Introduction: Brucellosis is one of the most common zoonotic infections worldwide. The clinical symptoms of brucellosis are similar to a wide range of diseases; hence, reliable diagnostic and laboratory methods are required to identify the causative agent. Iran is an endemic region of brucellosis, and many patients are misdiagnosed due to the nature of the infection. In this study, we aimed to ...

Background: Brucellosis is one of the important zoonotic diseases with variety of symptoms and signs. Using of cost effective, easy and safe diagnostic methods in screening of brucellosis is an important priority. Several studies have been carried out to recognize appropriate diagnostic methods and each have reported different results. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the sensitivi...

background: rose bengal is a common test for serologic diagnosis of brucellosis. the aim of this study was to evaluate the agreement rate between modified rose bengal, rose bengal and rapid wright tests for detection of antibody positive serum samples.  methods: c ross section study was designed. 941 serum sample of patients referred to the central medical laboratory of kermanshah, were evaluat...

Standard immune responses are the sum of many clonal responses, cross-reactive and specific. Any study of clonal expression as well as analysis of its products requires the separation of clones. There are several approaches to this goal (1-3). The one we used was to generate immune responses of restricted heterogeneity where a limited number ofclonotypes determine the response (4, 5). The prere...

Jeri Wright studies the neural basis of behaviour and the nutritional ecology of honeybees in the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University. A Wyoming native, she studied botany at the University of Wyoming while working as an assistant researcher in the entomology museum. As an undergraduate, she first combined her interest in plants and insects by studying insect nutrition as a Rhodes...