Two hundred twenty-four immune and non-immune adults were systematically assigned to receive a single dose of Nakayama strain JEVAC in one of four study "arms": 0.1 ml ID, 0.2 ml ID (injection of 0.1 ml at two sites), 0.3 ml ID (injection of 0.1 ml at three sites), or 1.0 ml SC. Immune responses after this single dose (in many cases "booster") was assumed to reflect immune responses of a primar...

Objectives: The demonstration of the serological test importance in the diagnosis of the Congenital Toxoplasmosis. The Method: The serological test was performed through the micro enzymatic immunology technique, on a lot of 87, new born suckling babies. Along with the laboratory investigations the babies were also clinical, oftalmological and neuron-imagistic examined. Results: The diagnosis of...

Decreased responses to hepatitis B vaccine have been associated with some host conditions including obesity. Susceptible non-responders to a primary three-dose vaccine series should be revaccinated. Those who maintain a non-responder condition after revaccination with three vaccine doses are unlikely to develop protection using more doses. This is a description of an obese woman who received si...

In a previous paper we showed that the yeast Pichia pastoris X-33 grown in parboiled rice effluent supplemented with glycerol byproduct from the biodiesel industry improved the quality of the effluent. In this paper we show the validation of this yeast (PPE) as probiotic for broilers. Its effect on feed efficiency and immunomodulation was compared with the same yeast grown in yeast peptone dext...

Q fever has been considered non-existing in Brazil where reports of clinical cases still cannot be found. This case-series of 16 patients is a result of a systematic search for such illness by means of clinical and serologic criteria. Serologic testing was performed by the indirect microimmunofluorescence technique using phase I/II C. burnetii antigens. Influenza-like syndrome was the most freq...

Background Having an autoimmune disease was exclusion criterion in the efficacy and safety phase studies of vaccines against Covid-19 (1-2). In Turkey vaccination first started with inactivated CoronaVac, then mRNA BNT162b2 vaccine. Although there are on vaccine adults inflammatory rheumatic (IRD), still many unknowns (3-4). Objectives Primary outcome this study is to determine seroconversion (...

The study was designed to investigate and exclude the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among blood donors, which might be transmitted to the patients. The study included 11,815 blood donors. All samples were screened throughout the study period of two years. HIV-1 and HIV-2 were determined by using enzyme immunoassay and subsequently confirmed by HIV Western blot assay. Worl...