background: seroepidemiologic studies indicate a high prevalence of herpes simplex virus (hsv) infection. this infection leads to ophthalmic, dermatologic, oral, neurologic, vaginal and cervical problems. different studies have been carried out to estimate the hsv seroprevalence in iran. combining the results of these studies would be useful for health policy-making.objective: this study aims t...

Ocular manifestations have been attributed to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), largely on the basis of seroepidemiologic data. Two patients who developed conjunctival disease as the presenting feature of EBV infection are reported, each confirmed by in situ hybridization of EBV genome in affected tissue biopsy specimens. Recognition of EBV-induced ocular disease as an initial presentation of clini...

Seroepidemiologic studies of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in humans have been limited by inadequate reagents. We have developed an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using three overlapping recombinant fragments of the human Pneumocystis major surface glycoprotein (MsgA, MsgB, and MsgC) for analysis of antibody responses in HIV-positive patients and healthy blood donors. HIV-positive pat...

The possibility in recent years that chronic infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae (CPn) may represent a risk factor for atherosclerosis or a mechanism of rapid progression of ischemic heart disease, or both, has attracted the attention of investigators and clinicians all over the world. After the first description of a seroepidemiologic association between antibody titers against the intracellul...

Enterovirus 71 (EV71) caused a large outbreak in Taiwan in 1998 with 78 deaths, and smaller outbreaks recurred in 2000 and 2001. The outbreak was recognized because of a large number of hand, foot, and mouth disease cases and the rapid deaths of children with the disease. Virologic and pathologic studies indicated that EV71 was the most important agent related to severe and fatal cases and that...

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical features and outcome of pneumococcal meningitis in Jamaican children. METHODS All patients admitted to the Bustamante Hospital for Children, during the period 1995-1999, who had pneumococcus isolated from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or pleocytosis in association with a blood culture isolate of pneumococcus were selected. Demographic, clinical and laboratory da...

We conducted a seroepidemiologic study to determine the prevalence of anti-human herpesvirus 8 antibodies in a renal transplant population at Hôtel-Dieu de Québec Hospital. Testing for immunoglobulin G antibodies against lytic and latent antigens was performed on serum samples from 150 renal transplant patients. Human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients with confirmed Kaposi's sarcoma were...

Q fever is a worldwide distributed zoonotic disease caused by Coxiella burnetii (Hoover et al., 1992; Maurin and Roult, 1999; Norlander, 2000), except New Zealand (Hilbink et al., 1993). Seroepidemiologic studies have reported different results for the seroprevalence of the bacterium in sheep (3 to 79 %) in Turkey (Özyer et al., 1990; Çetinkaya et al., 2000; Kalender, 2001; Kı lıc et al., 2005;...

C ELLS DERIVED FROM BURKITT’S LYMPHOMA have been successfully cultured and have been found to contain an apparently hitherto undiscovered member of the herpesvirus group ( herpes-type virus-HTV or Epstein-Barr virus-EBV ) .‘ Since this time, considerable interest has centered on seroepidemiologic surveys of various disease categories and healthy populations for antibodies against antigens assoc...