| encephalitis in taiwan: a prospective hospital-based study. | to investigate encephalitis in taiwan, a multicenter study was conducted with patients who had acute severe neurological dysfunction and suspected encephalitis from may 2000 to december 2001. demographic data such as age, sex, and seasons were analyzed. polymerase chain reaction analyses were performed to determine the microbiologic diagnosis. the patients included 73 males and 54 females, with a peak age of 10-40 years old. microbiologic diagnoses in 86 (69%) of 124 cases involved herpes simple ... | 2003 | 14695429 |
| surveillance of respiratory viral infections among pediatric outpatients in northern taiwan. | viruses are a frequent cause of upper respiratory tract infections in children. like taiwan, there were few virological surveillance systems for respiratory viral infections among children in developing countries. | 2004 | 15072759 |
| association of viral factors with non-familial breast cancer in taiwan by comparison with non-cancerous, fibroadenoma, and thyroid tumor tissues. | to study the etiologic factors of non-familial breast cancer, the polymerase chain reaction (pcr) and southern hybridization were used to detect six viruses including human papillomavirus (hpv), cytomegalovirus (cmv), epstein-barr virus (ebv), herpes simplex virus (hsv)-1, hsv-2, and human herpesvirus (hhv)-8 dna in 69 patients with breast cancer and 60 specimens from non-cancerous or other individuals with thyroid tumors or fibroadenoma (non-breast cancer controls). two specimens from patients ... | 2005 | 15602723 |