Vitamin D serum level in participants with positive history of recurrent herpes labialis.

Aim: Vitamin D plays an important role in immune system regulation, also its deficiency is assumed to affect the patients' predisposition to viral diseases such as recurrent herpes labialis. In this cross-sectional study, we tried to compare the mean serum level of vitamin D in participants with a positive history of recurrent herpes labial lesions and healthy controls.

Materials And Methods: The vitamin D serum level of 43 participants with a positive history of recurrent herpes labial lesions who were referred to the Motahhari laboratory in Shiraz during 2020-2022, was compared with 42 healthy controls.

Drug repurposing against Candida auris: A systematic review.

Candida auris is a drug-resistant pathogen with several reported outbreaks. The treatment of C. auris infections is difficult due to a limited number of available antifungal drugs.

Comparison of Serum and Dietary Selenium Levels in Participants with a Positive History of Recurrent Herpes Lesions and Healthy Individuals.

Aim: In this study, we aimed to compare the level of serum and dietary selenium in participants with a positive history of recurrent herpes labial lesions and healthy controls.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study, conducted during 2020-2021, evaluated the selenium serum level of 40 participants with a positive history of recurrent herpes labial lesions who had referred to Motahhari Laboratory in Shiraz, compared with 38 healthy controls. The selenium level of the serum was assessed by an absorption device, Atomic Graphite Furnace Model FS-240-AAS, made by a US Company.

Follicular-Stimulating Hormone, Luteinizing Hormone, and Prolactin Serum Level in Patients with Oral Lichen Planus in Comparison to Healthy Population.

Materials And Methods: In this cross-sectional case control study, the serum level of LH, FSH, and prolactin of 40 women with lichen planus who have been referred to Shiraz Dental Faculty, Oral and Maxillofacial Disease Department during 2018-2019 has been evaluated in comparison to 40 healthy controls. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 18. Two-way ANOVA and Mann-Whitney test were used for data analysis.

Supplementation of ram's semen extender with Mito-TEMPO II: Quality evaluation and flow cytometry study of post-thawed spermatozoa.

Cryopreservation is an effective method to spread qualified ram spermatozoa for reproductive goals in different farms, but cryopreservation's shocks reduce sperm quality. This study investigated the efficacy of the new mitochondria-targeted antioxidant Mito-TEMPO on post-thawed quality of spermatozoa in sheep. Collected samples were divided into five groups and after dilution, received different doses of Mito-TEMPO (0, 0.

New weapons to fight a new enemy: A systematic review of drug combinations against the drug-resistant fungus Candida auris.

Candida auris is an emerging and drug-resistant pathogen. Drug combination is a promising approach against such pathogens. This study was conducted to provide an overview of all the studied drug combinations against C.

Environmental, climatic and host population risk factors of human cystic echinococcosis in southwest of Iran.

Background: Cystic echinococcosis (CE), a worldwide zoonotic disease, is affected by various biological and environmental factors. We investigated dog/livestock populations, climatic and environmental factors influencing the distribution of human CE cases in Fars province, southwest Iran.

Methods: We mapped the addresses of 266 hospitalised CE patients (2004-2014) and studied the effects of different temperature models, mean annual rainfall and humidity, number of frosty days, slope, latitude, land covers, close proximity to nomads travel routes, livestock and dog densities on the occurrence of CE using geographical information systems approach.

Identification of Species in Sheep and Vector Ticks Using PCR Method in Zabol, Eastern Iran.

Background: is a protozoal parasite that belongs to the phylum Apicomplexa. Theileriosis is an important tick-borne disease caused by various species of . Among these species, () is highly pathogenic, while other species such as make Subclinical and mild infections in small ruminant.