to evaluate the correlation of cytomegalovirus (cmv) and coronary artery disease (cad), one-hundred patients with cad and the same number of healthy individuals as a control group were randomly selected and studied for anti-cmv using elisa method. ninety percent of patients and 77 percent of the control group were anti-cmv positive and statistical analysis showed a significant correlation betwe...

a research study was carried out on the indirect selection efforts amongst small scale holders of west african dwarf (wad) goats based on coat pigmentation and wattle types in ogbomoso, nigeria using personal interviews and structured questionnaires given using simple random on-farm techniques. the questionnaires were focused on the ownership distribution, preferred pigmentation and wattle type...

following an outbreak of fascioliasis in anzali harbor in 1988, 452 blood samples were collected using a multistage sampling method for hematological and serological studies. after determination of eosinophilia in the samples, antifasciolia antibodies in the sera were also determined using enzyme linked immuno sorbant assay (elisa) and counter-current immuno electrophoresis (ccie). 64.2% of the...

charcoal rot caused by macrophomina phaseolina is an important disease of soybean throughout the world. to understand the spatial distribution of soybean charcoal rot incidence and m. phaseolina populations in golestan province, 172 soybean fields were surveyed for population density, in two successive years, and integrated with geographic information system (gis). each year, 60 fields were als...

background: echinococcosis is a parasitic disease with worldwide distribution which is caused by the tapeworms echinococcus granulosus . diagnosis of the disease relies on imaging techniques, but the techniques are not able to differentiate the cyst from benign or malignant tumors; hence, appropriate serologic methods are required for the differential diagnosis of the infection. materials and m...

Background: Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) are expressed on NK cells and a subset of T cells. The variable KIR receptors along with their ligands, HLA class I, influence risk for autoimmune and malignant diseases. Objective: To investigate the KIR gene profiles in relation to susceptibility to Graves’ disease in patients with ophthalmopathy. Methods: KIR genes profiles were ana...