BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The significant rise in food borne infections is mainly caused by Campylobacter spp., Salmonella serovars and Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli. As the emerging food borne pathogens cause disease, more studies have been conducted for rapid detection of these pathogens. The combination of immunomagnetic separation and polymerase chain reaction (IMS-PCR) is the most accurat...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of Gram stain versus Pap smear in diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis (BV). METHODS One-thousand and sixty women were enrolled in this study. All cases with symptoms of BV were determined by Amsel's criteria, which were accepted as the gold standard for diagnosis of BV. Pap smear and Gram stain evaluations were compared accor...

Objective: The histological stage is crucial for the management of patients with chronic hepatitis C. Because invasiveness and some limitations liver biopsy a lot noninvasive tests are in search intensively to use instead biopsy. In this study, we searched relationship neutrophil lymphocyte ratio inflammation fibrosis histology Materials Methods: This study retrospectively investigated datas 62...

background and aims: iron deficiency anemia (ida) and beta thalassemia minor (btm) are the most common hypochromic microcytic anemias, and it is regarded important to differentiate between them. several formulae can be taken into consideration based on red blood cell (rbc) parameters in order to distinguish between these two disorders. hence, the present study intended to evaluate the sensitivi...

The purpose of our work was to study the effectiveness using an intelligent information- analytical system assess health status students on basis one universities in Kazakhstan, Kazakh National University named after Al -Farabi. For this purpose, a simulation performed individual data 4456 university students. involved 47.4% female and 52.6% males; predominant age ranged from 18 21 years (66.9%...

introduction amblyopia is a leading cause of visual impairment in both childhood and adult populations. our aim in this study was to assess the epidemiological characteristics of the amblyopia screening program in iran. materials and methods a cross-sectional study was done on a randomly selected sample of 4,636 iranian children who were referred to screening program in 2013 were participated i...