background: early diagnosis and treatment of leukemia patients remains a fundamental aim in clinical oncology, especially in developing country. present study highlights the basic requirements of these patients in iran. better understanding of these issues may lead to improve the healthcare standards toward leukemia diagnosis and treatment. methods: this descriptive study included 101 specialis...

the aim of the clinical laboratory in endocrine disease diagnosis and management is detecting either the hormones or their downstream reaction metabolites or some other related substances. in the case of hormone measurement almost all the routine methods are based on immunoassay with different labels (radioimmunoassay, enzyme linked immunosorbant assay, chemiluminescence assays …) and different...

noroviruses (novs), an important pathogenic agent of foodborne illness, lead to acute and chronic gastroenteritis in humans of all ages and to travelers’ diarrhea. many genotypes exist in nature; gii.4 is widely known as the most predominant. outbreaks mostly occur in semi-closed settings. although the disease is self-limited to person, many cases have resulted in death, which has raised more c...

direct agglutination test (dat) is a sensitive and simple method, which is applicable in field and unequipped laboratories. in order to evaluate dat in the diagnosis of toxoplasma infections, the antigen was prepared in the protozoology unit, school of public health and it was used in the following studies. a- 251 serum samples collected from suspected toxoplasmosis out-patients were examined f...

background: trichomoniasis is an extremely common sexually transmitted infection (sti) world­wide and is associated with important public health problems, including amplification of hiv transmission. this disease is in forms of symptomatic and asymptomatic in women and may de­pend on host as well as parasite variables. most of the studies reported from females are based on examination of vagina...

background and objective: typhoid fever is still a major health problem for which there are limited options for the diagnosis. current diagnostic methods are time consuming with undesirable sensitivity. among newer diagnostic methods, pcr is attractive and could be potentially very helpful in developing countries where systemic salmonella infections are endemic among children but needs to be in...

background management of bacterial sepsis as a common cause of hospitalization and a life threatening clinical syndrome is a challenge. in previous studies, incorrect diagnosis of sepsis and unnecessary treatment have been frequently reported. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnosis and treatment of cases with a primary diagnosis of sepsis. patients and methods of 410 med...

conclusions the homemade kit, compared with the imported kit and biopsy-proven tests may be a valid and reliable method for determining the presence of h. pylori infection in iran. background current diagnosis of helicobacter pylori infection by biopsy-based tests requires invasive sampling. non-invasive methods such as the h. pylori stool-antigen (hpsa) test may be the best alternative for dia...