To estimate HCV seroprevalence in subpopulations of women delivering live-born infants in the North Thames region in England in 2012, an unlinked anonymous (UA) cross-sectional survey of neonatal dried blood spot samples was conducted. Data were available from 31467 samples from live-born infants received by the North Thames screening laboratory. Thirty neonatal samples had HCV antibodies, corr...

BACKGROUND Brucellosis is considered the most important zoonosis in Jordan with high prevalence among man and livestock. METHODS This study was carried out on high risk people in 1992 in order to assess the seroprevalence of brucellosis in northern Jordan. The sera of 1236 individuals (636 at high risk and 600 controls) were evaluated using the Rose Bengal plate agglutination test (RBPT) and ...

background vancomycin-resistant enterococci (vre) are the most common nosocomial pathogen worldwide. colonization with vre can lead to serious infection, some of which e.g. vre sepsis can be fatal. because vre are dangerous important pathogens, we aimed to determine the prevalence of vre among patients admitted in infectious, icu and surgery wards in a referral teaching hospital in isfahan, ira...

background: varicella–zoster virus (vzv) causes herpes zoster and varicella (chicken-pox), usually a mild disease which is diagnosed clinically with few complications. however, in neonates and healthy adults it can have a severe presentation. herpes zoster results from vzv reactivation later in life. objective: to determine the seroprevalence of vzv in elementary school children aged 6-10 years...

how to cite this article: allahdin s, khademvatan s, rafiei a, momen aa, rafiei r. frequency of toxoplasma and toxocara sp. antibodies in epileptic patients, in south western iran. iran j child neurol. autumn 2015;9(4):32-40. abstract objective epilepsy is a disorder of the brain characterized by an enduring predisposition to generate seizures. infectious agents are mentioned in its etiology. w...

The aim of the study was to describe the epidemiology and determinants of anti-hepatitis A seroprevalence in 2- to 19-year-olds in the USA for 2007-2008. This study was conducted in a sample of 2621 individuals aged 2-19 years in the USA using data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007-2008. The overall seroprevalence of anti- hepatitis A virus (HAV) in this popula...

BACKGROUND Polio is eliminated in the United States, with the last indigenous transmission occurring in 1979. However, global eradication of polio has not yet been completed, so importation of poliovirus into the U.S. is still possible. Specimens from the 2009-10 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were analyzed to evaluate population seroprevalence and assess overall risk...

AIM The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of Hepatitis E virus (HEV) among blood donors in southwest Switzerland. BACKGROUND HEV is recognized as a food-borne disease in industrialized countries, transmitted mainly through pork meat. Cases of transmission through blood transfusion have also been reported. Recent studies have revealed seroprevalence rates of 13.5%, 16.6% an...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is one of the most common causes of acute liver diseases in humans worldwide. In developing countries, HEV is commonly associated with waterborne outbreaks. Conversely, in industrialized countries, HEV infection is often associated with travel to endemic regions or ingestion of contaminated animal products. Limited information on both, human and anim...

Bluetongue (BT), caused by bluetongue virus (BTV), is an arthropod-borne viral disease in ruminants. However, information about BTV infection in yaks in China is limited. Moreover, no such data concerning BTV in Tibetan sheep is available. Therefore, 3771 serum samples were collected from 2187 Tibetan sheep and 1584 yaks between April 2013 and March 2014 from Tibetan Plateau, western China, and...