background: tuberculous meningitis (tbm) is a severe form of extra pulmonary tuberculosis with high mortality and morbidity rate in all age group patients specific in adults and children. the incidence and prevalence are not exactly known in iran. in this study, we tried to evaluate the role of rapid diagnosis and to find out the highest risk group patients.  methods:totally, 1783-suspected pa...

Genital organ disorders are important cause of infertility and sterilitiy. Many studies were performed on these disorders in many countries in the world [1, 2, 6, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 23]. In some studies about investigations of reproductive tract disorders in cows, atrophic and hypoplastic ovary, follicular cyst, luteal cyst, cystic corpora lutea, oophoritis and ovarian neoplasms have been repo...

tuberculosis (tb) has become a rare disease in the developed countries but it is still a seriousproblem in developing countries. incidence of tuberculous osteomyelitis of the jaw bones is verylow. this rare incidence is the primary reason that this lesion gets mis‑diagnosed many times. herewe report the diagnosis, treatment and follow‑up of a case, which is a classical presentation oftuberculou...

Day 3 thymectomy (D3Tx) leads to a paucity of CD4(+)CD25(+) suppressor T cells, a loss of peripheral tolerance, and the development of organ-specific autoimmune disease in adult mice. Importantly, D3Tx does not lead to autoimmune disease in all mouse strains, indicating that this process is genetically controlled. Previously, we reported linkage of D3Tx-induced autoimmune ovarian dysgenesis (AO...

Tuberculous liver abscesses are rare. Paradoxical response in tuberculosis is common and occurred between 2 weeks and 12 weeks after anti-tuberculous medication. We report here a case of tuberculous liver abscess that developed in a paradoxical response during chemotherapy for tuberculous peritonitis in a 23-year-old male. He was hospitalized, complaining of ascites, epigastric pain. He was dia...