this research was performed in order to study and diagnose potato virus y,potyvirus (pvy), potato virus x,potexvirus (pvx), potato virus s,carlavirus (pvs), potato virus a,potyvirus(pva) and potato leafroll luteovirus (plrv) on tubers and leaves of different potato varieties, namely, solea, safran, floris, proventa, milva, universa, lady olympia, vangogh, and marabel grown in afyon region of tu...

objectives: patients with hepatitis c virus infection are at high risk of getting hepatitis a virus. hepatitis a virus is an important widespread virus that usually causes more severe medical consequences in patients with chronic liver disease. the purpose of this study was to evaluate prevalence of hepatitis a virus antibody in patients with chronic hcv in isfahan province, iran. methods: a cr...

conclusions with the help of iranian traditional medicine, and according to the six essential principles, the temperament of the patient should be modified, the temperament which caused the disease should be eliminated, and the return of disease should be prevented. also, with the help of topical treatments, its scars should be removed. results physicians of iranian traditional medicine believe...

conclusions herpes simplex virus was present in more patients with ms than healthy cases. hsv may be directly or indirectly associated with ms development. further comprehensive molecular studies are needed to confirm the etiopathologic association between hsv and ms disease. results totally, 63 (76.8%) patients with ms showed a history of hsv exposure by anti-hsv testing compared to 70 (78.7%)...

conclusions it appears that anti-hav antibody seroprevalence has declined among children below 15 years with and without chronic liver disease, and it is likely that more children would be susceptible to hav infection. therefore, it is important to employ preventative strategies against hav in chronic liver diseases. results seroprevalence of hav was 17.8% and 10% in the first and second study,...

background human t-cell lymphotropic virus types ι and ιι (htlv-ι and htlv-ii) are deltaretroviruses which may cause leukemia, lymphoma and htlv-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (ham/tsp). in addition, htlv-1 may be related to thalassemia and hemophilia cases after blood transfusion. objectives the aim of this study was evaluation of the prevalence of htlvs in patients with he...

mosquito borne infectious diseases are among important group of diseases worldwide. vaccination is available for some tropical mosquito-borne diseases, especially for japa-nese encephalitis virus infection and yellow fever. there are also several attempts to develop new vaccines for the other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection and west nile virus infection. in this articl...

objective: in recent years, humman papilomaviruses (hpv) infection is the most common type of sexual trasmitted diseases (std) in majority of countries. it's a significant source of morbidity and mortality worldwide. in this study, we aimed to compare the history of reproductive disease between two groups of iranian women with and without hpv infection through colposcopy precedure. materials an...