Hep2), anti-dsDNA antibody positive (Crithidia assay), anti-Ro-positive antibody and hypocomplementaemia (C3 0.45 g/l, C4 0.17 g/l)]. The patient received prednisolone, azathioprine and hydroxychloroquine. Two years later she developed an infectious meningo-encephalitis, and tragically serious cerebral complications have resulted in the development of a persistent neuro-vegetative state. A 14-y...

mycoplasma and ureaplasma species are the most serious contaminants of cell cultures and this remains one of the major problem encountered in biological research using cell cultures. the aim of this study was to investigate the rate of mycoplasma and a total of 100 different cell culture specimens including, r228, hela, vero, mdck, l20, rd and hep2 were collected. then the specimens were invest...

five of the patients with watery chronic diarrhea (one patient died), improved within 10 days of treatment. In Dakar, during the study describing ordinary and opportunistic enteropathogens associated with diarrhea in adults (5), stool samples were collected from five HIV-infected adults with watery chronic diarrhea. In all cases, heavy K. pneumoniae growth was observed on the primary culture me...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the most interesting respiratory viruses in world. This causes symptoms illnesses like influenza and imposes a heavy burden on medical services economy. However, studies RSV Vietnam are limited, while research has primarily been done before 2015. We collected clinical samples from severe acute infection (SARI) patients to screen for by real-time RT-PC...