Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest disease known to humanity and among deadliest epidemics in top 10 causes death worldwide. The incidence tuberculosis India has dramatically increased contributing it Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Various diagnostic methods are available for detection tubercular bacilli. Only full proof criteria diagnosis TB demonstrate bacilli from affected tissue. T...

an adult female budgerigar (melopsittacus undulatus) presented with abdominal enlargement. the condition of the bird deteriorated after needle aspiration for cytological examination. the budgerigar was euthanatized and a complete necropsy was performed. microscopic sections were prepared and stained with hematoxylin and eosin, gram staining, periodic acid-schiff (pas) and acid-fast staining. es...

Background and Objective: BCG vaccination is used in many countries with a high prevalence of TB to prevent childhood tuberculosis meningitis and miliary disease. Local and systemic sideeffects are associated with BCG vaccine. The most critical reaction is disseminated BCG infection which occurs in mostl...

coccidian protozoa of cyclospora cayetanensis are obligate intracellular apicomplexan parasites that infect the mucosal epithelium of the small intestine of immunocompetent and immunocompromised persons. a 25- years old woman from around, tehran with complaint of faintness and fatigue with hiv positive/aids confirmed eight months ago was admitted in imam khomeini hospital, tehran, iran in 2014....

background and objective: bcg vaccination is used in many countries with a high prevalence of tb to prevent childhood tuberculosis meningitis and miliary disease. local and systemic sideeffects are associated with bcg vaccine. the most critical reaction is disseminated bcg infection which occurs in mostly immunodeficient patients. materials and methods: we performed 4 autopsies during 2001-2003...

dear editor,i read with interest article that published entitled *isolation and identification of bioactive compound producing rhodococcus spp. isolated from soil samples {ijmcm/5(1) (2015) 463-468}* [1]. some of the genus such as nocardia, gordonia, mycobacterium and rhodococcus are in actinomycete family and they are gram-positive and partially acid-fast. rhodococcus species usually stain gra...

A point-of-use 0.2-microm filter was evaluated for elimination of nontuberculosis mycobacteria in laboratory water to reduce false-positive acid-fast bacillus staining results. Use of the point-of-use filter can significantly reduce the false-positive rate to 1.2% compared to samples treated with tap water (10.7%) and deionized water (8.7%).