A recent paper (Pereira, et al., 1966) reported the isolation in Britain of several strains of an antibiotic-resistant infective agent that caused unusual cytopathic effects when inoculated into cell cultures. The new agent was evidently recoverable from the respiratory tract in certain patients, mostly young children, with illnesses of varying severity but with fever and respiratory symptoms a...

transplanted and hemodialysis patients are frequently affected by parasitic diseases such as cryptosporidiosis. cryptosporidium is a parasite causing self-limited diarrhea and enteritis in healthy individuals. the presence of cryptosporidium infection was studied in three groups including 87 renal transplant patients, 103 hemodialysis patients, and 60 healthy individuals as the control group. t...

definitive diagnosis of brucellosis is made by isolation of the causative agents, which is a timeconsumingprocedure. to evaluate the efficacy of dot-elisa for detecting brucellae in clinical samples, 94different specimens taken from animal origin were cultured on brucella selective culture media and colonieswere identified biochemically. the specimens were also examined after centrifugation by ...

conclusions current study revealed that a. flavus was the most common isolated pathogen. moreover, a. fumigatus was the second common isolated pathogen in patients with ifs. additionally, the hospital construction was an important environmental risk factor for acquisition of infection in patients with hematological malignancy. the most common season for ifs incidence was summer. additionally, t...

Determining the precise position of the root of the eukaryote evolutionary tree is very important for understanding cell evolution [1], but has been a major challenge, because of systematic biases in gene sequence trees [2,3]. However, one can deduce the position indirectly, by using derived genic properties to exclude the possibility that the root lies within clades that share them [4]. A deri...