transplanted and hemodialysis patients are frequently affected by parasitic diseases such as cryptosporidiosis. cryptosporidium is a parasite causing self-limited diarrhea and enteritis in healthy individuals. the presence of cryptosporidium infection was studied in three groups including 87 renal transplant patients, 103 hemodialysis patients, and 60 healthy individuals as the control group. t...

definitive diagnosis of brucellosis is made by isolation of the causative agents, which is a timeconsumingprocedure. to evaluate the efficacy of dot-elisa for detecting brucellae in clinical samples, 94different specimens taken from animal origin were cultured on brucella selective culture media and colonieswere identified biochemically. the specimens were also examined after centrifugation by ...