background: hepatitis e virus (hev) infection is a self-limiting viral infection that can lead to severe complications and death. in different regions the epidemiology of this infection varies. in this study we evaluated the seroepidemiology of hepatitis e infection in jahrom, a city in southern iran. methods: this was a cross-sectional descriptive study of serum samples from 477 subjects, incl...

background: congenital transmission, prenatal mortality and abortion, are major problems in most countries with high prevalence of toxoplasma gondi infection and study of seroepidemiology of this infection among the pregnant women, could provide applicable approaches to preventive measures. in order to determine the seroepidemiology of toxoplasma infection in the pregnant women, this study was ...

background: parvovirus b19 (b19) is the only member of the family parvoviridae associated with human infection. al­though there are some studies to estimate the immunity to parvovirus in various populations but there is no seroepidemiologi­cal sur­vey from iran until now thus the age-specific immunity to human parvovirus infection was esti­mated. methods:  a subset sample of 1500 study subjects...

newcastle disease is one of the most important diseases of poultry. it usually causes a great loss inpoultry industry and domestic village chickens. since domestic chickens in villages are free ranging for food,the chance of their contact with wild birds that may act as reservoirs is high. to determine the role ofdomestic chickens in the epizootiology of newcastle disease virus in villages of i...

seroepidemiologic studies in developing countries show a high rate of helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infections in children, in contrast to developed countries. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of h. pylori in children and teenagers in tabriz, northwest of iran. in this prospective study 44 children and teenagers were randomly selected to study serum igg against h. pylori u...

BACKGROUND Cytomegalovirus causes congenital infections all around the world. The seroepidemiology of cytomegalovirus infection in pregnant women in Mexico is largely unknown. We sought to determine the seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus infection in pregnant women in Durango City, Mexico; and to determine seroprevalence association with socio-demographic, clinical and behavioral characteristics...

seroepidemiology unit for providing the samples for this study. The antibody testing was carried out at HPA Porton Down and we thank Moya Burrage, Lorraine Ransley, Carol Powell, Janet Blake, Jenna Plank, and Annette Crowley-Luke from the immunoassay laboratory. We thank our colleagues at the National Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Meningitis, Netherlands, for allowing us to present their r...

background and aims: pertussis is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease. determination of the seroepidemiology of pertussis makes possible the evaluation of pertussis immunity in a population. in this study, we determined the seroprevalence of bordetella pertussis igg antibodies in different age groups in tehran, iran. materials and methods: overall, 1101 subjects between ages of 8 ...

objective: this study was conducted to evaluate the frequency of human hydatidosis in kurdestan province by elisa technique. materials and methods: in this study the sera of 1979 individuals were collected from different area (cities and villages) of kordestan province. the serum dilution of 1/400 was selected for elisa test. results:the results indicated that 1.12% of the individuals from k...