results in this setting, detection rate of the disease is 34.86%, if the high normal titer for the wrights test titer assumed 1/80 and is 44.95% if the titer assumed 1/40, while elisa test had detection rate of 58.72% for those suspicious cases. furthermore, the detection rate for diagnosis of active brucellosis with 2me tests was 17.54% with high normal titer of 1/80 and was 59.64% with a high...

background: visceral leishmaniasis (vl) is an endemic disease in some parts of iran. many techniques have been used for diagnosis of vl, among which the urine based la-tex agglutination test (katex) is a promising one. objective: to compare three diag-nostic tests of vl including katex, elisa and direct agglutination test (dat) in vl patients and healthy controls in the south west of iran. meth...

background: this study is performed to reveal most common species and subspecies of leptospires that are main causes of hu­man leptospirosis in guilan, northern province of iran. methods: we performed igm-elisa and mat on 282 blood samples from patients who attended to 3 hospitals in the flat area of guilan province with clinical symptoms consisted with leptospirosis.  all specimens with titers...

objective: herpes simplex virus (hsvs) is a widespread human infectious agent, responsible for persistent and latent infections. herpes simplex virus infections are usually continually recurrent in the normal population and represent a significant cause of complications in immunocompromised patients. materials and methods: in this study hsvs were propagated in bk cells and more than 502 sample...

background and aims: helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) is the microorganism that infects nearly half of word's population. there are several invasive and non-invasive methods for diagnosis of infection. the main objective of this study was to evaluate antigen of h. pylori in feces with h. pylori stool antigen (hpsa) test and comparison with rapid urease test (rut) in the patients suspected t...

background: the current study was conducted to compare elisa with thin layer chromatography (tlc) methods for diagnosis of morphine in the urine. methods: positive urine samples for morphine confirmed by immunochromatographic strips were collected from the imam reza toxicology laboratory, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad, iran in 2012 for the current study. then, the collated uri...

background and objectives: invasive and non-invasive techniques are used to diagnose h. pylori infection. some factors influence the choice of a diagnostic test, such as the sensitivity and specificity of the tests, the clinical circumstances and the cost-effectiveness of the testing strategy. the aim of this study was to reveal the relationship between different h. pylori infection diagnosis m...