conclusions in conclusion, the prevalence of hcv genotype 1 was 51.7%, which was lower than the rates reported in other studies in turkey, while the prevalence of hcv genotype 3 was 46%, which was remarkably higher than the reported turkish data. in addition, the prevalence rate for genotype 3 reported in the present study is the highest that has ever been reported in the literature. results th...

results phylogenetic analysis of the gene revealed that pakistani 1a hcv strains are in the start of third cluster and there is a difference between inter pakistani isolates at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. material and methods patient sera infected with hepatitis c virus, genotype 1a, were obtained from molecular diagnostics lab, cemb, university of the punjab lahore by using bd vacu...

conclusions findings of the present study showed that hcv genotype 3 was the predominant genotype followed by the subtypes 1a and 1b in yazd, central province of iran. in addition, there was no difference between hcv load and genotypes 1 and 3. hcv genotyping is recommended in other provinces of iran. objectives the main aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of hcv genotypes in yazd,...

conclusions we confirm that in amol city and surrounding areas, the prevalence of true hcv infection is 0.05%, which is lower than that previously reported from iran. results the mean age of participants was 42.70 ± 17.10 years. of these participants, 57.2% (n = 3483) were male. anti-hcv antibody was positive in 12 individuals from which five were riba positive. three of these subjects were pcr...

conclusions pcr was the most sensitive, accurate and rapid method for diagnosis of tb. it was concluded that, for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, pcr directly from sputum may be recommended in bangladesh, especially in suspected tuberculosis patients who remain negative by conventional methods. patients and methods a total of 150 clinically suspected pulmonary tb patients (male/female:...

results in 12 patients (37%), human papilloma virus was detected by pcr method. in addition, there was no difference in distribution of patients with respect to affliction with human papilloma virus between high-risk and low-risk groups. there was no relationship between clinical manifestation and type of papilloma virus. materials and methods this cross-sectional study was conducted on 32 pati...

background: discovery of short cell free fetal dna (cffdna) fragments in maternal plasma has created major changes in the field of prenatal diagnosis. the use of cffdna to set up noninvasive prenatal test is limited due to the low concentration of fetal dna in maternal plasma therefore, employing a high efficiency extraction method leads to more accurate results. the aim of this study was to ev...

background: group  b  streptococcus   (gbs)  is  one  of  the  most  important  cause  of  morbidity  and  mortality  among  newborns  especially  in  developing  countries.  it  has  been  shown  that  the  screening  approach  rather  than  the  identification  of  maternal  clinical  risk  factors  for  early-onset  neonatal  gbs  disease  is  more  effective  in  preventing  early-onset  gb...

background: escherichia coli is a commensal-pathogenic organism, which includes a wide range of strains. despite several advanced molecular-genomic technologies for detecting and identifying different strains of e. coli, enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus polymerase chain reaction (eric-pcr) technique is a quick, sharp and cost effective fingerprint method. the major purpose of the...

conclusions results showed that pif that is being consumed in iran is contaminated with this pathogen and can cause disease in infants; especially those hospitalized in neonatal intensive care units (nicus) and fed pif. the number of reported cases of cronobacter infections is very low, but nevertheless there has been a slight increase recently. while the reported cases worldwide are few, it ne...