A sensitive assay for the detection of antigens of Toxoplasma gondii by spotting samples directly onto nitrocellulose paper was developed. The sensitivity ranged from 10 to 40 pg of antigen diluted in phosphate-buffered saline and 40 to 130 pg of antigen diluted in normal mouse serum, normal human serum, or human cerebrospinal fluid. T. gondii antigen in serum samples taken from mice infected w...

The purpose of this study is to introduce an application of fuzzy centroid-based approach to ranking the customer requirements using QFD with competition considerations for Diba Fiberglass, an Iranian Company. The illustrated approach, not only focuses on the normal fuzzy numbers, but also considers the non-normal fuzzy numbers to capture the true customer requirements. To this end, first, we p...

Caloapenesia Terayama is characterized by having the costal cell very long, the stigma of forewing absent, and the paramere deeply divided into two arms. Three species of this genus were known from Oriental Region. Sixteen new species from Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam: C. ana sp. nov., C. arbeni sp. nov., C. diba sp. nov., C. edas sp. nov., C. heira sp. nov., C. inyara sp. nov., C. jailuna s...

testosterone level was determined in six different populations of iran using saliva steroid assay. significant difference was observed in morning and afternoon testosterone level of the same individual (p>0.00l) significant difference was also noticed among different regions studied (p>0.00 1). comparisons between alcoholics and nonalcoholic as well as smokers and nonsmokers showed significant ...

Sugarcane mosaic potyvirus (SCMV) UP-isolate was antigenically similar to SCMV-A, SCMVMDB and two SCMV isolates from Thailand. The results were confirmed either by DAC-ELISA, EBIA, DIBA and ISEM independently or in combination. No reaction was evident with antiserum specific for other members of the Sugarcane mosaic potyvirus subgroup or any other potyviruses tested. The peptide profiling of a ...

data about hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in patients with hematologic malignancies are fragmentary and poor, 1-4 and concern patients who were previously treated (chemotherapy and/or transfusion) for their disease. Angelucci recently confirmed in this journal 5 that HCV infection is one of the major clinical problems of patients with thalassemia who began transfu-sional therapy before HCV s...