In a recent Blood report, Bowden et al’ concluded that filtration is an effective alternative to the use of seronegative blood products for prevention of transfusion-associated cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in CMV seronegative marrow transplant patients. Furthermore, they suggest their results justify abandoning the maintenance of dual inventories of seronegative and seropositive/unscreened b...

Transfusion-acquired cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections should be prevented in seronegative immunocompromised patients by providing blood products from donors who are also seronegative. Latex agglutination was investigated as a simple and rapid method for detecting antibody against CMV. Latex beads were coated with CMV antigen, incubated for 8 min at room temperature with 25 microliter of sera, a...

BACKGROUND Screening tests are available to determine immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases, such as mumps and rubella. We aimed to define better assay for detecting immune status of health care personnel to vaccine-preventable diseases. METHODS Mumps and rubella antibodies of health care personnel at Shimane University Hospital were examined by hemagglutination inhibition assay (HI), comp...

Few studies have explored hospitalization outcome differences between patients who are seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) compared to HIV-seronegative patients with acute myocardial infarctions (AMIs). The aim of this study was to explore in-hospital AMI mortality risk in seropositive and seronegative patients. A secondary analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample from 1997 t...

چکیده مقدمه: یکی از پارامترهایی که در رابطه با خلوص روغن زیتون در استانداردهای بین المللی مورد توجه می باشد مقدار اسید چرب اشباع در موقعیت 2 مولکول تری آسیل گلیسرول (2-sn) می باشد. در این پژوهش کمیت و کیفیت روغن زیتون فرابکر ایرانی از نقطه نظر ترکیب اسیدهای چرب و اسید چرب اشباع 2-sn بررسی گردید. همچنین تغییرات مقدار اسید چرب اشباع 2-sn روغن زیتون فرابکر در اثر اختلاط با روغن های کلزا (col) و سو...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To compare the demographic, clinical, laboratory, and microbiological data, and the hospital course and outcome of HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative adults with bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia. DESIGN Retrospective observation study conducted over a 2-year period. SETTING Academic teaching hospital attached to the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South A...

OBJECTIVE To develop a set of comprehensive, standardized, evidence-based guidelines for the use of antiviral therapy to prevent cytomegalovirus disease in adult patients having undergone renal transplantation. OPTIONS The use of medication, at the time of induction therapy or at the earliest sign of viremia. Treatments were evaluated by patient and donor serologic groups and the induction re...

OBJECTIVES Little is known about the impact of HIV infection on biological ageing in sub-Saharan Africa. The study aimed to assess biological ageing in South African HIV-infected adults and HIV-seronegative individuals using two validated biomarkers, telomere length and CDKN2A expression (a mediator of cellular senescence). DESIGN A case-control study. METHODS Two hundred and thirty-six HIV...