background: previous studies revealed that selectins play key roles in homing of immune cells to inflamed tissues and lymphatic organs. l-selectins are expressed on immune cells and interact with p and e selectins to homing to the tissues, hence, the polymorphisms within the gene of l-selectins may are associated with alteration in its expression. thus, the current cross-sectional analytical st...

background: visceral leishmaniasis (vl) as one of the most important human parasitic disease is endemic in some parts of iran. several cases of vl have been reported recently in the ilam province. the current study aimed to assess the pre-sent status of human vl in the region. methods: a random cluster sampling method was used to collect 456 serums samples from the children up to 12 years of ag...

O presente estudo discorre o perfil epidemiológico dos casos de leishmaniose visceral e tegumentar humana anos 2009 a 2019 no estado do Tocantins. Tendo que estas zoonoses são tipicamente endêmicas teve-se interesse entender sua disseminação analisando quadro geral Tocantins das suas regiões saúde. Para tal utilizou-se uma pesquisa aplicada, quantitativa caráter exploratório, descritivo corte t...

Pemphigus is an autoimmune dermatological condition that affects dogs and has in its clinical aspects a similarity to leishmaniasis, which differential diagnosis by means of histopathological examination necessary. The present study sought report case dog, male, mixed breed, 10 years old, diagnosed with pemphigus and, later, leishmaniosis. Upon diagnosis, the animal presented only lesion nasal ...

background: obesity and overweight, as the most common metabolic disorders, are great health problem during recent decades. obesity takes a role as independent or concordant risk factor for many diseases. so, it has a considerable share in burden of morbidities and mortalities. urbanization and its consequences in increasing of incomes and per capita energy uptake, besides the notable reduction...

toxocariasis or visceral larva migrans (vlm) is a parasitic infection resulting from the invasion of human visceral organs by nematode larvae of genus toxocara (dog ascaris). using gathered information of clinical manifestations, past history, biochemical and haematological tests, indirect fluorescence antibody test (ifa) and follow up of patients, totally 10 human cases (6 males and 4 females)...

background: to describe the epidemiological features of pediatric visceral leishmaniasis in southern iran. methods: this retrospective study was carried out using local hospital records of vl patients from 2001 through 2009. data such as age, gender, place of residence, clinical signs and symptoms, treatment, history of recurrence were recorded. the collected data were statistically analyzed us...