| depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (dmpa) and risk of invasive adenocarcinomas and adenosquamous carcinomas of the uterine cervix. who collaborative study of neoplasia and steroid contraceptives. | a hospital-based case-control study was conducted in two hospitals in bangkok, thailand, and in one hospital each in chiang mai, thailand, mexico city, mexico and nairobi, kenya. one purpose of this study was to determine whether the long-acting progestational contraceptive, depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (dmpa), alters risk of invasive cervical carcinomas with adenomatous histological features. information on prior use of dmpa, screening for cervical cancer, and the suspected risk factors fo ... | 1995 | 8585888 |
| prevalence of cytomegalovirus in thai blood donors by monoclonal staining of blood leukocytes. | four hundred and forty-one blood and serum samples were collected during august to october 1998 from the blood donors at the blood bank of rajvithi hospital, bangkok, thailand. their ages were varied between 18-55 years. all specimens were tested by immunostaining and elisa methods. forty-seven specimens (10.66%) gave positive results by immunostaining. among these, 20 cases were seropositive and 27 cases were seronegative. the age group between 41-50 years had a high percentage of cmv infection ... | 2001 | 11485078 |
| prevalence of cytomegalovirus, human herpesvirus-6, and epstein-barr virus in periodontitis patients and healthy subjects in the thai population. | fifty periodontitis patients and 30 healthy patients with oral cavities were selected from the faculty of dentistry, mahidol university, bangkok, thailand, from march 2001 to november 2002. their ages varied between 15 and 70 years. among the periodontitis patients, specimens were collected from both disease and healthy sites. all samples were evaluated for the presence of cmv, hhv-6, and ebv-1 by nested pcr. among the periodontitis patients, cmv was found in 34%, of which 8% were at the disease ... | 2004 | 15689080 |
| prevalence of human cytomegalovirus (hcmv) gb genotypes in thai patients. | human cytomegalovirus (hcmv) infection can cause asymptomatic to symptomic diseases leading to morbidity and mortality especially in immunocompromized patients. one factor of the difference in clinical outcome is the distinction of hcmv strain. as hcmv glycoprotein (g)b plays an important role in viral entry and neutralizing antibody induction, hcmv gb genotypes were determined in 161 clinical specimens containing hcmv-dna obtained from patients at king chulalongkorn memorial hospital, bangkok, ... | 2007 | 18041299 |
| Central nervous system infections in HIV-infected patients hospitalized at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. | Central nervous system (CNS) infections are among one of the most common complications in HIV-infected patients. The present study aimed to determine the etiologies, clinical features, treatment, and outcomes of all CNS infections in HIV-infected patients. | 2011 | 21675443 |