The serodiagnosis of hydatid disease is a valuable instrument for clinical diagnosis and epidemiological surveillance of high-risk populations. In the past decade a wealth of reports on the diagnostic performance of numerous antigens have been produced. However, their diagnostic value has been estimated under different conditions, using different serum collection, therefore precluding their dir...

DESCRIPTION A 55-year-old man with a history of hypertension was admitted with complaints of progressive breathlessness of 2 months duration. General physical examination was remarkable for an elevated jugular venous pressure and bilateral pedal oedema. His ECG showed normal axis, left ventricular hypertrophy by voltage criteria and associated left atrial enlargement. Echocardiogram (ECHO) reve...

sheep is one of the important hosts for hydatidosis in iran as a hyperendemic region worldwide. in the present study, the efficacy of counter immuno-electerophoresis (cie) and pcr tests to detect sheep hydatid cyst infection was carried out. for this, soluble antigen was provided using hydatid cyst fluids (hcfs). blood sera were taken from a total number of 100 slaughtered sheep. cie analysis w...

An increasing number of cases of echinococcosis in Thailand have been imported, probably native infections and medical transfers. Serodiagnosis is one diagnostic choice for interpreting infections before a further step is done. Due to limited antigen, indirect ELISA has been used as a negative screening test for IgG-detection to rule out echinococcosis. Native hydatid cystic fluid (HCF) antigen...

hydatid cyst is an important and zoonotic infection caused by cystic stage of echinococcus granulosus. it is a major and economic problem in most areas of the world that livestock are kept such as iran. in this study, a total of 111 buffalo,s sera from center of buffalo sperm preparation (cbsp), orumia (west azarbayjan province, iran, 2003) were examined for the presence of hydatidosis by using...

background: hydatidosis is one of the most important helminthic diseases causing serious health and economic problems in many countries including iran. currently available diagnostic approaches for diagnosis of cystic echinococcosis (ce) are not satisfactory since they have not achieved a reasonable validity in diagnosis of ce. this study aimed to assess the perform¬ances of western blotting (w...

Echinococcus granulosus infrequently induces spinal hydatid cysts, and intradural hydatid cysts are extremely rare among these spinal hydatid cysts. We report a 30-year-old man with a history of progressive back pain caused by a previous back injury. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a spinal intradural cystic lesion. After surgical removal, histopathological diagnosis was a hydatid cyst. The...

Spinal hydatid cysts account for 1% of all cases of hydatid disease; primary intradural hydatid cysts are uncommon. We present a case of pathologically confirmed intradural spinal cyst hydatid in an otherwise healthy patient who showed no other evidence of systemic hydatid cyst disease. The patient presented with back pain, paraparesis, and weakness. An intradural extramedullary cystic lesion w...

BACKGROUND Regarding that accurate diagnosis of human hydatidosis still needs more investigations, the present study was conducted to clone, express, and evaluate the gene encoding AgB subunits (EgAgB16 kDa) from Echinococcus granulosus (Iranian G1 strain) and its evaluation by ELISA test. METHODS DNA was extracted from protoscoleces and was utilized by PCR for strain identification. Total RN...