this paper is by terry kemp. she is a midwife with 10 years record of service. in this paper she speaks about her own experience which had burdened her in that condition. herpes gestation is a rare condition and has been defined in books related to autoimmune gestation disease. if your reaction after reading the title of this paper was just shrugging your shoulders and accepting it as a viral i...

patients with psychiatric disorders are usually more exposed to multiple somatic illnesses, including liver diseases. specific links are established between psychiatric disorders and alcohol hepatitis, hepatitis b, and hepatitis c in the population as a whole, and specifically in drug abusers. metabolic syndrome criteria, and associated steatosis or non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (nash) are fre...

introduction worldwide, chronic liver disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. causes of elevated serum alanine aminotransferase (alt) levels vary depending on the population under study. the aim of this study is to evaluate the frequency and causes of persistently elevated alt levels in patients of the gastroenterology (gi) clinics in ghaem and emam reza hospitals in mashhad, iran....

In order to describe the proportion and pattern of culling in commercial goatherds, this survey was carried out in an industrialized goatherd in Torbat-e-Jam, Iran, over a period of 18 years from 1996 to 2013. In total, the data of 3945 goats were used in this study. Finally, out of all samples, 499 (12%) goats were culled. The involuntary culling was performed mainly due to shortage disorders ...

conclusions the viral load in patients who suffer from cchf has a direct significant correlation with disease severity. viral load above 8.6 × 105 copies/ml on the first day of admission is a predictor of severe cchf. background crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) is an endemic disease in south eastern of iran, especially in sistan and baluchestan province. cchf is a potentially fatal diseas...

Betanodavirus is one of the two genera making up the family Nodaviridae and is the etiological agent of viral nervous necrosis (VNN, also known as viral encephalopathy and retinopathy or VER). The virus infects a large range of host species in more than 50 species of marine and freshwater fish worldwide from different geographical areas and the known host range continues to expand as new specie...

Betanodavirus is one of the two genera making up the family Nodaviridae and is the etiological agent of viral nervous necrosis (VNN, also known as viral encephalopathy and retinopathy or VER). The virus infects a large range of host species in more than 50 species of marine and freshwater fish worldwide from different geographical areas and the known host range continues to expand as new specie...

objectives the current research aimed to study achillea millefolium and thymus vulgaris antiviral activity against newcastle disease virus (ndv). materials and methods the antiviral activity of the plants was measured by the reduction assay of viral titer, and explained by inhibition percentage (ip). background nowadays natural products such as pure compounds and plant extract scan provide unli...

background the rate of mother-to-infant hepatitis c virus (hcv) transmission is relatively low, however, this mode of infection is the most important route for childhood hcv involvement. the chances of transmission are increased by the level of maternal hcv viraemia and maternal human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) co infection. objectives the objective of the present study was to determine the p...

Background & Aims: The H9N2 avian influenza subtype is endemic in many parts of Iran and has the ability to transmit from bird to human. In the present study, the risk of this subtype for humans was assessed by determination of the viral titer and shedding time in bird. Method: The experiment was done on fifteen male budgerigars at 4 months of age. The birds w...