equine piroplasmosis is a tick-borne disease caused by intra-erythrocyte protozoa, theileria equi and babesia caballi. the present study aimed to detect piroplasm infection in horses in kurdestan province, iran, through molecular and microscopic approaches.n this study, 186 blood samples were randomly collected from horses of five regions of kurdestan province. the tbs-s/tbs-a primer set was us...

background thalassemia patients are at risk of blood borne viral infections because of repeated transfusion of blood products. objectives we aimed to determine the prevalence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection in these patients in zabol, iran. methods this study was conducted on 152 patients with thalassemia at the center of special diseases of zabol. demographic data were collected and serum...

Blood culture is one of the most important diagnostic tests in medicine, considering significant morbidity and mortality associated with bloodstream infection (BSI). However, it an often misused misinterpreted test everyday paediatric practice. In this article, we explore evidence related to blood cultures, aim providing clear clinically-relevant recommendations for its judicious use.

BACKGROUND Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) infection in blood donors could represent a risk for transmission in blood recipients. There is scarce information about the epidemiology of T. gondii infection in blood donors in Mexico. Therefore, we sought to determine the prevalence of T. gondii infection and associated socio-demographic and behavioral characteristics in a population of healthy blood...

Sir, Hepatitis B infection is a major blood transmittable infection in the country’. To know the prevalence of hepatitis B infection in professional and family/voluntary blood donors, we screened 103 professional blood donors and 2,573 family/voluntary blood donors for RBsAg with Auszyme kit (Abbott Laboratories). Ten professional blood donors and 134 family/voluntary blood donors were HBsAg po...