results no borrelia dna was detected by pcr in skin lesions of patients with morphea. patients and methods sixty six patients with morphea were prospectively included in the present study. for each patient, formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue blocks of skin lesion biopsies were examined for borrelia spp. dna using pcr. objectives we aimed to find the frequency of borrelia in morphea lesion...

conclusions this study suggests that the vaca pcr can be very useful in diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of patients with gastritis and pud. the pcr assay and clo test can complement and confirm each other in identification and eradication of cancer-related strains of h. pylori. the exclusion of patients with suspected achlorhydria from the study is likely a reason for the lack of false posi...

streptococcus agalactiae is acommensalorganism, but it may cause infection in susceptible hosts. the aim of this study was to evaluate pcr assay compared with conventional culture method for direct detection of streptococcus agalactiae . total of 203 paired low vaginal swabs were collected from women at 35-37 weeks of pregnancy from june 2013 through february 2014 for detection of streptococcus...

background :polymerase chain reaction (pcr) assay has widely used for the detection of tuberculosis (tb). this study tried to compare in-house pcr with some well-known commercial pcr kits for detection of tb agent. methods : clinical samples obtained from 620 tb suspected patients were analyzed for the diagnosis of mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (mtc) by in-house pcr. all samples were obtai...

background toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan toxoplasma gondii. this parasite infects most of warm-blooded animals, including birds. turkeys are one of these animals which might be infected by this parasite. little is known about the prevalence of t. gondii in turkeys in iran. objectives the current study aimed to evaluate the rate of toxoplasma infection in turkeys i...

background: colorectal tumor is one of the main causes of death in our country. the aim of the present study was to determine the clinicopathological aspects of tumor and the presence of hepatic micrometastasis in patients with colorectal cancer (crc). materials and methods: forty two patients with crc were evaluated in the study surgical treatment was performed and liver biopsy was taken for t...

b ackground : one of the main mechanisms of resistance to carbapenems is potential of klebsiella pneumoniae to produce k . pneumoniae carbapenemase (kpc). kpc is an important type of carbapenemase, which can hydrolyze carbapenems and other beta-lactam antibiotics. modified hodge test (mht) and  use  of  boronic  acid  as  a  kpc  inhibitor  are  two  types  of  phenotypic methods, which are use...

conclusions: in neonates and infants with primary diagnosis of sepsis, hsv infection should be considered especially if the clinical condition does not improve after 48 hours of antibiotic therapy, and sepsis still exists with elevated liver enzymes. results: among 150 neonates and infants younger than 3 months old with sepsis, the pcr results for detecting the hsv dna, were positive in 6 sampl...

conclusions findings of this study showed that integron can have a limited frequency in s. aureus isolated from clinical sample in tehran. results among the 200 samples, 1% of the strains (two isolates) contained the class 1 integron gene. the results of this study showed that the highest frequency of the obtained samples belonged to males and the isolates occurred mostly in individuals aged 51...