This report described Sarcocystis-like merozoites in peripheral blood smear of a woman with mild fever, rigor and musculoskeletal pain. Extracellular organisms with a pale blue cytoplasm and one or two nuclei were seen in her blood smear stained with Giemsa. Sarcocystis-like can be considered as a possible cause of some idiopathic febrile diseases.

Acute stressors (lasting minutes) were associated with potentially adaptive up regulation of some parameters of natural immunity and down regulation of some functions of specific immunity. Brief naturalistic stressors (such as exams) tended to suppress cellular immunity while preserving humoral immunity. Chronic stressors were associated with suppression of both cellular and humoral measures. V...

Avian Influenza subtype H5N1 (AI-H5N1) is a malignant virus that very detrimental to laying chickens because it highly contagious and mutates easily. Prevention of AI-H5N1 disease in carried out by vaccination, therefore maintain the quality vaccine, continuous research needed. This study aims determine potential vaccine isolates from Bali as measured based on cellular immune response total dif...

BACKGROUND There is great interest in reducing the number of automated complete blood counts requiring manual blood smear reviews without sacrificing the quality of patient care. This study was aimed at evaluating and establishing appropriate screening criteria for manual blood smear reviews to improve the performance in a hematology laboratory. METHOD A total of 1977 consecutive samples from...

This study was carried out on the vaginal epithelium of eight Awassi ewes during estrus and luteal phases in order to evaluate the histological effect of vitamin A on the vaginal epithelium, vaginal smears were taken and stained by methylene blue. Light microscope was used in examination of slides. The present result revealed that vitamin A stimulated the process of keratinization which in turn...

BACKGROUND Modern automated haematology instruments are capable of performing leukocyte differentials faster, cheaper and with a higher precision than the traditional 100-cell manual differential count. Thus, in human laboratories, criteria are defined for performing a manual review of the blood smear resulting in a marked reduction of manual differential counts. While common in human laborator...

background: studies on efficacy of various vaccines that prevent or reduce the primary and recurrent hsv-1 infection have demonstrated the importance of cellular immunity for protection against the infection. we previously used dna vaccination to induce cellular immunity against hsv-1 infection in mice. objective: the aim of our study was to evaluate the effect of light, a member of tnf super f...

the aim of the present study was to determine the effects of different levels of lysine amino acid on immunity and some blood biochemical parameters of broiler breeder hens. the treatments were consisted of 6 levels of lysine (0.50, 0.57, 0.64, 0.71, 0.78 and 0.85%) and were used in a completely randomized design with 4 replicates and 8 hens in each pen from 52 to 64 weeks of their rearing peri...