background: pemphigus is an autoimmune bullous disease and it is unclear what triggers and deteriorates it. the current study aimed to evaluate whether increasing the igg antibody titer represents a good indicator of the pemphigus recurrence. objectives: the current study aimed to evaluate whether increasing igg titer is an indicator of the expected recurrence. patients and methods: the current...

OBJECTIVE Intrathecal measles(M)- rubella(R)- and varicella zoster(Z)-antibody synthesis in German and Cuban multiple sclerosis (MS) patients are compared considering the different rubella epidemiology in the tropics. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-three Cuban MS patients with a representative age distribution and gender ratio like the group of 177 German MS patients were analysed for albumin, I...

measles, rubella, mumps, hepatitis b virus (hbv) and varicella zoster virus (vzv) cause infectious diseases that can be effectively prevented by vaccination. vaccination of medical students is important, because they are more likely to become exposed and infected by these viruses. a total of 180 students, consisting of 90 women and 90 men, were serologically screened for measles, rubella and mu...

In order to study and evaluate the indirect immunofluorescent test and the ratio of CD41ymphocytes to CD8 lymphocytes, 97 cases of positive candida cultures were selected from among 400 patients referring to the hospital and suspected of candidiasis. In this study 39% of the patients had an antibody titer less than 1: 160 No significant correlation was seen between canclidiasis and the resu...

To facilitate the diagnosis of recent rubella infection, rubella haemagglutination inhibiting antibody has been determined in four fractions obtained by Sephadex G-200 gel filtration of samples of serum. All the 21 samples collected at the convalescent stage of the disease had varying proportions of haemagglutination inhibiting antibody in fraction 1, representing the major portion of IgM antib...

rabies is acutely fatal encephalitis caused by a neurotropic virus. this virus belongs to the family ofrhabdoviridae and genus of lyssavirus. the virus is almost always transmitted to human through infectedmammalian saliva. rabies is inoculated to a wound by an infected animal bite. since infection is establishedin the cns, the outcome is almost always fatal. according to the outstanding role o...

PURPOSE To characterize the polyspecific intraocular antibody synthesis in aqueous humor of patients with chronic inflammatory diseases of the eye and to detect the causative antigen in Fuchs heterochromic cyclitis (FHC). DESIGN Retrospective case-control study. METHODS Intraocular antibody synthesis is detected in aqueous humor with the Antibody Index [AI] (improved Goldmann-Witmer Index) ...

Background: In Iran scince 1992, hepatitis B vaccination was a part of the national vaccination program. Hepatitis B vaccination is effective in the epidemiology of hepatitis B. The aim ofthis study was to evaluate the long – term persistence of immunity. Methods: This cross-sectional analytical study was conducted on children and adolescents aged between 6-18 years in Birjand, who recei...

A modified rubella virus plaque neutralization test for measuring rubella antibody was developed based on the potentiation of the virus-antibody complex by heterologous anti-immunoglobulin. The test is highly sensitive, yielding titers on the average 50 to 100 times higher than the haemagglutination inhibition test or the conventional plaque neutralization test. The sensitivity of this enhanced...