Although there is a presumed drug-drug interaction between itraconazole and nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors, the medical literature lacks such documentation. We describe a drug-drug interaction between itraconazole and efavirenz in a patient with disseminated histoplasmosis and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The drug combination resulted in persistently elevated urina...

We have previously identified the Legionella 19-kDa peptidoglycan-associated lipoprotein (PAL) as a species-common immunodominant antigen. We describe here for the first time the excretion and detection of the PAL antigen in infected urine specimens, which is useful for the diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease. Rabbit anti-PAL immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody was produced by immunization with the ...

In addition to ultrasonographic monitoring of folliculogenesis, urinary luteinizing hormone testing, luteal phase endometrial biopsy, serum antiphospholipid antibodies, etc., immunologic tests are recently being used to evaluate reproductive disorders. In this study, sharing of HLA-A, B, C and DR antigens and the presence of antipaternal cytotoxic antibody (APCA) was assessed using microcyt...

Prostate cancer represents the second highest malignancy rate in men all diagnoses worldwide. The development and progression of prostate is not completely understood yet at molecular level, but it has been reported that changes N-glycosylation prostate-specific antigen (PSA) occur during tumor genesis. In this paper we report on implementation a high-throughput capillary electrophoresis based ...

Prostate cancer is the most common malignant tumor in men. The vast majority of prostate tumors are represented by prostatic adenocarcinomas (up to 95%). Sarcoma a very rare adults with formidable prognosis. Early diagnosis and radical surgery offer patients best chance cure. We report case 44-year-old patient stage VI unresectable high-grade undifferentiated sarcoma, initially presenting urina...

Affinity chromatography, with rabbit anti-(human Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein) IgG, was applied to the isolation from normal human serum of protein, which is immunologically cross-reactive with the urinary glycoprotein. The antigen-antibody complex was dissociated with the use of sodium thiocyanate solution, a medium which fails to dissociate urinary Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein-antigen complex. Th...

skin test trials with standards s. mansoni antigen have been undertaken inn iran to determine the reliability of this method for the misdiagnosis of urinary bilharziasis and the factors which interfere with the results obtained, such as the presence of animal schistosomes and human infection with intestinal helminthiasis.five groups of people, namely, known infected caws of urinary bilharziasis...