background: cryptosporidiosis is one of the most important parasitic infections in human and animals. this study was designed for survey on the prevalence of cryptosporidium infection in farms of ilam, west of iran, using parasitology method and genotyping by nested pcr-rflp. methods : fecal samples of 217 cattle were collected fresh and directly from the rectum of cattle. all of the samples we...

objective: fungal nail infection (onychomycosis) is a common disease in all communities consisting about 50 percent of nail disorders. yeasts are one of the important causative agents of onychomycosis. identification of the yeast species is important in the epidemiological and therapeutical point of views. the aim of the present study is the precise species identification of the pathogenic yeas...

Visceral leishmaniasis, associated with HIV/AIDS coinfection, is becoming a more aggressive disease, complicating an accurate prognosis. A 21-year-old HIV-positive female presenting with clinical features of visceral leishmaniasis was enrolled in this study. Bone marrow cytology, Novy-MacNeal-Nicolle culture and kDNA PCR of peripheral blood were all positive. Typing methods, multilocus enzyme e...

The roots and stems of several Salacia species have been used as traditional medicines, especially in Ayurvedic medical system for the treatment diabetes, rheumatism, gonorrhea, amenorrhea, skin diseases, etc. Due to reported evidence supporting Salacia's beneficial effects early-stage diabetes other lifestyle-related Salacia-based dietary supplements health foods gaining popularity Japan count...

Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis was performed on the internal transcribed spacer regions of 204 Sporothrix schenckii isolates and on one strain each of the related fungi, S. schenckii var. luriei, S. curviconia, S. inflata and Ceratocystis stenoceras. S. schenckii isolates, which have been collected from around the world, have already been typed according to their mitoc...