background and objectives: cryptosporidiosis has not been reported as an endemic disease in kashmir, but high prevalence of cryptosporidium sp. has been found among asymptomatic (non-diarrheic) hiv positive immigrants in present study. due to increasing number of hiv positive immigrants in kashmir, cryptosporidium may become a public health problem in kashmir. materials and methods: a total of ...

An amplification polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for the direct detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in urethral and endocervical swab specimens from symptomatic and asymptomatic women and men were compared to standard culture technique. During 6 months, 300 endocervical swab specimens from 205 asymptomatic women (64.4%) and 95 symptomatic women (31.6%), and 187 urethral swab specime...

an amplification polymerase chain reaction (pcr) test for the direct detection of chlamydia trachomatis in urethral and endocervical swab specimens from symptomatic and asymptomatic women and men were compared to standard culture technique. during 6 months, 300 endocervical swab specimens from 205 asymptomatic women (64.4%) and 95 symptomatic women (31.6%), and 187 urethral swab specimens from ...

conclusions: the most common infectious episode among spinal cord injury patients was found to be urinary tract ınfection. e. coli was the most common microorganism isolated from urine samples. antibiotic use in the previous 2 weeks or 3 months, hospitalization during the last one-year and previous diagnosis of urinary tract ınfection were the risk factors identified for the development of infe...

purpose: to determine stereopsis with local (titmus) and global (tno) tests in symptomatic and asymptomatic subjects according to induced disparity (crossed or uncrossed). methods: in this cross sectional study, 80 students of zahedan university of medical sciences who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were randomly selected. at first, refractive error was determined by retinoscopy and then base...

the prevalence of exercise induced asthma (eia) in iran is not known. in the present study the  prevalence of  eia  among female students  of  guidance school  in the  city of mashhad was evaluated. a total of 1690 female students aged 12-14 years in ten randomly selected schools in north east of iran (mashhad) completed an asthma symptoms- specific questionnaire. one hundred forty four randoml...

conclusions considering the role of these bacteria in urogenital infections, a screening test is recommended. since the pcr assay is a highly sensitive and specific assay for the detection of these bacteria in male urine specimens, it provides a noninvasive technique for routine screening. objective this study was designed to estimate the prevalence of chlamydia trachomatis and mycoplasma genit...

conclusions the x-intercepts (point at which the fdc crosses the x-axis) were on average more in the base-in direction, y-intercepts (point at which the fdc crosses the y-axis) were shifted in the exo direction, and slopes were steeper in the symptomatic group. results there were more subjects with exo fixation disparity than eso fixation disparity in the study sample. the means for fixation di...

Background Chlamydia trachomatis infections are the most prevalent sexually transmitted bacterial infections (STI) in the world that lead to a cause of tubal factor infertility in women. The aim of this study is to determine the presence of C.trachomatis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and ELISA. MaterialsAndMethods Endocervical swabs were collected from 80 women; 22 of them were asymptomati...

trichomoniasis, the most widespread sexually transmitted disease is caused by trichomonas vaginalis. this parasite is site specific for the genitourinary tract and recruitment of macrophages as well as polymorphonuclear nutrophils (pmn) to the site of infection is the first line of defense as a component of non-specific resistance and immunity. in this study, balb/c mice were infected with 10 i...