Seroprevalence of

05 Seroprevalence of three.p65

1Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kuwait, Kuwait. Received: 28/04/02; accepted: 01/12/02 ABSTRACT Diseases caused by dengue, sandfly fever and hanta viruses pose a major health risk in many countries. We determined the threat of these arboviral infections through a serological survey for antibodies using enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based tests. Hantav...

14 Seroprevalence of hepatitis.pmd

1Department of Social Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Guilan, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to Z.M. Amiri: [email protected]). Received: 23/09/03; accepted: 17/05/04 ABSTRACT We assessed the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and associated risk factors for all 298 haemodialysis patients in 7 dialysis units in Guilan province. Serum samples were scre...

Seroprevalence of Scrub Typhus

Thailand is a developing country that is still grappling with infectious diseases. Although modern medical and laboratory technology have been applied in the investigation and treatment of in­ fectious diseases, they are still prevalent. The varied ecology and topography of Thailand are appro­ priate for infective organisms, but there is a lack of medical apparatus and health personnel for cont...

Seroprevalence of Leptospiral infection in goats of Ahvaz

Seroprevalence of noroviruses in swine.

Noroviruses (NVs) are important human pathogens that cause acute gastroenteritis. Genetically related animal enteric NVs have also been described, but there is no evidence of interspecies transmission of NVs. In this study we characterized antibody prevalence among domestic pigs by using recombinant capsid antigens of two human NVs (Norwalk and Hawaii) and one swine NV (SW918) that is genetical...