Comparative study of current diagnostic method with clinical based method for brucellosis: presentation of diagnostic clinical criteria in limited resource area

Introduction and objectives: According to National Program against Brucellosis (NPB), diagnosis is based on serological tests (Wright>1/80 and 2 ME>1/20) in the presence of clinical finding. Regarding the lack of l...

Relation of Bab A2 genotype of Helicobacter pylori infection with chronic active gastritis, duodenal ulcer and non-cardia active gastritis in Alzahra hospital Isfahan, Iran

Introduction and objective: Bacterial virulence factors are important in determining disease outcome. The initial stage of colonization is binding of Helicobacter pylori to one of the gastric epithelial cells surface rec...

The evaluation of bacterial colonization on skin lesions of hospitalized patients in dermatology department of Ahvaz

Introduction and objective: A large number of microorganisms live on normal skin as commensals. When the skin is inflamed or otherwise abnormal, bacteria usually regarded as non-pathogenic on body surface may assume the...

Cutaneous mycosis in a rural area of Ahvaz, Iran

Prevalence of BK virus in renal allograft recipients pre and post transplantation in Iran

BK virus, a member of polyomaviridae, infects humans asymptomatically in their early infancy and remains latent in the kidney and urinary tract cells. Reactivation of BK virus in renal-transplanted patients occurs freque...