This paper discusses extracorporeal removal of viral particles and their antigens from the blood as an auxiliary therapy. This hypothesis has not been reported before. In some chronic blood-borne viral infections, the virus remains systemic and persistent for extended periods of time, with adverse effects that weaken the immune system. Blood titers of virus and its toxins are proportional to th...

Pneumonia causes short- and long-term cognitive dysfunction in a high proportion of patients, although the mechanism(s) responsible for this effect are unknown. Here, we tested hypothesis that pneumonia-elicited cytotoxic amyloid tau variants: (1) present circulation during infection; (2) lead to impairment potentiation; and, (3) inhibit potentiation dependent upon tau. Cytotoxic species were r...

equine piroplasmosis is a tick-borne disease caused by intra-erythrocyte protozoa, theileria equi and babesia caballi. the present study aimed to detect piroplasm infection in horses in kurdestan province, iran, through molecular and microscopic approaches.n this study, 186 blood samples were randomly collected from horses of five regions of kurdestan province. the tbs-s/tbs-a primer set was us...

background thalassemia patients are at risk of blood borne viral infections because of repeated transfusion of blood products. objectives we aimed to determine the prevalence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection in these patients in zabol, iran. methods this study was conducted on 152 patients with thalassemia at the center of special diseases of zabol. demographic data were collected and serum...

background and objective: there is a concern on safety of human fresh frozen plasma (ffp) as it is a source of some medicinal products. the possibility of transmission of blood-borne are reported often due to emerging viruses. there are some pathogen reduction technologies (prt) to inactivate viruses. methylene blue (mb) based method is one of them. the aim of this study was to examine new desi...

background: exposure to blood-borne pathogens from needle-stick and sharp injuries continues to pose a significant risk to health care workers. these events are of concern because of the risk to transmit blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis b virus, hepatitis c virus, and the human immunodeficiency virus. objective: to benchmark different risk factors associated with needle-stick incidents am...

Background: Streptococcus agalactiae is a normal commensal of the human gastro-intestinal and female genital tracts. It causes serious disease in neonates pregnant women, as well non-pregnant adults. Food-borne outbreaks have also been described. A link between invasive Group B streptococcus (GBS) infection humans caused by S. aga...