mycoplasma agalactiae (m. agalactiae) is one of the main causes of contagious agalactia, an infectious syndrome of sheep and goats in khuzestan province –southwest of iran that is characterized by mastitis and subsequent failure of milk production, arthritis, abortion and keratoconjunctivitis. this study was carried out to isolation and identification of m. agalactiae with culture and polymeras...

BACKGROUND There is growing evidence that Chlamydia pneumoniae may be involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, as several studies have demonstrated the presence of the organism in atherosclerotic lesions. C. pneumoniae infections, which are especially persistent infections, have been difficult to diagnose either by serological methods or isolation of the organism from the tissue. Nuclei...

Uniparental disomy (UPD) is the inheritance of both homologues of a chromosome from one parent. For most of the autosomes, there is no definitive clinical consequence of this abnormal inheritance. However, UPDs of chromosomes 6, 7, 11, 14, and 15 are associated with abnormal phenotypes owing to overexpression or underexpression of imprinted genes on those chromosomes. 2 Maternal UPD(14) (matUPD...

BACKGROUND Genital mycoplasmas are opportunistic bacteria that are associated with undesirable gynaecologic and reproductive events. Mycoplasmas are fastidious bacteria with increasing resistance to routine antimicrobials and often fail to grow on conventional culture methods. The commercial Mycofast Revolution assay permits the phenotypic detection and identification of genital mycoplasmas. An...

Introduction Magnetization saturation transfer (ST) is the most commonly used method in P MRS to non-invasively measure the kinetics of phosphoryl-exchange reactions and thus especially suitable for in vivo enzyme kinetic studies such as creatine kinase (CK) and ATPase. However, the conventional ST approach is greatly limited by the lengthy data acquisition time for achieving accurate quantific...

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by an obligatory intracellular mycobacteria Mycobacterium leprae, which presents tropism for Schwann cells and skin macrophages. Leprosy is a public health problem and early diagnosis is essential to avoid incapacities. The disease ́s clinical presentation varies from few to widespread lesions and its diagnosis continues to be a challenge due to the...