Development of a Quantitative Real-Time PCR Assay for Detection of in Brain Samples.

Background: Toxoplasmosis is a worldwide-distributed infection that can cause serious diseases, mainly in congenitally infected and immunodeficient individuals. PCR assays play an indispensable role in the detection of in different biological samples.

Methods: This study was conducted in the Parasitology Department at Pasteur Institute of Iran (Tehran) during 2016-2018.

Valproic Acid Inhibits Chronic Infection and Associated Brain Inflammation in Mice.

Individuals infected with Toxoplasma gondii are prone to psychobehavioral disorders, most notably schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Valproic acid reportedly inhibits the proliferation of T. gondii tachyzoites .

Uterine Leiomyoma and Reproductive Tract Infections Detected by Polymerase Chain Reaction.

Background And Objective: For nearly a century, it has been suspected that reproductive tract infections play an etio- logic role in uterine leiomyoma. However, no epidemiologic study of leiomyoma has used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to compare uterine tissues from cases and non-cases, and to investigate associations between uterine leiomyoma and infections detected by PCR.

Methods: In this case-control study, 92 leiomyoma tissues from cases, and 94 myometrial tissue from controls were screened by PCR for cytomegalovirus, s, herpes simplex virus-1, 2, and human papillomavirus typed as 16/18 or another strain.

Production of refolded Toxoplasma gondii recombinant SAG1-related sequence 3 (SRS3) and its use for serodiagnosis of human toxoplasmosis.

SAG1-related sequence 3 (SRS3) is one of the major Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoite surface antigens and has been shown to be potentially useful for the detection of toxoplasmosis. This protein is highly conformational due to the presence of six disulfide bonds. To achieve solubility and antigenicity, SRS3 depends on proper disulfide bond formation.

Antigenic proteins of Helicobacter pylori of potential diagnostic value.

Helicobacter pylori antigen was prepared from an isolate from a patient with a duodenal ulcer. Serum samples were obtained from culture-positive H. pylori infected patients with duodenal ulcers, gastric ulcers and gastritis (n=30).