A recent necropsy study has shown that 80% of patients with the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome were not diagnosed as such during life. Review of the clinical signs of these cases revealed that only 16% had the classical clinical triad and 19% had no documented clinical signs. The incidence of clinical signs in this and other retrospective pathological studies is very different from that of prospective clinical studies. This discrepancy may relate to "missed" clinical signs but the magnitude of the difference suggests that at least some cases of the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome may be the end result of repeated subclinical episodes of vitamin B 1 deficiency. In order to make the diagnosis, clinicians must maintain a high index of suspicion in the "at risk" group of patients, particularly alcoholics. Investigations of thiamine status may be helpful and if the diagnosis is suspected, parenteral thiamine should be given.
Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) is the prototype gamma-2 herpesvirus; it has significant homology to the human gammaherpesviruses Kaposi's sarcoma-associated virus and Epstein-Barr virus and the murine gammaherpesvirus murine herpesvirus 68. HVS causes a persistent asymptomatic infection in its natural host, the squirrel monkey. Both subgroups A and C possess the ability to immortalize common marmoset T lymphocytes to interleukin-2-independent proliferation. However, only subgroup C is capable of transforming human, rabbit, and rhesus monkey lymphocytes in vitro. In addition, HVS can stably transduce a variety of human cell lines where the virus persists as a nonintegrating circular episome. In this study, we have developed a system in which the HVS DNA is stably maintained as a nonintegrated circular episome in the human lung carcinoma cell line A549. Virus production can be reactivated using
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