background: brucellosis is a zoonotic disease and its symptoms and appearances are not exclusive in human and its tradi­tional diagnosis is based on blood culture and serological methods. for more sensitive and specific detection, the pcr method is recommended. methods: one hundred four blood samples were gathered from suspicious patients with brucellosis different ages form ker­manshah, mazand...

sera from ninety one patients clinically suspected to extra intestinal amoebiasis (ex-am) were collected and examined for presence of anti entamoeba histolytica (e.h) antibody. the tests were indirect immunofluorescence antibody, (ifa or iif), gel diffusion (gd) and counter immuno electrophoresis (ciep). thirty one patients (34%) had anti e.h. antibody titres of >1:80. among them eight patients...

We previously derived a typology of schizophrenia from a latent class analysis of 447 first-contact non-affective functional psychotic patients from a defined catchment area. Here, using the same sample, we show that the three subtypes, 'neurodevelopmental' (Type A), 'paranoid' (Type B) and 'schizoaffective' (Type C) have different premorbid, phenomenological and treatment response characterist...