The dog is an animal that everyone knows. Due to the fact that dog can be well trained and friendly, many people have dogs in their homes as pets. Dogs can have many diseases, including canine influenza, which is considered to be an important new infection for dogs.7 A variety of pathogens, including canine parainfluenza virus, canine adenovirus and Bordetella bronchiseptica, as well as mycopla...

BACKGROUND Among the eight known human herpes viruses, Epstein- Barr virus (EBV) is considered to be sexually transmissible. This study was conducted to evaluate the seroepidemiology of this infection in married and unmarried Iranian couples. METHODS In this comparative observational and cross-sectional study, 160 men and women were divided into married and unmarried groups. Serum IgG and IgM...

To assess the stability of polyomavirus antibodies in serial samples over time and the incidence and age-specific prevalence of polyomavirus infections, we established enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) using purified yeast-expressed virus-like particles (VLPs) containing the VP1 major capsid proteins of JC virus (JCV) and the AS and SB strains of BK virus (BKV). A random subsample of 150 Finnish women...

background: infection with helicobacter pylori might be related to chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer and gastric adenocarcinoma. given the high prevalence of helicobacter infection in our region, this study was designed to determine the age trend of helicobacter pylori contamination in golestan province in 2008. materials andmethods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on 1028 ...

on the continuation of sorting the puzzle of the situation of hydatid disease in iran and considering that so far no survey was conducted in this context in arak city, markazi province central iran, the present study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of human hydatidosis using agb-elisa test.totally 578 serum samples randomly were collected from patients referred to hospitals and di...