patients and methods 720 cases including 120 patients undergoing hemodialysis, and 600 patients with hiv infection were studied. all cases with positive results for hbsag were evaluated for the presence of anti-hdv antibodies. samples with anti-hdv positive results were subjected to nested pcr for hdv-rna confirmation, and sequenced for hdv genotype determination. results hbsag was found in 9 (...

Background: Due to their similar routes of transmission, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) co-infection occurs considerably. HBV infection progresses more rapidly in HIV-infected patients. Therefore, HBV vaccination of all non-immune HIV infected patients is recommended. On the other hand, HIV-infected subjects have suboptimal responses to HBV vaccine. In this study...

Evidence has shown that liver disease caused by hepatitis viruses can be more aggressive and severe in HIV infected subjects. Therefore, the present cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the seroprevalence of HDV infection among HIV/HBV co-infected clients in Shiraz, southwest Iran. In this study, 178 patients co-infected with HBV and HIV individuals were enrolled. The diagnosis of HIV infect...

Background: Infection with hepatitis B, C, and delta viruses (HBV/HCV/HDV) caused by mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is still a serious health problem worldwide. Coinfection HBV/HDV or HCV has been shown to accelerate the progression of chronic HBV infection, resulting in higher mortality. Objectives: The aim this study was evaluate prevalence anti-HCV, anti-HDV, anti-HIV antibodies mothers...

88 patients with drug addition were evaluated for hbsag, hbeag, anti-hbc, anti hiv syphlisis and anti-toxoplasma antibodies. 48 of them were male and 40 were female. the range of their ages was between 19 to 49 years and their addiction time were between 6 month to 30 years. the results show that 5.6% of the patients have hbsag in their blood serum and 40.9% of them have anti-hbe antibodies. al...

several nonpeptide small molecules were designed as potential inhibitors of hiv protease and their structures were constructed by computer-aided molecular modeling and docked iwo the active site of hiv protease. models of the complexes of inhibitors and the hiv protease were refined using nonbonded and h-bonding terms. the refined energy of selected complexes showed that the designed inhibitors...