Infections by measles virus and by HIV cause a state of immunodeficiency in the host. While measles virus leads to a transient immunodeficiency with depression of cellular mediated immunity, natural HIV infection leads to ...

Measles infections can cause significant morbidity and mortality in human and monkey populations. The endemicity of measles in human populations and viral circulation within populations of free-living monkeys may have ...

Little is known about long-lasting measles protective immunity when exposure to wild-type or vaccine measles virus precedes HIV infection. The results obtained suggest that measles immunity wanes and the lowest measles ...

Background — Despite the decline in the incidence of measles in Chile, epidemics continue to occur. In Chile, measles vaccine is administered at one year of age, therefore, we hypothesized that control of epidemic measles ...

We studied 19 patients with postinfectious encephalomyelitis complicating natural measles-virus infections, and our results support the hypothesis that this demyelinating disease has a pathogenesis similar to that of ...