Diagnosis: Epstein-Barr virus acute infectious mononucleosis. Laboratory testing revealed a positive heterophile antibody, a positive Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) viral capsid antibody immunoglobulin M, a negative EBV viral capsid antibody immunoglobulin G, and a serum EBV DNA load of 2597 copies/mL. Additional laboratory testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (including an HIV antibody and...

conclusions igm alone is not a marker for viral shedding in genital tract. molecular testing in conjunction of igg test should be evaluated as an option to determine hsv status, and applied for research on hsv genital infections records. methods two hundred and eight females were included in the study; igm antibodies against hsv1/2 were detected in serum samples; the real-time polymerase chain ...

A 10-year-old Caucasian boy was referred for evaluation of an acute eruption that had developed over the past 8 days. The began in right popliteal fossa, and then coalesced spread along side his body. fever up to 38°C joint pain were reported 3 days before appearance skin lesions. Physical examination showed erythematous edematous macules papules on hemibody (Figure). left did not show any Labo...

waterborne epidemics of viral diseases have occurred and been reported over the years, and isolation of viruses from water of different sources has been made possible by different methods of concentration. it is now believed that bacterial parameters of water purity may not provide an adequate index as to the safety from a virological point of view. in this study eight samples from four main te...

conclusions our findings indicate that patients with the homozygous cc genotype in the il28b gene had a significantly higher rate of response to treatment than those with the tt or ct genotypes. nor does the il28b rs12979860 polymorphism affect the viral load. results the genotype frequencies of rs12979860 polymorphism in group 1 were cc (28.9%), ct (37.8%) and tt (33.3%) and in group 2 were cc...

conclusions the newly developed simple indirect elisa showed high sensitivity and specificity with respect to vnt. developing such a simple, sensitive, and specific elisa which is much less expensive than the available commercial elisa kits can improve the detection of bvdv infections, help to eliminate the disease from herds, and decrease economic losses caused by this disease. background bovi...