while an important infectious disease in the united states and eurasia, lyme disease is rare in iran. we present a 9-year old boy admitted in children’s medical center in december 2001 with final diagnosis of lyme disease. on admission he showed arthritis and a history of previous skin lesions. serologic examination including enzyme–linked immunosorbent assay and western blot was positive for l...

conclusions: it was concluded that the elisa is a suitable method for large scale screening of antibodies against aspergilloma. the easy techniques have shortened the required time of tests (approximately 1.30 hours for our elisa, as opposed to 2.30 hours with commercial elisa kit). this may be a substantial benefit for large numbers of samples that should be tested. materials and methods: an i...

conclusions the serological characteristics of syphilis varied with gender and age. syphilis screening and control should be conducted for young patients and pregnant women, but special attention should also be paid to elderly inpatients. the trust assay is better used in syphilis screening and for judgment of curative effects, but the diagnosis needs specific methods, such as the tp-elisa and ...

methods: in a retrospective descriptive study, medical records of 204 hip fractured patients with the age of 60 or older who were admitted to the department of orthopedics was considered regarding routine laboratory tests. predictive values of these tests were assessed using receiver operating characteristic curve (roc).  results: the incidence of death due to hip fracture was 24%. the mortalit...

the aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic value of a serologic test for helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) in pediatric population presenting with abdominal pain suspected of peptic disease. we conducted a preospective cross sectional study. there were 202 children with abdominal pain. serologic bm test using helisual quick test kit was performed. all patients then underwent endoscopic...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to estimate the cost-effectiveness of using individual-donor nucleic acid testing (ID-NAT) in addition to serologic tests compared with the sole use of serologic tests for the identification of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among blood donors in Sweden. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS The two strategi...

HLA-A24 is the second most frequently expressed HLA-A type in Koreans (GF 22.8%). Four different serologic reaction patterns were observed in Korean A24 positive samples using a commercial serologic typing kit. To clarify the nature of serologic heterogeneity, thirteen A24 positive DNA samples representing the four different serologic reaction patterns were subjected to DNA sequencing analysis ...

aim : the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of celiac disease in iranian patients suffering from chronic depression or schizophrenia. background : psychiatric disorders are common in untreated celiac disease. patients and methods : two hundred iranian inpatient men with in chronic phase of depressive disorders or schizophrenia, and 200 age-matched healthy male subjects were scre...