objective: it is believed that monocyte isolation methods and maturation factors affect the phenotypic and functional characteristics of resultant dendritic cells (dc). in the present study, we compared two monocyte isolation methods, including plastic adherence-dendritic cells (adh-dc) and magnetic activated cell sorting- dendritic cells (macs-dc), and their effects on phagocytic activity of d...

background brucellosis is a zoonotic disease that is endemic in iran. appropriate and rapid diagnosis has a vital role in public health improvement. low isolation rate of the organism has reported frequently in various reports. the present study was conducted to determine the isolation rate of organism in culture from collected specimens of hospitalized patients who were not under antibiotic th...

molecular isolation of biodegradable mycobacteria from water supplies of iranian hospitals background and objectives: some microorganisms, mainly members of two genera including pseudomonas and mycobacterium , were found to be capable of transforming and degrading of polluting agents. we herein report the isolation of a few mycobacteria with the ability to biodegrade organic and inorganic compo...

Some new methods for the isolation of Legionella pneumophila are described which have been successful in recovering this organism from 6/10 patients with clinical evidence of Legionnaires' disease. The increased sensitivity of these methods combined with speedier isolation of the organisms than has hitherto been possible will hopefully lead to eventual isolation of this organism as a routine pr...