introduction : human cytomegalovirus (hcmv) is able to go into latency and is the most common cause of congenital infections in humans. its clinical manifestations range from asymptomatic forms to severe fetal damage, and in rare cases, fetal death due to abortion. this prospective cross-sectional study was designed to determine the seroprevalence of hcmv infection in pregnant women attending a...

conclusions findings of this study demonstrate no significant difference between levels of h. pylori specific antibodies of iga, igg, anti-caga and the presence of pcos disorders, and also indicate that serologic testing is a sensitive method for the detection of h. pylori antibodies. the high prevalence of h. pylori positive antibody levels in both pcos and non-pcos patients can be probably as...

helicobacter pylori (h.pylori) is the most common human infection in the world. this agent has a strong role in pathogenesis of chronic gastritis and peptic ulcers. therefore introducing of simple and cost effective and non invasive tests are important for diagnosis of h.pylori infections. in this study 215 patient suffering from different gastrointestinal disorders referred to gi endoscopy dep...

Fu/Fu.) When the posterior axial region is sufficiently defective, it fails to provide the normal inductive stimuli which regulate the development of the posterior gut and urinary ducts, and particularly the separation of the urogenital sinus from the rectum. This assumption is based not on embryological evidence but on the evident connection between abnormalities of the posterior spine and uro...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Cryptococcosis is a chronic infective condition affecting the central nervous system. Unless diagnosed early and specific treatment instituted it can be fatal. There is an urgent need for a rapid and specific diagnostic tool for better management of the patients. Conventional methods such as culture and India ink are specific but cumbersome and time consuming. Serological...

Leptospirosis is a common and underdiagnosed zoonosis. Two rapid assays for serological diagnosis of acute leptospirosis in diagnostic laboratories, the immunoglobulin M (IgM)-dipstick assay and the indirect hemagglutination assay (IHA), were evaluated and compared with standard assays. Sera were examined from 104 patients admitted to a hospital for investigation in a leptospirosis diagnostic p...

This case-control study was carried out to investigate whether eosinophilia is a common finding in parasitic diseases and to determine the prevalence of the parasitic diseases in definitive groups. Toxocariasis and fasciolosis were investigated in patients with eosinophilia, patients with non-eosinophilia, and healthy controls. All cases were analyzed for antibodies against Toxocara canis and F...

INTRODUCTION Serological tests' limitations in syphilis diagnosis as well as numerous test interpretations mean that patients with discordant serology results can present diagnostic and treatment challenges for clinicians. We analyzed three common diagnostic algorithms for detecting suspected syphilis in high-prevalence populations in Slovenia. METHODS The prospective study included a total o...

The aim of the study was to assess the usefulness of real-time PCR and serological methods as indicators of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) occurrence. Significantly higher level of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) viral load in serum and significantly lower titre of specific antibodies in PMWS-affected pigs indicated that combination of quantitative PCR and serological method...