background: organ transplant recipients can experience serious diseases from infections due to emerging and reemerging parasitic infections. this study was carried out to evaluate the prevalence of intestinal parasites among renal transplant re-cipients of iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted from june 2003 to august 2004 on renal transplant recipients in iran. a total of 706...

CONTRIBUTING REVIEWERS The editors of Infectious Diseases of Poverty would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in volume 4 (2015).

1 Department and Institute of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, China 2 Intra-Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Westchester Medical Center of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA 3Department of Liver Surgery and Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 2...

For these reasons we aimed to develop rapid molecular biological methods for the detection of salmonellae and V cholerae in clinical, food and water samples. We also aimed to optimise these methods for routine use in a diagnostic and public health laboratory and to use these methods for detecting organisms prospectively in various clinical, food and environmental samples taken for surveillance ...