BACKGROUND Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are recently identified lentiviruses that cause progressive immune decline and ultimately death in infected cats and humans. It is of great interest to understand how to prevent immune system collapse caused by these lentiviruses. We recently described that disease caused by a virulent FIV strain in cats can b...

Stress is known to precipitate neuropsychiatric diseases, and depending upon its nature and intensity it can also influence the functioning of the immune system. Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxy tryptamine) a pineal gland hormone and potent antioxidant is known to protect against many diseases. Effect of melatonin in stress-induced neuro-immunomodulation is not well elucidated. Therefore in the pr...

Introduction Hyperlactatemia is often associated with poor clinical outcomes. Mortality is increased when lactic acidosis with low-flow states or sepsis. For improving poor prognosis, early detection and intervention of hyperlactatemia are important. There are call for monitoring blood lactate level. However, hyperlactatemia is often associated with type II lactic acidosis in hemato-oncologic m...

1 Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Brussels, Belgium, 2 Service du Sang, Belgian Red Cross, Brussels, Belgium, 3 Hemato-oncology Department, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Brussels, Belgium, 4 Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 5 Laboratory of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, U...

background: copper is a trace element vital to life, but the toxic effect of water pollution with it on fish is now exhibited. fish blood is susceptible to contamination-induced stress and its alternation due to the hematological and immunological parameters can be utilized as toxicity indices of xenobiotics. methods: in this study, juvenile species of silver carp with average weight of 200gr w...

Infectious endocarditis is defined as an infection of the endocardial surface area of the heart which can include one or more cardiac valves, mural endocardium or a septal defect. We present the case of a patient, aged 8, hospitalized in Hemato-Oncology Department with pontine glioma, who was also diagnosed with infectious endocarditis in five locations.