| lipids of putative relevance to virulence in mycobacterium tuberculosis: phthiocerol dimycocerosate and the attenuation indicator lipid. | lipid compositions of 40 patient isolates of mycobacterium tuberculosis derived from madras, burma, rangoon, and east africa were studied, and two major populations of tubercle bacilli were distinguished. nearly all of the strains previously designated as attenuated for the guinea pig (d. a. mitchison) are characterized by a specific phenolic phthiocerol diester which is identified with the aglycone moieties of mycosides a and b (and probably g). this lipid (ai) was not seen in any of the more v ... | 1974 | 4271720 |
| molecular characteristic-based epidemiology of hepatitis b, c, and e viruses and gb virus c/hepatitis g virus in myanmar. | we carried out a molecular characteristic-based epidemiological survey of various hepatitis viruses, including hepatitis b virus (hbv), hepatitis c virus (hcv), hepatitis e virus (hev), and gb virus c (gbv-c)/hepatitis g virus (hgv), in myanmar. the study population of 403 subjects consisted of 213 healthy individuals residing in the city of yangon, myanmar, and the surrounding suburbs and 190 liver disease patients (155 virus-related liver disease patients and 35 nonviral disease patients). the ... | 2001 | 11283083 |
| study of vector, amplifier, and human infection with japanese encephalitis virus in a rangoon community. | a prospective serologic study was undertaken in a rangoon community in 1982 to quantify japanese encephalitis virus infections in humans and in pigs. the prevalence, relative abundance, and host preference of culex mosquitoes in the area were also determined. japanese encephalitis virus infection was detected in 52.1% of the pigs, although concurrent human japanese encephalitis virus infection was not detected. the known japanese encephalitis virus vector mosquito species were prevalent in the s ... | 1988 | 2848412 |