Infected Nucleus

American trypanosomosis is due to infection with Trypanosoma cruzi (Protozoa, Kinetoplastidae). This is a widespread parasite of small mammals and marsupials throughout most of the...

Vitamin D levels have been observed to be low in HIV-infected patients. If replacement of low vitamin D is warranted, supplementation is done with vitamin D2 or D3. HIV-infected pa...

Abstract The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is undeniably one of the most pressing medical emergencies of our era. The World Health Organization’s project...

Chlamydial pathogens cause a wide-range of infections and disease, known as chlamydioses, in humans, other mammals and birds. The causative organisms are Gram-negative obligate int...

Hantaviruses (genus Hantavirus, family Bunyaviridae) are rodent- and insectivore-borne zoonotic viruses. Several hantaviruses are human pathogens, some with 10-35% mortality, and c...

The arboviruses are all single-stranded RNA viruses, although they belong to four different viral families. Several important human pathogens belong to the mosquito-borne arbovirus...

Patients infected with HIV often develop dyslipidemia. Although lipid abnormalities have been described in HIV-infected patients from the pre-combination antiretroviral therapy era...

The key factor in HIV pathogenesis is the decline in CD4+ T cells with resultant immunodeficiency and chronic inflammation. Depletion of CD4+ T cells from the gastrointestinal muco...