purpose: to ascertain whether the use of nested-pcr (nested polymerase chain reaction) technique leads to more rapid and accurate diagnosis of bacterial endophthalmitis. methods: the aqueous humor and vitreous samples of 24 eyes of 24 patients with bacterial endophthalmitis were evaluated by microscopy, diagnostic aerobic culture, and nested- pcr to detect the infectious agent. results: aerobic...

background: hepatitis b virus (hbv) causes acute and chronic liver disease worldwide. hbv has eight genotypes (a to h) which is the reflection of its genome with their characteristic geographical distribution. each genotype could have different pathogenic and therapeutic characteristics. there have been few records on hbv genotyping in general population from our region. this study aimed to det...

background: splicing by overlap extension (soe) pcr is used to create mutation in the coding sequence of an enzyme in order to study the role of specific residues in protein’s structure and function.objectives: we introduced a nested-soe-pcr (n –soe-pcr) in order to increase the specificity and generating mutations in a gene by soe-pcr.  materials and methods: genomic dna from bacillus thermoca...

results our study showed that the sensitivity and specificity of taqman real time pcr was 96% and 95% respectively. these values were 89% and 90, 38% and 100%, 6% and 100% for pcr, culture and microscopy, respectively. conclusions our study showed that sensitivity of taqman real time pcr was higher that pcr, culture and microscopy but specificity of culture and microscopy was more than pcr and ...

The nested polymerase chain reaction technique was compared with the conventional smear and culture methods for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The nested polymerase chain reaction used in this study showed excellent specificity, sensitivity, and agreement with the conventional methods for 417 clinical samples, indicating a contribution to the rapid diagnosis of mycobacterial infectiou...

Anaplasma bovis is a leukocytotropic agent of bovine anaplasmosis and there is no available information about molecular study on this agent in cattle of Iran. In this study a total 150 cattle blood samples were collected from central part of Iran. The presence of A. bovis examined using light microscopic detection and species-specific nested polymerase chain reaction (nested-PCR) based on 16S r...

Abstract Rabies is an acute progressive and zoonotic disease which caused by the rabies virus. virus prototype belonging to genus lyssavirus in family Rhabdoviridae of order Mononegavirales. The aim this study was develop a nested reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (nRTPCR) for detection along with canine internal control monitor integrity extracted RNA. A pair outer inner primer t...