Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are severe adverse cutaneous reactions to drugs. We describe the case of a 19 year old patient with SJS/TEN overlap syndrome, who developed severe interstitial pneumonia after she had received antiepileptic drugs. A cytomegalovirus infection was diagnosed by Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) detection on Bronchoalveo...

Ulcerative colitis is a common disease affecting about 1 in 1000 of the population in the United Kingdom.' Recent therapeutic advances have improved our management of this condition, even though the aetiology remains unknown. Effective treatment of ulcerative colitis depends on making a precise diagnosis and determining the extent and severity of the disease. Crohn's disease, enteric infections...

Background Beta-thalassemia patients receive blood products from blood transfusion centers repeatedly. Blood transfusion can transmit Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Toxoplasma gondii. The aim of this study was serological evaluation of these two infectious agents in thalassemia patients. Materials and Methods In a cross-sectional study, the enzymelinked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) testing was pe...

  Background and Objective: Sinusitis is one of the most common hygienic problems and a large part of the budget has been allocated to its diagnosis and treatment yearly. In this study, the presence of cytomegalovirus in sinuses of patients, undergone operation for treatment, with or without sinusitis, was studied. Materials and Methods: This study was an applied and case-co...

The aim of this study was to detect the relationship between Toxoplasmosis, Cytomegalovirus infections and occurrence abortion. records 173 aborted women age less than twenty years fifty old attending hospital Samaraa general from October 2015 April 2016 were reviewed. Investigation by using VIDAS technique represented that T. Gondii antibodies showed in 54(31.2 %) ,while 23(13.3 infected with ...

despite a lot of research, the etiology and progression of breast cancer remain incompletely understood. recently, human cytomegalovirus (hcmv) was reported as a risk factor for breast cancer. the aim of this study was to know whether breast cancer could be caused by cytomegalovirus or not? in this experiment seventeen samples of razi/a mice with spontaneous breast cancer were being gathered fr...

background and objective: sinusitis is one of the most common hygienic problems and a large part of the budget has been allocated to its diagnosis and treatment yearly. in this study, the presence of cytomegalovirus in sinuses of patients, undergone operation for treatment, with or without sinusitis, was studied. materials and methods: this study was an applied and case-control study, which had...

Background and Objective: For nearly a century, it has been suspected that reproductive tract infections play an etiologic role in uterine leiomyoma. However, no epidemiologic study of leiomyoma has used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to compare uterine tissues from cases and non-cases, and to investigate associations between uterine leiomyoma and infections detected by PC...

to evaluate the correlation of cytomegalovirus (cmv) and coronary artery disease (cad), one-hundred patients with cad and the same number of healthy individuals as a control group were randomly selected and studied for anti-cmv using elisa method. ninety percent of patients and 77 percent of the control group were anti-cmv positive and statistical analysis showed a significant correlation betwe...