constrictive pericarditis (cp) is an uncommon post inflammatory disorder. it is described as pericardial thickening, myocardial constriction, and impaired diastolic filling. the most common etiologies are idiopathy, mediastinal radiotherapy, and prior cardiac surgery. less common etiologies include viral infections, collagen vascular disorders, renal failure, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, and blun...

background : brucellosis is a major bacterial zoonosis of global importance with the causative organisms of gram-negative facultative intracellular pathogens. the aims of this study were to standardize two immunoelectrophoretic techniques, rocket and cross immunoelectrophoresis, and compare their results with other conventional serodiagnostic tests. methods : sera from 15 sheep, without any his...

oral cancer has emerged as a significant cause of global public health concern in both developing and developed nations. multiple socio-demographic and habit-related risk factors have been attributed to causing oral cancer. a diverse array of challenges exists in the global campaign to address the burden of oral cancer. such challenges have served as barriers to the early diagnosis and treatmen...

given limited health sources, how to make drgs (diagnosis related groups) more feasible is a big question in developing countries. this study contributes to the debate on how to bridge the pay-for-service and drgs during the transitional period of payment reform.from 2008 to 2012, 20740 patients with cirrhosis or duodenal ulcer disease were chosen as sample. using multiple linear regression ana...

background: sparganosis is caused by the invasion of spirometra sparganum into various tissues/organs. subcutaneous sparganosis can be diagnosed by biopsy , while visceral/cerebral sparganosis is not easy to be diagnosed. the diagnosis de-pends largely on the detection of specific anti-sparganum antibodies. t he specific-ity of the elisa could be increased by using s. mansoni sparganum excretor...

conclusions safe water supply and adequate sanitation and hygiene are the important routes for the control and prevention of cholera infection. results cholera is a rare disease in industrialized countries; but, is still common in other parts of the world, including the indian subcontinent, sub-saharan africa, and latin and central american countries (like haiti). symptoms begin with a sudden o...

food borne viral infections are recognized increasingly as human illneses. hepatitis a virus (hav) is an important pathogen which has been responsible for water and many food – borne outbreeks especially milk . in this study for approaching to best diagnosis method of hav in milk by elisa technique, various dilutions of hav antigen (1 ml/l, 10-3 ml/l, 10-6 ml/l, 10-9 ml/l) were added to uht mil...

background nucleic acid based detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis has the potential to improve the analysis of the tuberculosis epidemiology and patient care by increasing the specificity and sensitivity of diagnosis. patients and methods fifty suspected cases were screened for m. tuberculosis by using a new primer sequence and comparing its results with the primer (is6110) most widely used...

evidence acquisition an electronic search of available literature published was conducted in all peer-reviewed journal indexed in pubmed, scopus and google scholar. the literature search was done among articles related treatment of hepatitis c with daas in different patient groups with mass screening of the patients and cost benefit of new treatments as main key words. results there are major s...

a 6-year-old lactating holstein cow with a history of repeat breeding syndrome (failed to conceive afterthree artificial inseminations (ai) with fertile semen) was referred to the veterinary teaching hospital of theschool of veterinary medicine, shiraz university. according to the history, neither abnormal clinical signs,nor uterine discharge had been observed subsequent to ai. the cow had show...