In 1950s the Government of India under National Malaria Eradication Programme (NMEP) now National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, launched massive insecticidal spraying with DDT for malaria vector control and kala-azar came to a halt in Assam as a collateral benefit of malaria eradication programme. As a result, there were no further reports of kala-azar from the northeastern region exc...

In the last decades researchers had focused on developing a vaccine against tick based on protective antigen. Recombinant vaccines based on concealed antigen from Boophilus microplus have been developed in Australia and Cuba by the name of TICKGARD and GAVAC (De La Fuente and Kocan, 2006). Further studies on this antigen have shown some extent of protection against other species (De Vos et al.,...

Abstract: Dogs are the main reservoirs in domestic transmission cycle of visceral leishmaniasis, and diagnosis is essential for effectiveness control measures recommended by Brazilian Ministry Health. We assessed diagnostic performance ELISA-Vetlisa/BIOCLIN prototype with serum samples from 200 dogs, triplicate, including symptomatic, oligosymptomatic, asymptomatic, healthy originated two disti...

Background: Cystic echinococcosis (CE), as a chronic parasitic disease, is a major health problem in many countries. The performance of the currently available serodiagnostic tests for the diagnosis of CE is unsatisfactory. Objective: The current study aimed at sub-cloning a gene, encoding the B8/1 subunit of antigen B (AgB) from Echinococcus granulosus, using gene optimization for the immunodi...

Background: The strong association of Behcet’s disease with HLA-B5 antigen has been observed in several ethnic groups from Middle East to Far East. Objective: To evaluate the frequency and association of HLA-B5 and also likelihood ratio of involvement in Behcet’s disease in a group of Iranian patients. Patients and Methods: HLA-B5 antigen typing was performed by serologic method in 56 patients ...

to study the immunohistochemical pattern of cd 117, glial fibrillary acidic protein (gfap), smooth muscle actin (sma) and cd 43 in pleomorphic adenoma (pa), adenoid cystic carcinoma (adcc) and polymorphous low grade adenocarcinoma (plga) of minor salivary glands.twenty cases of pa, 20 cases of adcc and 10 cases of plga were retrieved from record files along with their paraffin blocks at armed f...