BACKGROUND Treatment effectiveness of Helicobacter pylori varies regionally and is decreasing worldwide, principally as a result of antibiotic resistant bacterium. Tetracycline is generally included in second line H. pylori eradication regimens. In Brazil, a high level of tetracycline resistance (TetR) is mainly associated with AGA926-928TTC 16 S rDNA nucleotide substitutions. As H. pylori cult...

Acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase α (ACC-alpha) is considered as the key regulatory enzyme in fatty acid biosynthesis. ACC-alpha gene is located on Caprine chromosome 11 and is polymorphic in many goat breeds. In the current study, we aimed to find possible single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the exon 1 region of the ACC-alpha gene in Iranian Mahabadi goat breed. Genomic DNA was extracted fro...

toxoplasma gondii contain various immunogenic antigens. the most important toxoplasma antigens are somatic and excreted/secreted antigens. rhoptry proteins are known as excreted/secreted antigens. these antigens have been proposed as a vaccine candidate against toxoplasmosis. the main objective of the present work was cloning rhoptry protein1 (rop1) gene of toxoplasma gondii (rh) in a cloning v...

In the recent years, there is evidence of training a red type of zebrafish which differs from wild-type in body color. There is not any document how it reaches to the ornamental fish farms of Iran but at first, it was a doubt it belongs to a morphotype or genetic modification (GM). First of all, a set primer was designed to validate zebrafish species. Mitochondrial 16srDNA was selected and ampl...

Expressions of recombinant proteins for different applications are important objectives in molecular biotechnology; however, expression of some recombinant proteins is difficult. Several methods have been designed for expression of these proteins. The aim of this study was to construct a vector containing Mtb32C fragment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tuberculosis) as a fusion partner in orde...

A reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay was developed for the detection and identification of aquatic birnaviruses. The four sets of primers (PrA, PrB, PrC, and PrD) that we used are specific for regions of cDNA coded by genome segment A of aquatic birnaviruses. PrA identifies a large fragment (1,180 bp) within the pVP2-coding region, and PrB identifies a 524-bp fragmen...

conclusions findings of the study demonstrated that the t. gondii infection is common in wild boars in southwest iran and could represent a significant health risk for animals, hunters, and local residents who may consume wild boar meat. results anti-t. gondii antibodies were detected in sera of 4 out of the 25 (16%) wild boars. there was no gender or age-related differences in seroprevalence o...

a pair of degenerate primers, gmpf1 and gmpr1, was designed on the basis of alignment of previously reported grapevine fanleaf virus (gflv) movement protein (mp) nucleotide sequences from iran and other parts of the world. cdna was synthesized by the use of oligo d(t)18 from total rna extraction from each diseased grapevine leaf sample and subjected to polymerase chain reaction (pcr) with the d...