diarrheal disease is one of the main causes of death in developing countries. this study was performed to the prevalence of bacterial causes of diarrhea in patients admitted to the military hospitals and imam khomeini medical center hospital. this cross-sectional study was conducted in a period of 9 months from june 2014 to february 2015, 435 non-duplicative diarrheal stool samples were collect...

ganglioneuroma is a very rare cause of chronic diarrhea in children. this benign tumor usually presents with diarrhea and failure to thrive. it is necessary for physicians to be familiar with this rare cause of chronic diarrhea. here we present and discuss such a case.

background: aeromonashydrophila (a. hydrophila) is an aquatic bacterium that can cause a spectrum of infectious diseases, including both gastrointestinal and extraintestinal infections. due to the high rate of diarrheal infections in pediatric patients in central iran, this study was designed to determine the frequency of a. hydrophila in diarrhea samples from children in this region. methods: ...

a rapid and sensitive reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr) and nested-pcr were used to detect bovine viral diarrhea virus 1 (bvdv-1) in bull semen. selected primers could amplify a part of the 5´utr of the bvdv genome. a 294 bp dna fragment was amplified and specificity of the results was confirmed by direct sequencing of the pcr product. prior to rna extraction, the seminal...

in the present study, interactions between lead exposure with nitric oxide precursor (l-arginine) or nitric oxide synthase (nos) inhibitor (l-name) on naloxone-induced jumping and diarrhea in morphine-dependent mice were examined. chronic lead acetate (0.05%) exposure altered naloxone-induced jumping and diarrhea in mice. jumping was decreased after 7 days and was unchanged 14 and 28 days after...