introduction melioidosis is a rapidly fatal infectious disease caused by burkholderia pseudomallei, an agent of potential biothreat, endemic in several parts of india. most melioidosis-induced infected aneurysms are located in the abdominal or thoracic aorta. case presentation we reported two unusual cases of melioidosis resulting in pseudoaneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta. in both case...

background: wound infection has become a major medical problem in recent years. this is usually caused by gram-positive bacteria, especially staphylococcus aureus. since antimicrobial resistance to current drugs has critically been developed in these causative microorganisms, substitution medicine has become one of the main interests within  researchers. objectives: the aim of this study was to...

avian influenza (ai) is a highly contagious disease in poultry and outbreaks can have dramatic economic and health implications. for effective disease surveillance, rapid and sensitive assays are needed to detect antibodies against ai virus (aiv) proteins. in order to support eradication efforts of avian influenza (ai) infections in poultry, the implementation of “diva” vaccination strategies, ...

aids (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), a result of human hiv (human immunodeficinency virus) infection, is one of the most troublesome world's health problems. extensive researches to find effective drugs for its treatment are running fast in huge capacities. imod (immuno-modulator drug) is the name of an herbal drug that has modulatory effects of immune system. as a goal of this research,...

Wolbachia is a cytoplasmically inherited alpha-proteobacterium found in a wide range of host arthropod and nematode taxa. Wolbachia infection in Drosophila is closely associated with the expression of a unique form of post-fertilization lethality termed cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). This form of incompatibility is only expressed by infected males suggesting that Wolbachia exerts its effect ...

We report a case of mycotic abdominal aortic aneurysm where the use of hybrid imaging with gallium scan demonstrated increased uptake in the infected aneurysm and aided in differentiating physiological uptake in the bowel from pathological uptake.

Horse bite infections are very rarely reported in the medical literature. Here we present a case of a severe facial infection in a 2-year-old boy after a horse bite, from which Serratia rubidaea and Enterobacter cloacae were isolated. Some pieces of grass were found inside the wound and were removed before performing a surgical toilet. The presence of these two gram-negative bacteria associated...

In this study, CD-1 female mice, deprived of the submaxillary salivary glands, were infected with S. mansoni and their behavior was observed 15 weeks after infection, when the eggs of the parasite are present in the brain. Sialectomized infected mice showed changes in exploratory activity, sniffing, and wall-rearing in the open-field and in the black/white box, but no differences in pain sensit...

background and objectives: pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (pjp) is a chronic fungal infection that caused by p. ji- rovecii . disease is more prevalent among the hiv-infected patients. the colonization of pneumocystis in human respiratory system is associated with the airway inflammation and obstruction. the current study was conducted to identify the preva- lence of p. jirovecii among the pa...

background: the differentiation of infected diabetic foot ulcers (idfu) from non infected diabetic foot ulcers (nidfu) is a challenging issue for clinicians. objectives: recently, procalcitonin (pct) was introduced as a remarkable inflammatory marker. we aimed to evaluate the accuracy of pct in comparison to other inflammatory markers for distinguishing idfu from nidfu. conclusions: these resul...