in endemic regions visceral leishmaniasis is one of the most common opportunistic infections in hiv positive patients. simultaneous infection with leishmania and hiv has been reported in some countries but there's no such report from iran in medical literature. patient was a 27-year-old man admitted with chief complaints of intermittent abdominal pain, anorexia and vomiting since 6 months ago. ...

background: the diagnosis of toxocariasis heavily depends on immunological tests because the number of parasites is usually few in infected tissues, unless they migrate into an organ such as eye. in general, patients with ocular toxocariasis have serum anti- t canis antibody titres that are significantly lower than those with visceral toxocariasis. objective: to diagnose the asymptomatic toxoca...

visceral leishmaniasis (vl) remains an important public health problem in china. it is essential to elucidate the current epidemiological characteristics of vl for designing control policy.the data were obtained from china disease prevention and control information system from 2004 to 2012. characteristics by major variables, such as age, gender, season and geography were analyzed using spss13....

in this study, 16 eligible dogs were randomly divided in to 4 groups. group 1, 2, 3 and 4 received autoclaved leishmania infantum with bcg (ali+bcg), autoclaved leishmania major + bcg (alm + bcg), bcg alone and normal saline, respectively. dogs received the vaccines intradermally 3 times at 30 days intervals. all dogs were followed up 2 months intervals by leishmanin skin test and anti -leishma...

in order to determine the vector of visceral leishmaniasis in the endemic focus of fars province in southern iran, collection and dissection of sand- flies were carried out in the town of ghjr in firooz - abad district. a total of 270 sand- flies were dissected. they consisted of ph. alexandri, ph. sergenti ph. papatasi and ph. major. five out of 150 ph. major was found infected with promastigo...

background : adiponectin is an anti-inflammatory and antiatherogenic protein that has a protective effect against athero­sclero­sis and diabetes. it is exclusively secreted by adipose tissue. serum adiponectin levels are inversely associated with pa­rame­ters of overall adiposity including body mass index (bmi), fat mass, and percentage of body fat. methods : in a cross-sectional study of 76 wo...

background: visceral leishmaniasis (vl) is one of the most important parasitic diseases endemic in northwestern and southern areas of iran. the aim of the pre-sent study was to review the records of children hospitalized with vl in order to characterize the clinical features of children as well as laboratory finding in chil-dren medical center hospital, tehran, iran. methods: the medical record...