Background Endometriosis has been widely implicated as one of the causes of chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea and infertility. The purpose of our study was to define the presumed correlation between visual and histologic diagnostic features of endometriosis based on the peritoneal findings identified in laparoscopy as a diagnostic trial with a standardized technique. So, all the specimens inclu...

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introduction iran is amongst endemic countries for fasciola hepatica. individuals can become infected by consumption of contaminated uncooked green vegetables. in the chronic cases, symptoms are fever, vague abdominal pain with eosinophilia. patients sometimes have symptoms and signs of hepatobiliary involvements such as cholangitis and cholecystitis. case presentation here we present a unique ...

materials and methods the expression of gp73 was investigated in 88 cancerous and self-control non-cancerous tissues using tissue microarrays with immunohisto- chemistry and was confirmed by western blotting. circulating gp73 levels were detected in the sera of 281 patients with liver diseases using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. results the levels of circulating gp73 expression in the hcc ...

enteritis due to campylobacter is the most common cause of acute bacterial diarrhea worldwide. in most cases, infection occurs as a result of consuming contaminated water or food, especially raw meat of fowls. campylobacters are saccharolytic and fastidious bacteria. these traits limit the number of available biochemical tests by which isolates may be differentiated. these limitations might, in...

background: studies have demonstrated that sickle cell trait can be found in an asymptomatic healthy carrier with normal complete blood count (cbc) and red blood cell (rbc) indices. according to iranian ministry of health bulletin instructions, prenuptial thalassemia screening program (tsp) primarily depends on rbc indices which are measured through a routine cbc. only when these levels are bel...

background: the clinical diagnosis of meningitis is crucial, particularly in children. the early diagnosis and empiric an­tibi­otic treatments have led to a reduction in morbidity and mortality rates. pcr and the enzymatic digestion of 16srdna frag­ment which is produced by universal primers led up fast and sensitive determination. the purpose of this study was to investi­gate a rapid method fo...

background: the aim was to compare three different methods (direct examination, culture and pcr meth­ods) for the diagnosis of acanthamoeba keratitis (ak) in corneal scrapes. methods: twenty eight corneal scrapes and contact lenses were collected from keratitis patients and re­ferred to the de­partment of medical parasitology and mycology, school of public health, tehran univer­sity of medical ...

background : this is the first work done on cryptosporidiosis among the children in taiz, yemen. methods : a number of 712 samples were collected from children of different ages (ranging from 1 month to 12 years) from dec 2006 to aug 2007. the collected samples were examined by sheather's sugar floatation and modified ziehl- neelsen stain as well as elisa methods. the test results were statisti...