introduction: among the united arab emirates (uae) population more and more people now consider travelling abroad. this is potentially problematic because travelling enhances exposure between hosts and pathogens and so people that travel are putting their health at risk. this concern makes it necessary that public education is provided to inform people of the risks of travelling abroad so that ...

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chicken anemia virus was detected by pcr in tissue samples collected from poultry flocks in gujarat,india. the vp1, vp2 and vp3 gene sequences of cav from anand, gujarat were obtained after cloning thepcr products in pdrive cloning vector. nucleotide sequence alignment with other cav sequencesdemonstrated overall identity of 95-98.8%, 98.8-99.8% and 98.8-100% for vp1, vp2 and vp3 regions,respec...

introduction epstein-barr  virus  (ebv)  infection  can  present  with  a  variety  of  manifestation. case report  here  we  present  a  case  of  a  7  year- old  immunocompetent  girl  who  came  with  acute  abdominal  pain ,  had  echocardiographic  evidence  of  myocardial  dysfunction  and  finally  was  diagnosed  as  a  case  of  serologically  proven  acute  ebv  infection. conclusion...

objective: primary immunodeficiency diseases (pid) are rare and heterogeneous congenital diseases leading to increased unusual susceptibility to developing infections and causingsome malignancies and autoimmune diseases. this study was conducted to evaluate the epidemiological characteristics of primary these diseases in patients attending the clinic of immunodeficiency diseases in kerman.subje...

A 6-year-old boy presented with sudden onset of progressive, asymptomatic crops of well-demarcated, symmetrical, hypomelanotic macules ranging in size from 0.1 to 0.5 cm [Figures 1-3]. The eruption appeared in crops and began on the forearms and then spread to legs and thighs and face over a period of 1 week. Most lesions were non-scaly and discrete. Some closely situated macules showed conflue...

In typical pertussis in young infants, the child will appear deceptively well; he or she will have coryza, sneezing, and a mild cough. There is no fever. This progresses to gagging, gasping, eye bulging, bradycardia, cyanosis, and vomiting. There is leukocytosis with lymphocytosis and apneic episodes. Deaths relate to leukocytosis, pulmonary hypertension, and pneumonia. The source of pertussis ...

The biochemical and serological characteristics, virulence properties, and genetic relatedness of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains isolated in S o Paulo, from April 1989 through March 1990, were determined. This is also the first report on clinic findings of human STEC infections in Brazil. The only three STEC strains identified in that period were lysine decarboxylase nega...

Group A streptococcus (GAS), or Streptococcus pyogenes, is the most common pathogen responsible for bacterial pharyngitis, which has the following characteristic clinical manifestations: fever, tender cervical lymphadenopathy, exudative pharyngeal discharge, and absence of common cold symptoms (cough, coryza, rhinorrhea, diarrhea, oral ulcer) [1, 2]. In addition to these Centor criteria, GAS ph...