background and objectives: rapid clinical manifestation/progression of the meningococcal meningitis and lacunae in conventional bacteriological test often encourages indiscriminate use of antibiotics much before the etiology is established. this study was planned to evaluate ctra pcr for rapid molecular detection. in addition, multiplex pcr and sequencing was done for serogroup prediction to pr...

The growth hormone gene could be an attractive candidate gene for milk production in goats. Single-strand conformation polymorphism was used to identify polymorphism at the goat growth hormone (gGH) gene. For this purpose, genotyping of 90 Talli goat breeds was performed. Nine conformational patterns were observed in exon 4 of the gGH gene, with frequencies of 27.7% for the homozygous pattern (...

brucellosis, caused by brucella spp., is an important zoonotic disease that causes abortion and infertility in cattle and undulant fever in humans. various studies have examined cell-free native and recombinant proteins as candidate protective antigens in animal models. among brucella immunogenes, antigen based on ribosomal preparation has been widely investigated. in this study, the immunogeni...

the growth hormone gene could be an attractive candidate gene for milk production in goats. single-strand conformation polymorphism was used to identify polymorphism at the goat growth hormone (ggh) gene. for this purpose, genotyping of 90 talli goat breeds was performed. nine conformational patterns were observed in exon 4 of the ggh gene, with frequencies of 27.7% for the homozygous pattern (...

background: cd19 is a pan b cell marker that is recognized as an attractive target for antibody-based therapy of b-cell disorders including autoimmune disease and hematological malignancies. the object of this study was to stably express the human cd19 antigen in the murine nih-3t3 cell line aimed to be used as an immunogen in our future study. methods: total rna was extracted from raji cells i...

veritable identification and differentiation of avian species is a vital step in conservative, taxonomic, forensic, legal and other ornithological interventions. therefore, this study involved the application of molecular approach to identify some avian species i.e. chicken (gallus gallus), muskovy duck (cairina moschata), japanese quail (coturnix japonica), laughing dove (streptopelia senegale...

a total of 3204 abo and rh blood groups were investigated in larestan and lamerd populations, in fars province, in iran. the frequency of the a gene ranged from 16.54% to 21.96, the b gene from 15.85 to 27.77% and that of the d gene from 21.49 to 33.01% ; compared with the gene frequencies of 20.97% for the b and 28.50% for the d in the general population. it seemed that the two populations stu...