background and aims: infectious bursal disease (ibd) is an acute contagious viral disease of birds worldwide. the causative virus induces a persistent immune suppression following destroy b lymphocytes precursors in bursal lymphoid follicles. vaccination is the main strategy for prevention of the disease in commercial poultry industry. materials and methods: to produce a live vaccine against th...

background: many efforts have been done to find effective agents against resistant pathogens. cuminum cyminum l. (cumin) is an aromatic plant within the apiaceae family. it has a variety of purposes and demonstrates antimicrobial and antioxidant properties. this study evaluated the activity of c. cyminum extract and essential oil against bacterial isolates which cause urinary tract infection, i...

Introduction We present a case of 15 year-old boy diagnosed with Unspecified Personality and Beheavioral Disorder Due to Brain Damage from Human Herpes Virus-6 Encephalitis. Objectives To describe an Organic Behavioral secondary brain damage (HHV-6) Encephalitis in 11 childand review recent literature, order improve clinical practice. Methods Clinical report brief literature. A bibliographic re...

PURPOSE The study aims at detecting risk factors for developing peripheral neuropathy in Romanian HIV infected subjects. MATERIAL/METHODS retrospective study (january 1990-january 2009) who analyzed data from patients hospitalized in the Regional Center Craiova. We have compared 26 patients (group N) diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy  with 40 patients (group C) without neuropsychological s...

BACKGROUND This report describes a real-time PCR (Q-PCR) strategy to quantify Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) DNA in peripheral blood samples from Chagas disease patients targeted to conserved motifs within the repetitive satellite sequence. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The Q-PCR has a detection limit of 0.1 and 0.01 parasites/mL, with a dynamic range of 10(6) and 10(7) for Silvio X10 cl1 (T. ...

Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is frequently associated with a variety of autoimmune phenomenons. Mixed cryoglobulinemia (MC) appears in up to 50% of chronic HCV-infected patients. Cryoglobulins consist of immunoglobulin complexes precipitating in vitro when cooled below body temperature. In most cases IgM with rheumatoid factor activity is found in cryoprecipitates which could lead ...

932 CMAJ, May 17, 2011, 183(8) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors A29-year-old man presented with nonpainful white lesions on his tongue that he had recently noticed while brushing his teeth. Testing for oral candidal infection by his general practitioner was negative. The patient was feeling otherwise healthy and had no further complaints. Clinical examination showed bilatera...

BACKGROUND Periodontal disease is one of the most common and complex disease affecting mankind. Being multifactorial in etiology it encompasses a variety of infectious entities with various unique microbial constellations and immune responses. A bacteriologic cause alone seems insufficient in explaining several clinical features of the periodontal disease. Recent studies suggest that periodonta...