visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) is a serious health problem in some northern and south western parts of iran. the incidence of kala-azar caused by leishmania infantum has recently increased in nourabad-mamassani district of fars province, in the south of the country. this study was designed to determine the role of asymptomatic dogs as host reservoir of l. infantum in this new formed focus a...

Melanoma antigen (MAGE)-A-derived peptides elicit a strong in vitro T-cell response against tumor cells. For determination of MAGE-A1, -2, -3, -4, -6, and -12 expression profile in invasive breast cancer, we developed a multiplex seminested reverse transcription-PCR-method. In total, 18 of 67 (27%) tumors were positive for at least one of these MAGE transcripts, and the expression pattern was h...

A method for the detection of infectious human rotaviruses based on infection of CaCo-2 cells and detection of infected cells by indirect immunofluorescence and flow cytometry (IIF-FC) has been developed. The technique was validated by performing a seminested reverse transcription-PCR assay with sorted cell populations. The efficiency of the procedure has been compared with that of the standard...

We have developed a procedure to test the efficiency and reliability of sequencing of Legionella pneumophila genes directly from respiratory samples and have compared the results with those derived from cultured isolates. We tried to obtain the nucleotide sequences of six protein-coding loci included in the sequence-based typing scheme for Legionella pneumophila and three intergenic regions fro...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Eales' disease is an idiopathic disease resulting in retinal neovascularization, recurrent haemorrhages, with or without retinal detachment predominantly affecting healthy young males (97.6%) in the Indian subcontinent. Inspite of several studies, the aetiology of Eales' disease is not clear. The isolation of Mycobacterium fortuitum from the aqueous humour of a patient w...

During an Outbreak of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in Shandong, China To the Editor—Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is caused by human enteroviruses, most frequently human enterovirus 71 (HEV-71) and coxsackievirus A16 (CV-A16). Other viruses (CV-A4 to A7, A9, A10, A24, and B2 to B5; echoviruses 1, 4, 11, and 18; and HEV-18) may also be associated with HFMD outbreaks or sporadic cases. HF...

In the present study further characterization of the amplified sequence of the citrate synthase gene of the spotted fever group Rickettsia isolated from Ixodes ricinus ticks in Sweden showed that it has 100% homology with the deposited sequence of the citrate synthase gene of Rickettsia helvetica. The restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) pattern of an amplified 382-bp product of the ...

Salinispora is the first obligate marine genus within the order Actinomycetales and a productive source of biologically active secondary metabolites. Despite a worldwide, tropical or subtropical distribution in marine sediments, only two Salinispora species have thus far been cultivated, suggesting limited species-level diversity. To further explore Salinispora diversity and distributions, the ...

The presence of BCR-ABL oncogene mutations in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) may be responsible for the failure of tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) treatment. The aim of the study was to evaluate the frequency of BCR-ABL gene mutations in patients with CML treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Our lab received 64 samples (34 women, 30 men) from patients with CML who failed or ha...