background: discriminating latent tuberculosis infection (ltbi) from active tbi may be challenging. the objective of this study was to produce the recombinant l-alanine dehydrogenase (aladh) antigen and evaluate individuals with ltbi, those with active tbi, and uninfected individuals by enzyme-linked immunospot assay (elispot) in order to distinguish ltbi from active tbi. methods: this explorat...

a cross sectional study was carried out from october 2010 to march 2011 at andassa livestock research center, north-west ethiopia. the objective was to determine the prevalence of cattle flukes infection. faecal samples were collected from a total of 384 cattle, cross breed (n= 39) and fogera breed (n=345) of all age groups and sex. sedimentation technique was employed for the recovery of fluke...

www.thelancet.com Published online March 23, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00165-3 1 WHO’s goals for tuberculosis c ontrol after 2015 are to reduce the number of deaths by 95% and the number of new cases by 90% by 2035. These ambitious goals will require development of new approaches for preventing emergence of active tuberculosis from the vast pool of individuals with latent tub...

Sir, Exposure to Chlamydophila pneumoniae (Chlamydia pneumoniae, CP) is very common in the general population [1]. CP infection has been proposed as a risk factor of atherosclerosis as a chronic vascular inflammation [2], though current clinical data do not warrant the use of antibiotics for prevention or treatment of cardiovascular diseases [3]. Interestingly, it was recently reported that CP ...

Background: Toxoplasmosis is well known as an important infection in pregnant women. Although many serologic methods are available, diagnosis of early Toxoplasmosis may be extremely difficult. Objective: To detect the Toxoplasma IgG antibodies developed at the early stage of infection in pregnant women. Methods: 225 pregnant women, who were in the 2nd to 4th month of their pregnancy, enrolled i...

Hydatid disease is one of the most serious parasitic infection in humans and ruminants. In spite of this, no research had been conducted about the prevalence of this infection in the city of Arak, which is one of the centers for raising livestocks. In order to do this, medical files of  73 subjects, whom were diagnosed as having hydatid cyst ( between years 1983-1993) and had gone under operati...

Objective: To investigate the importance of endoscopic nodular gastritis associated With Helicobacter pylori infection in children. Methods: In this prospective study, 220 consecutive patients (age range 2 to 15 years, mean age 9. 02 ±3 .3 ), 118 of them males (53. 6%) underwent upper endoscopy during evaluation of chronic abdominal pain. The appearance of nodular gastritis was observed du...