background and aims: influenza virus is a major pathogen involved in respiratory illnesses during winter seasons. a variety of diagnostic methods have been developed to identify influenza viruses in clinical specimen. methods: nasal and pharyngeal samples taken from patients were inoculated into madin-darby canine kidney (mock) cells and embryonated chicken eggs (eces). the culture media was as...

background and aims: the aim of this study was cloning and expression of rabies virus glycoprotein by a eukaryotic expression plasmid pcdna3.1(+) in bsr cell line. this construct might be used for a potential dna vaccine. materials and methods: glycoprotein gene was synthesized and cloned into pbluescript vector and then sub cloned into eukaryotic expression vector (pcdna3.1(+)). after verifica...