health and Biostatistic Unit, Lille, France Background It is essential to detect and then treat factors that aggravate Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we sought to determine ...