Background: SARS-COV-2 pandemic is a serious health problem all over the world including Egypt, thus realizing predictive factors and disease’s characteristics an essential issue.Objectives: To evaluate of laboratory-confirmed cases SARS-CoV-2 infection in Fayoum governorate, to determine disease severity.Methods: 140 patients confirmed with from were collected this descriptive multicenter stud...

Lymphocyte transformation and production of lymphocyte-derived chemotactic factor in response to herpes simplex virus antigen were studied in 15 patients with initial genital herpes and 10 controls. The patients underwent frequent genital examinations, viral cultures, and weekly immunological studies for a period of 11 weeks. The production of lymphocyte-derived chemotactic factor was maximal i...

Purpose: This study aimed to determine the correlation between various clinical results, including recurrence in patients with breast cancer, and preoperative blood composition ratio postoperative pathological results.Methods: A total of 444 who underwent surgery were included, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte (PLR), monocyte-to-lymphocyte (MLR), results classified into ca...

PurposeAllosensitization is associated with post-transplant complications in heart transplant (HT) recipients. Lymphocyte-depleting induction may mitigate these risks, but efficacy data conflicting.MethodsThis single center, retrospective cohort study compared highly sensitized HT recipients (cPRA ≥50%) receiving lymphocyte-depleting vs. no from 2015-2021. The primary outcome was a composite of...

background: t-2 mycotoxin belongs to the trichothecene family and has damaging effects on the immune system. objective: to investigate the toxic effect of t-2 toxin on the percentage of peripheral blood b lymphocytes and the potential protective role of selenium and vitamin e. method: frequencies of b lymphocytes (cd19+ ) were analyzed after injection of sublethal doses of t-2 toxin into balb/c...