This study was carried out to determine the prevalence and intensity of amphistomiasis in native cattleand mixed breed Holstein from Mazanderan province, in the north of Iran in association with sex, age, breedand season. During the 4 seasons of 2008, at meat inspection the rumen and reticulum of 132 native cattleand 104 mixed breed were examined by naked eye for amphistomiasis. All amphistomes...

IL-6 is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that has previously been associated with herpes simplex virus type 1 reactivation. To further investigate this relationship during acute infection, ocular HSV-1 infection was studied in transgenic mice homozygous or heterozygous expression of IL-6 by astrocytes in the central nervous system. The virus load in both the eye and trigeminal ganglia was significan...

OBJECTIVE To determine how often chlamydial conjunctivitis is accompanied by a genital chlamydial infection and if there is a correlation between the dominant hand and the eye first infected. METHODS We retrospectively studied the records of 65 patients with chlamydial conjunctivitis who were referred to the Outpatient Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) of the University Hospit...

morganella morganii is rarely isolated from nosocomial infections. however, postoperative infections due to morganella spp. were documented in literature and eye involvements of the infections usually result in severe sequels.  we present a severe case infection, which was caused by m. morganii subsp . morganii, firstly appearing as conjunctivitis and complicated by bacteremia. the infectious a...

Ocular parasitosis in human is more prevalent in geographical areas where environmental factors and poor sanitary conditions favor the parasitism between man and animals. Lesions in the eye can be due to damage directly caused by the infectious pathogen, indirect pathology caused by toxic products, or the immune response incited by infections or ectopic parasitism. The epidemiology of parasitic...

Adenoviruses are a common cause of viral eye disease in humans. Recently, new antiviral drugs have been developed, which possess promising anti-adenovirus activity. In order to test these drugs, an ocular model of adenovirus infection was developed in 10 Hollander rabbits following topical, intrastromal and subconjunctival inoculation with a standard laboratory serotype (Adenovirus type 5 from ...

COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH JOURNAL | VOLUME 30 | NUMBER 100 | 2017 Nearly a third of the very first issue of the Community Eye Health Journal was about blinding eye diseases in children. One article described an Indian study about improving mothers’ knowledge so that they could prevent eye conditions in their children. The other article also focused on the major causes of corneal scarring in children...

Abstract Coronavirus-19 infection caused a mysterious pandemic worldwide. Some people experienced flu-like symptoms, while others have died due to pulmonary complications. Besides droplet spread, other routes of started be suspected, such as through eye contact. During the first phase pandemic, symptoms were in focus, later signs and also published. Eyelid, anterior posterior segment neuro-opht...

Introduction: The Covid-19 pandemic and the increase in monkeypox (Mpox) infections that have been with us for past two years forced scientists doctors to intensify their efforts understand them. They mainly affect respiratory, circulatory immune systems cause skin lesions. can lead death from lung disease, so complications such as ophthalmic ones are not often described scientific studies, but...