background: the risk for transmission of blood-borne viruses (bbvs) such as human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), hepatitis b virus (hbv) and hepatitis c virus (hcv) due to occupational exposure is a major concern in the health care setting. m aterials and methods: this study among 337 health care workers (hcws) accidentally exposed to bbvs was carried out from january 2009 to march 2015. the dat...

background meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes, which surround the brain and spinal cord. early treatment of bacterial meningitis can prevent serious complications. in the last two decades, three vaccines have been developed against the three main bacterial species implicated in meningitis of children in western countries and vaccine-preventable invasive bacterial meningitis has decr...

abstract background: in recent years, infrared thermography tools are used for viral disease detection. however, no study has been to evaluate the value of this device. the current study was designed to review the effectiveness of infrared thermography technique for diagnosis of viral diseases in international airports. materials and methods: this study was conducted as a systematic review. all...

background although certain hbv mutations are known to affect the expression of hepatitis e antigen, their association with hbv viral level or clinical outcomes is less clear. objectives we evaluated associations between different mutations in the basal core promoter (bcp) and pre-core (pc) regions of hbv genome and subsequent changes in hbv viral dna level over seven years in a population of u...

results based on our results, mab against recombinant erns was produced and reacted successfully with recombinant and natural antigens. conclusions with regards to the role of erns in the identification of pi animals, it appears that erns recombinant antigen and the specific monoclonal antibodies produced against it may be suitable for developing bvdv laboratory diagnostic assays. objectives er...

background hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is one the major health concern among the infected transplant patients. considering several complications of the disease in them, pre and post-transplantation studies should be performed for monitoring of the infection, as well as, developing new treatment protocols. objectives the current study was conducted to determine the hepatitis c virus rna le...

The study explored beliefs about health and illness in Latin American migrants diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (DM) living in Sweden, and investigated the influence on health-related behavior including self-care and care-seeking behavior. Migrants are particularly affected in the diabetes pandemia. Beliefs about health and illness determine health-related behaviour and health but no studies ha...

Transcription and translation require a high concentration of potassium across the entire tree of life. The conservation of a high intracellular potassium was an absolute requirement for the evolution of life on Earth. This was achieved by the interplay of P- and V-ATPases that can set up electrochemical gradients across the cell membrane, an energetically costly process requiring the synthesis...

Correlations and associations between specific organism characteristics (such as genome size, genome GC content, optimal growth temperature, habitat, oxygen requirements) may provide for deeper comprehension of evolutionary processes as well as for some prediction possibilities, e.g., trends prediction of some pandemia. There is a plenty of genotype data and gene sequences for different organis...