This study was planned to determine HIV seroprevalence among pulmonary tuberculosis patients, to characterize the isolated mycobacteria into typical and atypical strains and to evaluate the drug resistant pattern of mycobacterial isolates. The study aims to correlate multidrug resistance (MDR) and HIV seropositivity status in pulmonary tuberculosis patients. During the year 1994-1997, 750 pulmo...

Avicennia marina (Avicenniaceae) is a species of mangrove tree used for treatment of small pox lesions in Persian folk medicine. The antiviral activity of methanol, ethanol, water, chloroform and n-hexane extracts was evaluated against HIV-1 and HSV. Methanol extract had the highest antiviral activity and the most polar fraction of this extract (fraction D) inhibited HSV with TI and SI values o...

Avicennia marina (Avicenniaceae) is a species of mangrove tree used for treatment of small pox lesions in Persian folk medicine. The antiviral activity of methanol, ethanol, water, chloroform and n-hexane extracts was evaluated against HIV-1 and HSV. Methanol extract had the highest antiviral activity and the most polar fraction of this extract (fraction D) inhibited HSV with TI and SI values o...

GİRİŞ ve AMAÇ: İnsan İmmun Yetmezlik Virüsü (HIV) ölümcül seyredebilen AIDS (Acquried-immunodeficiency syndrome) olarak tanımlanan hastalığa neden olmaktadır. Bu çalışmada anti HIV/1-2 testi reaktif saptanan olguların doğrulama sonuçlarının incelenmesi, hatalı pozitif ELISA önüne geçebilmek için uygun eşik değerin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. YÖNTEM GEREÇLER: Çalışmamızda XXX Hastanesi Laboratuv...

Background & Objective: Toxoplasma gondii infection has public health importance and can lead to serious diseases in immunosuppressed patients, such as HIV cases. Appropriate control of T. gondii infection in HIV patients requires information about the prevalence of T. gondii antibodies and DNA in different population. In this study, we aimed to determine the prevalence of Toxo...

Aim: Students of all departments that serve patients during their education are in the risk group terms parenterally transmitted microorganisms. This study aims to evaluate knowledge level and serologic status healthcare students about viral hepatitis Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection.
 
 Methods: A sociodemographic questionnaire consisting 29 questions was applied 262 who ...

background: beside various factors for producing diabetes, it seems that chronic hepatitis c, hiv/hcv co-infection, and anti-retroviral treatment especially including protease inhibitors may predispose to diabetes. this study conducted to determine prevalence of diabetes in hiv and hcv patients. methods: the registries of 150 hcv patients, 50 hiv patients and 90 hiv/hcv co-infected patients in ...

background: gabaergic interneurons in the hippocampal ca1 area are mutually communicated by gap junctions (gjs) composed of connexin36 (cx36). we examined the role of cx36 in ca1 in manifestation of kindled seizures and hippocampal kindling in rats. methods: quinine, as the specific blocker of cx36, was injected into ca1, and kindled seizures severity was examined 10 min afterward. moreover, qu...