Objective: Preventing communicable diseases in the armed forces (AF) of a country is considered as a national interest and has a great importance. There are limited data on the efficacy of vaccination of the navy personnel. This study was designed to evaluate both the safety and the immunogenicity of a recombinant hepatitis B (HB) vaccine made by Pasteur Institute of Iran (IPI-rHB), in this tar...

Staphylococcus sp. strain BP/SU1, capable of degrading the biopolymer and utilize it as a source of carbon and energy, was isolated from activated sludge using METABOLIX (MBX D411G). It was found that this strain was capable of accumulating poly(3-hydroxybutyric acid) P(3-HB), as granule poly (3-hydroxybutyric acid), p(3-HB), inclusion bodies when grown under suitable nutrient conditions. These...

HB-GAM (heparin binding growth-associated molecule; pleiotrophin) is a secretory, extracellular matrix-associated protein that is strongly expressed in developing nervous tissues and belongs to a novel family of differentiation/growth factors. It promotes axonal growth from perinatal rat brain neurons and is suggested to be mitogenic for some cell types and to display cell-transforming activity...

BACKGROUND Data on hepatitis B (HB) infection prevalence among children and adolescents in Germany are scarce. We estimated seroprevalence of HB infection and assessed determinants for HB infection among children and adolescents in Germany from a representative population sample. METHODS From 2003 to 2006, the Robert Koch Institute conducted a nationwide cross-sectional Health Interview and E...

background recommendations to immunize healthcare workers (hcws) against hepatitis b are well known. however, a proportion of individuals do not respond to the primary standard three-dose hb vaccination schedule. conclusions both the single- and double-dose hb vaccines were adequately immunogenic, and the double-dose hb vaccine was not significantly more immunogenic than the single-dose vaccine...

BACKGROUND Neonatal immunization with hepatitis B (HB) vaccine induces protective levels of antibody (anti-HBs > or =10 IU/L) in a majority of vaccines. However, the duration of protection after HB vaccination in infants is unknown. A smaller proportion of children vaccinated beginning at birth with three doses of HB vaccine were found to have protective titers 5-10 years after initial vaccinat...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of occult HBV infection (OBI) among children and to characterize virology of occult HBV, we conducted an epidemiological survey. METHODS 186 HB-vaccinated infants born to HBsAg-positive mothers were included in the study. Serological tests for HBV markers were performed using commercial ELISA kits. Real-time quantitative PCR and nested PCR were used to ...

BACKGROUND To identify the predictive factors for malignancies using basic clinical and laboratory information in children presenting with musculoskeletal pain and eventually diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) or malignancy. METHODS A retrospective case-control chart review research examining laboratory data from patients referred for musculoskeletal pain in 2001-2010 and diag...

Hemoglobin (Hb) is a physiological oxygen‐transport metalloprotein present in the red blood cells. With in‐depth study, many functions of Hb are developed, and kinds Hb‐related biomaterials applied for biomedical therapeutics past decades. Herein, recent advances their applications, including clinical progress Hb‐based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) as substitutes, applications field tumor therapy, wo...

in the present study, we investigated the effect of a new anticancer pd(ii) complex, 1,10-phenanthroline-n-butyl dithiocarbamato pd(ii) nitrate, on the heme releasing from human hemoglobin (hb) as well as alterations in the structure and function of hb using different spectroscopic methods of uv-vis, fluorescence and circular dichroism (cd)at two temperatures of 25 and 37 °c. fluorescence data ...