In view of the high circulation of migratory birds and the environmental and climatic conditions which favor the proliferation of arthropods, the Brazilian Pantanal is susceptible to circulation of arboviruses. However, the amount of data concerning arbovirus vectors in this area is scarce; therefore the aim of this study was to conduct a preliminary investigation of Culicidae species in the Nh...

Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) causes respiratory disease in chickens all over the world. Infectious bronchitis virus has many serotypes that do not confer cross protection against each other. The current study was designed to know which IBV types were circulating in Jordanian broiler chickens. Tracheal swabs from 175 broiler flocks at the acute phase of respiratory disease were collected. T...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the most important virus respiratory pathogens in infants and young children. A rapid and sensitive diagnosis is essential to focus any outbreak due to this virus. A real-time RT-PCR method was designed using a primer/probe pair from the F gene. Simultaneously with nested RT-PCR and antigen ELISA, 71 consecutive specimens from hospitalized children wi...

osteosarcoma is a relatively uncommon malignancy however, it is the most common form of primary malignant bone tumors in human. diagnosis and prognosis of patients with osteosarcoma is limited to clinico-radiopathological parameters, whereas molecular markers of tumor aggression have been poorly identified. survivin, an inhibitor of apoptosis (iap), is unique for its expression in human tumors ...

abstract background and aim: survivin is a new member of inhibitor of apoptosis protein family (iap) that plays an important role in the regulation of cell cycle and inhibition of apoptosis. distinct expression of this gene in tumoral cells versus normal cells introduces it as the fourth major transcriptome in cancers. thyroid carcinoma is the most common endocrine malignancy. considering the h...

BACKGROUND Chandipura virus (CHPV), a member of family Rhabdoviridae was attributed to an explosive outbreak of acute encephalitis in children in Andhra Pradesh, India in 2003 and a small outbreak among tribal children from Gujarat, Western India in 2004. The case-fatality rate ranged from 55-75%. Considering the rapid progression of the disease and high mortality, a highly sensitive method for...

AIM Clinical histopathological and molecular diagnosis of classical swine fever disease in pigs of Mizoram. MATERIALS AND METHODS Totally, 31 clinically suspected pigs from 6 districts of Mizoram were examined, and clinical symptoms were recorded. Detailed post mortem examination of all the 31 dead animals was conducted, and gross changes were recorded. Tissue samples were collected for histo...

DNA products generated from a region of the measles virus genome by three RNA reverse transcription and amplification methods were cloned and sequenced, and the results were compared in order to evaluate the methods' relative fidelities. The methods were: (i) reverse transcription followed by a nested polymerase chain reaction (RT-nPCR), (ii) a combined RT-PCR using rTth polymerase and (iii) nu...

Water samples were concentrated by the modified adsorption-elution technique followed by speedVac reconcentration of the filter eluates. Reverse transcriptase-nested polymerase chain reaction (RT-nested PCR) was used to detect rotavirus RNA in concentrates of the water. The detection limit of the rotavirus determined by RT-nested PCR alone was about 1.67 plaque forming units (PFU) per RT-PCR as...