Background: Infection with cytomegalo virus is usually asymptomatic however in pregnant women the risk of congenital infection and foetal abnormalities makes antenatal screening for CMV necessary. The aim this study was to determine sero-prevalence factors among Babcock University Teaching Hospital (BUTH), Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria.Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive conducted betwee...

*Corresponding author (email: ) Received: 05-10-07 Accepted: 23-11-07 staining technique, has been reported to be superior to other diagnostic methods.[4] Our study is in agreement with them and the Þ ndings tally with those of Kehl et al.,[5] with respect to superior efÞ cacy of microscopy in respect to ELISA as a procedure for routine diagnosis. The patterns of s...

Paediatric flexible bronchoscopy (F.B.) with bronchoalveolar lavage (B.A.L.) is an increasingly important investigation. Retrospective review of 180 FB performed over a 5 year period by a single operator was undertaken. Common indications included recurrent lower respiratory tract infections (n = 92, 51%), persistent atelectasis (n = 43, 24%), persistent infiltrates (n = 18, 10%) and persistent...

The bone marrow plays a unique role within the immune system. We compared the phenotype and function of virus-specific CD8(+) T cells from matched samples of human peripheral blood and bone marrow. Analysis of virus-specific memory CD8(+) T cells showed widely divergent partition of antigen-specific populations between blood and bone marrow. T cells specific for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) lytic a...