It has been speculated that human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles are associated with the outcome of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection although the data obtained from various populations have shown some inconsistencies. A total of 464 HBVinfected Korean individuals (80 spontaneously recovered [SR] and 384 chronically infected [CI]) were selected to investigate the association of HLA class II al...

BACKGROUND Fascioliasis, caused by Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica, is one of the most important plant and water borne disease in Iran. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of fascioliasis and intestinal helminthes in inhabitants of rural areas of Boyer-Ahmad in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in Southwest of Iran. METHODS Stool samples (1025) were collected from inhabitant of ...

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Performance comparison of phenotypic and molecular methods for detection and 1 differentiation of Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis 2 3 Suhail Ahmad*, Ziauddin Khan, Mohammad Asadzadeh, Ajmal Theyyathel, and Rachel Chandy 4 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, P. O. Box 24923, Kuwait 5 6 Running title: Detection of C. albicans and C. dubliniensis 7 8 9 *Co...

Email has become an essential communication tool in modern life, creating the need to manage the huge information generated. Email classification is a desirable feature in an email client to manage the email messages and categorize them into semantic groups. Statistical artificial intelligence and machine learning is a typical approach to solve such problem, driven by the success of such method...