Granuloma annulare(GA) is an inflammatory benign cutaneous disease of unknown etiology that may manifest different clinical features. The most common presentation or classic form of the disease is manifested as flesh colored, annular grouped papules, commonly involving the hands and feet. Various skin injuries and infections have been reported to trigger GA, including insect bites, warts,...

colorectal cancer is the most common gastrointestinal cancer and the second leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. the purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of epstein-barr virus in patients with colorectal carcinomas and polyps in comparison with healthy people. in this analytical  case-control study, 15 patients with colorectal cancer and 20 patients with colorectal polyp ...

background: oral lichen planus (olp) is a chronic immunologic disease. the etiology of olp is unknown, viral antigens (for example epstein-bar virus) have been proposed as etiologic agents. olp may get transformation to malignancy so re search on the presence of ebv in olp lesions seems to be necessary. the aim of this study was to ascertain if ebv acted as etiologic factor in pathogenesis of o...

The viral infections with greatest impact on the renal transplant recipient are those due to cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, and the two hepatitis viruses, hepatitis B and C. All of these are modulated by the administered immunosuppressive therapy, and all have both direct and indirect effects on the transplant patient. The direct effects are the infectious disease clinical syndromes that ...

OBJECTIVE Infections with herpes viruses have been implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. We tested the hypothesis that vital exhaustion (VE) is associated with multiple herpesvirus infections, such as herpes simplex virus, varicella-zoster virus, Epstein-Barr virus, and cytomegalovirus, and with an increase in pathogen burden (ie, the aggregated seropositivity to immunoglobulin G a...

BACKGROUND Diarrhea is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among HIV-infected patients worldwide. OBJECTIVE We sought to determine the frequency of viral gastrointestinal infections among Brazilian HIV-infected patients with diarrhea. METHODS A collection of 90 fecal specimens from HIV-infected individuals with diarrhea, previously tested for the presence of bacteria and parasite was a...

Currently HIV infection in Kazakhstan is mainly spread among population groups with risk taking behavior (injection drug users - IDUs, sex workers SWs). The lesions and fatalities patients are caused by complications, i.e. the development of opportunistic infections secondary diseases. Timely diagnosis these conditions determines success treatment life expectancy patients. Among superinfections...

Background: environmental factors may play a role in colon cancer. In this view, several studies investigated tumor samples for the presence of various viral DNA with conflictiong results.  The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) and Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) in patients with colorectal carcinomas. Materials and methods: In this  study, we co...