background: the human t-cell lymphotropic virus type i is the first retrovirus idenfied in humans. the virus has been associated with adult t-cell leukemia/lymphoma, human t-lymphotropic virus type i, myelopathy/tropical spasc paraparesis, uveis, arthris, pulmonary lymphocyc alveolis, keratoconjuncvis sicca, and infecous dermas. human t-lymphotropic virus type iis endemic in japan, p...

conclusions the palestinian and israeli official policies to give a booster dose for risk groups like medical students at anti-hbs level below 10 miu/ml should continue to ensure absolute protection. the currently-used vaccine and its time program cleared virus from students believed to have been exposed to the virus during their lifetime. background hepatitis b infection is a global public hea...

introduction: blood derived products have been known as an effective treatment for many years. however, this treatment is not without risk of infections transmission including hepatitis b virus (hbv) and hepatitis c virus (hcv) and human immune-deficiency virus (hiv) in people who received the blood. nevertheless, due to a high risk of blood born diseases through blood transfusion, screening fo...

flaviviridae are viruses that cause several diseases including dengue fever, japanese encephalitis, murray valley encephalitis, tick-borne encephalitis, west nile encephalitis, yellow fever and hepatitis c virus infection. members of this family have monopartite, linear, single-stranded rna genomes of positive polarity, 9.6-12.3 kb in length. here, we have analyzed the codon usage of 13 species...

background & aim: the recent study was conducted to investigate the effects of thyme extract in drinking water on immune response of broiler chickens. experimental:  a total of 245 day-old broiler chicks were purchased and 20 chicks were bled for determination maternal antibody and remaining chicks divided into 5 equal groups. chickens of group a, b and c received 0.1%, 0.15% and 0.2% ofthy...

results in a total of 40 sporadic prostate cancer and 80 benign prostatic hyperplasia cases, no xmrv was detected by real-time pcr and nested-pcr. rnase l r462q polymorphism analysis reveals that although there was an increase in the risk of prostate cancer correlated with the q/q allele of rnase l at position 462, the frequencies of the rnase l r462q alleles were not statistically significant ...

objective(s) herpes simplex viruses (hsvs) have widespread and ubiquitous prevalence in the human population and they have received a great deal of attention due to the range of diseases, they caused as a result of an infection. it seems that the fast and reliable diagnostic methods are needed for detecting the herpes simplex virus type 1 (hsv1) antibodies especially in patients with hsv enceph...

influenza c virus possesses specific neuraminate-o-acetylesterase as a receptor-destroying function. this enzymatic activity of the viral glycoprotein hef (hemagglutinin, esterase activity and fusion factor) can be visualized in situ by the use of distinct color substrates. hereby the localization, as well as the quantity of synthesized hef protein is detectable. we further developed the estera...