background:  aeromonas spp. can cause diarrhea and various infections in humans. access to rapid techniques with a high sensitivity and specificity is strongly needed for the identification of aeromonas species. the aim of this study was to evaluate two different methods including api 20e bacterial identification tests and the molecular detection using pcr primers specific for 16s-rrna and 23s-...

this report described sarcocystis-like merozoites in peripheral blood smear of a woman with mild fever, rigor and musculoskeletal pain. extracellular organisms with a pale blue cytoplasm and one or two nuclei were seen in her blood smear stained with giemsa. sarcocystis-like can be considered as a possible cause of some idiopathic febrile diseases.

hottentotta is one of the most widely distributed genera of the family buthidae, with species present throughout africa, the arabian peninsula, and in asia to pakistan and india. recently, kovarik (2007) revised genus of hottentotta in the world and reported 29 different species-group name in the genus of hottentotta. hottentotta is one of the six medical important scorpions of iran that distri...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence of Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia spp. in a public water-treatment system. Samples of raw and treated water were collected and concentrated using the membrane filtration technique. Direct Immunofluorescence Test was performed on the samples. DNA extraction using a commercial kit was performed and the DNA extracted was submitted to a ...

Factors implicated in the pathophysiology of ulcerative colitis (UC) are an abnormal immune response, defect in intestinal epithelial barrier function, and gut microbiota. Currently, it is unclear whether specific bacterial strains are responsible for the induction of intestinal inflammation, but increased bacterial tissue invasion has been described in affected UC patients. Further, a quantita...

The diel vertical migration (DVM) of the whole plankton community was investigated in the central and coastal Irish Sea. Generally, more than 60% of the plankton did not perform significant DVM. A correlation analysis of the weighted mean depths of different organisms and their potential predators suggested relationships between 2 groups: Oithona spp., copepod nauplii and fish larvae, and Calan...

Sweetpotato peptide (SPP) was prepared by enzyme digestion of sweetpotato protein from starch wastewater. Animal experiments assessed the effect of SPP on body weight, abdominal adipose tissue mass, serum lipids and adipocytokines. Body and liver weight and epididymal and mesenteric fat of mice fed a high-fat diet containing 0.5% or 5% SPP for 28 days were significantly lower than control mice....

OBJECTIVES The activity in vitro of terbinafine against 442 clinical isolates of several species of filamentous fungi was analysed. METHODS A broth microdilution test was carried out following the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards reference method, with modifications described previously. RESULTS The geometric mean (GM) of MICs of terbinafine for non-Aspergillus fumigatus...

Reports on the microbial degradation of bile-acid conjugates have been mainly limited to observations of hydrolytic cleavage yielding free bile acids. Clostridium spp., Enterococcus spp. (Norman & Grubb, 1955), Bacteroides spp., BiJdobacteria spp. (Drasar & Hill, 1966) and species of rat intestinal bacteria (Dickinson et a/., 1971) were all shown to deconjugate bile-acid conjugates under anaero...