A potential relationship between chronic infection with chlamydia pneumonia (CP) and atherosclerosis has been suggested by seroepidemiologic, pathologic and animal studies. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relation between antichlamydia antibody in patients with coronary events. This research was performed as a retrospective, case-control study on the blood samples from 87 i...

Background and purpose: Vaccination against hepatitis B is one of the most important ways to prevent this viral disease. However, some individuals vaccinated against hepatitis B do not show adequate defense. This study was designed to investigate the immune response towards this disease by assessing the level of hepatitis B antibody in vaccinated health care workers (HCWs) in north of Iran . M...

Introduction: This study examined the effect of adding selenium to levothyroxine on controlling  primary overt hypothyroidism and reducing the serum level of thyroid peroxidase antibody. Materials and Methods: This study was a double-blind, randomized clinical trial on individuals with primary autoimmune hypothyroidism. The patients were randomly divided into two intervention (I) and control (C...

Introduction: Vaccination with the major surface antigen of hepatitis B virus (HBsAg) induces anti-HBs antibody production and level of 10 IU/L is considered protective. It has been shown that the level of anti-HBs antibody does wane after vaccination. The aim of this study was to evaluate the persistence of anti-HBs antibodies in healthy Iranian children 10 years after primary vaccination. Me...

Introduction: Chlamydia trachomatis infection is a common pathogen in sexual transmitted disease, but most of female patients with this infection are asymptomatic. Sequealae include pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility and ectopic pregnancy. The aim of the study was to determine the association between Chlamydia trachomatis and tubal factor infertility, if significant. Methods: This prosp...