introduction: cytomegalovirus (cytome-galovirus: cmv) infection is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in patients who are the candidate for liver transplant. serological monitoring of individuals rece-iving and giving the liver transplant is necessary for prevention, early diagnosis and treatment strategies and reducing the prevalence of infection. the aim of this study was to assess the...

aim : to assess the clinical characteristic of cd as well as correlation of symptoms and the degrees of intestinal mucosal lesions in iranian children. background : microscopic enteritis (marsh 0-ii) is associated with malabsorption. patients and methods : from august 2005 to september 2009, 111 cases with malabsorption and classical gastrointestinal symptoms were evaluated. results : the mean ...


 The aim of this study was ‎the‎ discrimination Salmonella‎‎ isolated from chicken and their feed ‎and drinking water for the epidemiological control salmonellosis. Totally, 289 samples, ‎including 217 cloaca swabs, 46 water, 26 samples were collected five ‎different farms in Karbala governorate, Iraq. Conventional bacteriology tests, API 20E, Vitek 2, serology used bacterial identificati...

BACKGROUND Recognition of the pivotal role of Helicobacter pylori in the pathogenesis of peptic ulcer disease has revolutionized primary care approaches to dyspepsia. Decision analysis was used to compare the cost effectiveness of empirical ranitidine with a test and treat strategy using either H pylori serology or the 13carbon-urea breath test (13C-UBT). PATIENTS AND METHODS A cohort of pati...

Introduction: The gold standard for diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is detecting severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), which expensive, time-consuming and may result in false-negative results. Serological tests can be employed RT-PCR negative patients, contact tracing, determining the probability protection...

Thailand is a nonendemic area of echinococcosis. We report, herein, 3 cases with a special note on the use of serology in detection of the disease in one family. All cases were Thais. The first case was a man, having a cystic mass in the liver. He was subsequently diagnosed as having echinococcosis following positive serology. The second case, a male, had a renal hydatid cyst revealed by histop...

The incidence of infectious syphilis in men who have sex with men and human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients has increased steadily in Victoria, Australia, since 2002. A TaqMan real-time PCR assay targeting the polA gene of Treponema pallidum (TpPCR) was developed. The analytical sensitivity of the assay was estimated to be 1.75 target copies per reaction. Initially, the assay was used ...