Our report discusses a patient diagnosed with PAN since 3 years ago. He presented with fever, chills and nonproductive cough. He was a long time receiver of immunosuppressant drugs for his underlying condition. Upon examination he was febrile, had cushingoid appearance and cackles in both lungs. Lung CT scan showed opacities in right upper lobe lung and multiple bilateral nodules and ground gla...

this experimental study was carried out to induce a co-infection of h9 aiv and ibv with inoculumsprepared from tracheal scrubbed epithelium tissues in natural co-infected birds to rule out the effect of fieldundesired environmental conditions and also other infectious causative agents. eighty 1-day-old broilerswere randomly divided into four equal groups. at 21 days of age, three test groups we...

  Background and Objective: Sinusitis is one of the most common hygienic problems and a large part of the budget has been allocated to its diagnosis and treatment yearly. In this study, the presence of cytomegalovirus in sinuses of patients, undergone operation for treatment, with or without sinusitis, was studied. Materials and Methods: This study was an applied and case-co...

background and objective: sinusitis is one of the most common hygienic problems and a large part of the budget has been allocated to its diagnosis and treatment yearly. in this study, the presence of cytomegalovirus in sinuses of patients, undergone operation for treatment, with or without sinusitis, was studied. materials and methods: this study was an applied and case-control study, which had...

Abbreviations: CCR: Chemokine Co-receptor; CMV: Cytomegalovirus; CTL: Cytotoxic Lymphocytes; FIPV: Feline Infectious Peritonitis virus; HBV/HCV: Hepatitis B/C Virus; HIV/ AIDS: Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; HSV: Herpes Simplex Virus; JEV: Japanese Encephalitis Virus; MS: Mass Spectrometry; NK: Natural Killer Cells; NMR: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; NRTI: Nucle...

Background Beta-thalassemia patients receive blood products from blood transfusion centers repeatedly. Blood transfusion can transmit Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Toxoplasma gondii. The aim of this study was serological evaluation of these two infectious agents in thalassemia patients. Materials and Methods In a cross-sectional study, the enzymelinked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) testing was pe...

A case of pyrexia of unknown origin in a 35-year-old man, who had become a father nine months earlier, is presented. A diagnosis of cytomegalovirus mononucleosis was achieved only after extensive investigations. It is suggested that cytomegalovirus mononucleosis should be added to the differential diagnosis when investigating pyrexia of unknown origin in fathers of young children.

evidences from many studies suggested a polymerase chain reaction (pcr) as a valuable method for diagnosing infectious disease in the transplant recipients. we used this method for detection of toxoplasma, gondii and human cytomegalovirus in blood specimens from patients after bone marrow or kidney transplantation. dna of both infectious agents were detected using two separate sets of nested pr...