ABSTRACT- Desert truffles are hypogeous ascomyceteous ectomycorrhizal fungi, occurring in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. A PCR-based method was developed for the identification of 3 major desert truffles of Iran: Terfezia claveryi, Tirmania pinoyi and Tirmania nivea based on internal transcribed spacers of rDNA. Two specific PCR primers were designed for T. claveryi, 4 for T. pinoyi, and 2 for ...

objective: an entomological survey was carried out for leishmania vector incrimination of sand flies in northwestern iran. materials and methods: among other specimens, 358 sand flies belong to the sergentomyia genus were tested for leptomonad infection using semi-nested pcr method as well as sequence anlalysis of its-rdna fragment. results: results of semi-nested pcr against kietoplast dna...

aim : the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of gbv-c among iranian hbv positive patients using pcr-rflp technique. background : gbv-c was a member of flaviviridae family and recently propose to classify as members of a fourth genus in this family, named pegivirus  and suggest that at least one quarter of the world's population has been infected with this virus. gbv-c can be tr...

pneumocystis jirovecii causes pneumocystis pneumonia (pcp) in immunocompromised patients with a high rate of morbidity and mortality. colonization with this fungus may stimulate pulmonary inflammation or lead to pcp in susceptible patients. the epidemiology of this infection and routs of its transmission has poorly studied in iran. we examined pneumosystis colonization in patients with various ...