hymenolepis nana is a common parasite of rodents as well as human intestine. this parasite has beenreported from all over the world, including iran. the infection rate has been reported up to 40% in someareas. the infection has various clinical manifestations. the parasite could establish severe hyperinfection inpatients with immune deficiency. regarding the rodents as hosts of the parasite, th...

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) exhibits surprisingly high genomic diversity during natural infection although little is known about the limits or patterns of HCMV diversity among humans. To address this deficiency, we analyzed genomic diversity among congenitally infected infants. We show that there is an upper limit to HCMV genomic diversity in these patient samples, with ∼ 25% of the genome bei...

Strains of Lactobacillus salivarius are increasingly employed as probiotic agents for humans or animals. Despite the diversity of environmental sources from which they have been isolated, the genomic diversity of L. salivarius has been poorly characterized, and the implications of this diversity for strain selection have not been examined. To tackle this, we applied comparative genomic hybridiz...