Staphylococcus aureus is a major causative pathogen of clinical and subclinical mastitis of dairy domestic ruminants. This agent produces a variety of extracellular toxins and virulence factors including Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin-1 (TSST-1) which is the major cause of Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS). In this study 58 S. aureus isolates obtained from 9 dairy herds in East and West Azerbaijan provinc...

Key-words Disease name/synonyms Definition Differential diagnosis Etiology Clinical description Diagnostic methods Epidemiology Genetic counseling Antenatal diagnosis Management including treatment Unresolved questions References Abstract Bloom’s syndrome (BS) is a rare human autosomal recessive disorder belonging to a group of “chromosomal breakage syndromes”. BS is characterized by marked gen...

concurrence of interstitial nephritis and uveitis named tubulointestitioal nephritis and uveitis syndrome (tinu) are unusual and uncommon presentations of interstitial nephritis. this syndrome is considered after ruling out other differential diagnoses. a-38-year old man presented with acute renal failure and uveitis. the histologic findings of renal biopsy showed acute tubulointestitioal nephr...

In 1932 Harvey Cushing described a number of patients presenting a similar clinical picture which he had collected from the literature, and he added two more from his own records. The presence of minute adenomata of basophil cells in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland was demonstrated at autopsy on some of them and Cushing regarded these as the causative lesions and called the syndrome 'p...

Cytogenetic studies were performed on 150 cases of Down's syndrome (DS) in Iran. The standard trisomy 21 was found in 132 (88 % ) and translocation-trisomy 21 (+21) in 18 (12%) patients, i.e., t(21,21) in 1(0.63%) and mosaicism in 17(11.33%) cases. The comparison of the frequencies for mosaicism between different populations such as Denmark, Hungary, Egypt, Iraq, India, Australia and Iran ...

Chez une fillette de 8 ans, la decouverte d'une hyper-bilirubinemie indirecte, sans atteinte hepati­que, sans signe d'hemolyse. a conduit a une enquete farniliale.  Dans la famille paternelle, ii n 'existait aucun cas d'ictere, et le [aux de la bilirubinemie etait nJr­mal chez le pere et chez le grand-pere.  La bilirubinemie indirecte de la mere montrait une legere augmentation, celle d'un on...

Background and Aim: This study assessed the salivary calcium level, salivary flow rate, and dental problems of patients with Sjogren’s syndrome. Materials and Methods: This case-control study was conducted on 30 patients with Sjogren’s syndrome and 30 healthy controls. The salivary flow rate, salivary calcium level, and the decayed, missing, and filled surfaces (DMFS) index were recorded. ...

CLINICAL CASE Patient: A 28 year old man, Caucasian. Chief complain 3/2000: Redness and light sensitivity in both eyes. Past ocular history: Two year history of bilateral keratitis treated with topical steroids with initial improvement and subsequently become unresponsive. Past medical history: Idiopathic hearing loss since 1996, unresponsive to systemic cyclophosphamide and high doses of predn...