In October 2016, a male New York resident aged 74 years developed fever, myalgia, nausea, and vomiting while traveling in Peru, 3 days after visiting the northern Amazon area. During the next 2 days, he experienced fever, abdominal pain, and watery diarrhea and was admitted to a hospital in Peru, where Entamoeba histolytica was detected in his stool. He was treated with intravenous fluids and a...

BACKGROUND Investigations were conducted by the authors to explore an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) reported in 2010 from Al-Mukalla city, the capital of Hadramout in Yemen. METHODS From 15-17 June 2010, the outbreak investigation period, specimens were obtained within 7 days after onset of illness of 18 acutely ill patients hospitalized with VHF and 15 household asymptomatic cont...

Human rhinoviruses (HRVs) are positive-stranded RNA viruses belonging to the Enterovirus genus in the family of Picornaviridae. Identification of the specific strain in HRV disease has been difficult because the traditional serological method is insensitive, labor intensive, and cumbersome. With the fast progress in molecular biological technique, more sensitive and faster molecular methods hav...

The use of reverse transcription (RT) PCR for relative quantitation of gene transcripts relies on the reproducibility of the individual RT, PCR and product measurement steps. Semi-competitive RT-PCR (RT-cPCR) uses an internal competitor template in the PCR step to improve quantitation. We have surveyed the reproducibility of RT, PCR, RT-cPCR and measurement, amplifying the glyceraldehyde-3-phos...

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to every corner of the globe with immense rapidity. The clinical presentation neonates due COVID19 is poorly understood. Aim and Objectives: study assessed profile COVID-19 from Special Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) a tertiary care hospital in eastern India. Materials Methods: Data record section was retrieved bed head tickets (BHT)...

SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2) is a novel coronavirus identified for the first time in Wuhan (China) 2019, responsible of current pandemic infection known as Coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19). Wide range clinical presentation COVD -19 has been observed, from asymptomatic carriers to ARDS. The common signs and symptoms include fever, fatigue, dry cough, dyspnoea; se...

Background: As rapid and precise detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in patient but there are limited data comparing sensitivity saliva nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) specimen for SARS-CoV-2 detection. Saliva is less invasive more convenient the patients. But NPS reference sampling method SARS-Cov-2.
 Objective: It was aimed to compare specificity compared ...

BACKGROUND Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) was first reported in China in 2011. Human-to-human transmission of the virus occurred occasionally in family clusters. However, pneumonia as an onset syndrome was not common in most SFTS cases. Our aim is to report a family cluster of SFTS with clinical manifestation of pneumonia in Shanghai. METHODS Epidemiologic investigations w...

ObjectiveTo screen pregnant women at risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection during delivery using reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test and serum immunoglobulin (Ig) testing.MethodBetween March 31 st August 2020, consecutive admitted for labor in a single hospital were screened SARS-CoV-2 with nasopharyngeal RT-PCR swab tests detec...