background: cigarette smoking has been linked with the suppression of immune responses and increased susceptibility to numerous infections in humans. tetanus is also a major public health problem in many countries. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the serum levels of anti-tetanus toxin antibodies in c igarette smoking and healthy non-smoking people .   materials and methods: a total...

background: the increasing incidence of pertussis among adolescents and adults in recent years is an alarming factor in transmission of the infection to non-immune infants and children. vaccination of pregnant women, immediately after delivery and before being discharged from the hospital may help to protect mothers and their newborns against the disease. decision making process, regarding mate...

background: our information regarding immunity to toxoplasmosis among reproductive age women is indeterminate and there is significant variation between reported results; it is necessary to perform a meta-analysis study on subjects to obtain required findings and develop preventive measures accordingly. objective: estimation level of immunity to toxoplasmosis in reproductive ages. materials and...

conclusions more than 95% of 15 to 25 year-old women (main reproductive age in iran) are within acceptable immunity range. level of immunity to rubella in women of reproductive age in this region appears satisfactory. patients and methods this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 760 women younger than 25 years attending medical centers in ahvaz. a sample of 3 ml of venous blood w...

background: the aim of the present study was the comparison of humoral and cell-mediated immunity in broilers fed with different levels of zinc during a coccidiosis challenge. methods: one hundred and forty- four one-day-old broiler chicks were used with three dietary zinc (40, 120 and 200 mg/kg). at 14 d of age, all birds were inoculated orally with 5×10 3 sporulated oocysts of e. tenella . at...

humoral immune response of vaccine-i (supermatent from sonicated sporulated oocyst), vaccine –ii (sediment from sonicated sporulated oocyst) and vaccine –iii (un-sonicated sporulated oocyst) against conccidiosis in chickens was determined by indirect haemagglutination (iha) test. iha antibody titre was significantly higher (p

Deficiences imunitaire acquises Les , deficits nnmumtaires pathologiques af­ systeme des phagocytes, l'immunite a mechation_ cellulare :t la synthese des im­ Illfnoglobulmes so1t separement, soit con­Jom temen t. La manifestation .clinique de ces deficits est la ,frequence _des mfections bacterielles, vir­ales et mycotiques.  Le triteJent s deficits immunitaire a part la therap1e antnnfectieu...