Background and Objectives: Health care workers are under constant exposure to the risk of ooccupational blood-borne infection, which most of the time can be avoided by observing standard precautions. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of health care workers of a sample tertiary care hospital towards occupational exposure to blood-borne pat...

Ticks may transmit pathogens to ruminants worldwide, creating diseases such as anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis and theileriosis. In Europe, the most important tick vector is Ixodes ricinus and the most widespread tick-borne infection in animals is Anaplasma phagocytophilum. This infection causes tick-borne fever (TBF) in ruminants, a disease which may not only cause suboptimal growth, bu...

BACKGROUND Tick borne encephalitis is the most frequent vector-transmitted infectious disease of the central nervous system in Europe and Asia. The disease caused by European subtype of tick borne encephalitis virus has typically a biphasic clinical course with the second phase presenting as meningitis, meningoencephalitis, or meningoencephalomyelitis. Cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis is conside...

conclusions the diagnostics and management of infections with hepatotropic viruses, particularly hbv, are neglected in hemophilic patients. all patients with coagulation disorders and a history of exposure to non-inactivated blood products should be screened for blood-borne infections. the prevalence of other potentially blood-borne viral infections exhibited a pattern similar to that observed ...

background: intestinal protozoa transmitted by food are the most common opportunistic parasites among the hiv+/aids patients. as, there is no report about prevalence of food-borne intestinal parasites in such patients in yazd, so this study was performed to determine the prevalence of intestinal protozoa in the hiv+/aids patients in comparison with hiv- individuals. methods: a case-control stud...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to identify the mechanisms of immune and cytokine regulation in different clinical forms of Ixodes tick-borne borreliosis. METHODS The clinical observations performed on 581 patients with erythemic (113 patients), non-eritemic (242 patients) forms of Ixodes tick- borne borreliosis and Borrelia co-infection tick-borne encephalitis (226 patients) in the manifestation of t...