A high percentage of pleural effusions remain unexplained despite an intensive diagnostic workup. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections occur worldwide and affect the majority of the population. The present study investigated the prevalence and clinical relevance of EBV in pleural effusions. A prospective study was performed in which 60 consecutive patients with pleural effusion were enrolled. Re...

INTRODUCTION Systemic Epstein-Barr virus-positive T-cell lymphoproliferative childhood disease is an extremely rare disorder and classically arises following primary acute or chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection. It is characterized by clonal proliferation of Epstein-Barr virus-infected T-cells with an activated cytotoxic phenotype. This disease has a rapid clinical course and is more fr...

Epstein-Barr virus association in nonproducer human lymphoblastoid cell lines can be demonstrated by the presence of the virus genome (nucleic acid hybridization studies) or by the detection of the virus-coded complement-fixing antigen (complement fixation and/or anti-complement immunofluorescent test). This paper describes an enzyme immunoassay for the detection of Epstein-Barr virus complemen...

Background: Environmental factors may play a role in colon cancer. In this view, several studies investigated tumor samples for the presence of various viral DNA with conflicting results. The purpose study is to investigate prevalence Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) patients colorectal carcinomas. Materials Methods: study, we collected 74 tumorous paraffin-embedded ti...

background and aims: ebv is a human herpesvirus that infects more than 90% of the world’s population. although, benign and asymptomatic for most cases, the infection can cause many nonmalignant and malignant disorders of lymphoid and epithelial origins. the objective of this study was detection of im prevalence in neyshabur, northeast iran from 2010-2014.   materials and methods: this cross-sec...

introduction: ebv is categorized as herpesviridans and by nature is a lymph crypto virus. studies have demonstrated that ebv will infect 80 to 90 percent of patients during the first year and there is a close relation between kidney malfunction and ebv infection. reactivation of the virus excites the immune system, and ultimately leads to rejection of kidney. the purpose of this study was to de...

background: breast cancer is the most common malignancy in females worldwide. several etiological factors including environmental factors have been recognized for breast cancer. epstein barr virus as a viral etiological factor has been proposed. so far, several studies have investigated the relationship between development of breast cancer and epstein barr virus, but few have been done in iran....

Epstein-Barr virus-related post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders are recognized as a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. To better define current understanding of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders in stem cell transplant patients, and to improve its diagnosis and management, a working group of the Sixth...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to detect the rate of Toxoplasma gondii infections and the coinfections in childbearing age women in Turkey accompanying using seroprevalence data from a multicenter hospital setting. METHODS Overal, 17751 childbearing age women through 16-45 years were included to the study between 2004 and 2010. The clinical samples of the patients were collected from 16 hospitals and...