October 2012

Detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) antibodies or DNA sequences from ostensibly healthy Iranian mothers and their neonates

  Cytomegalovirus (CMV) remains the most common cause of viral intrauterine infection. The objective of this research was to determine the prevalence of at-risk pregnancies for congenital cytomegalovirus transmission in a randomly selected pregnant women and their newborns. Enzyme Link Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) and real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) were utilized to screen the sera of mothers (n = 100)...

Author(s): Seyed Hamidreza Monavari, Hossein Keyvani, Bahman Abedi Kiasari, Hamidreza Mollaei, Mehdi Fazlalipour, Mostafa Salehi Vaziri and Fatemeh O. Fallah

October 2012

A retrospective study of clinical Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from four health facilities in South-West Nigeria

  Nigeria is currently one of the highest pneumococcal disease burdened countries not implementing routine pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) immunization and having limited clino-biological data on Streptococcus pneumoniae. This retrospective study provides phenotypic and genotypic data on 15 isolates of S. pneumoniae recovered from clinical samples provided by 75 bacteremia,...

Author(s): Iwalokun Bamidele A., Fowora, M., Akinloye Olubukola, Oluwadun Afolabi, Antonio M. and Adegbola, R. A.

October 2012

A histological study on the distribution of dermal collagen and elastic fibres in different regions of the body

  The aim of the study was to assess the unequal distributions of dermal collagen and elastic content in skin sections perpendicular to each other from different regions of the body. We collected 20 skin samples from 10 regions of a cadaver. From each region, 2 samples were collected in 2 directions which were perpendicular to each other. Histological slides were prepared and stained for collagen and elastic...

Author(s): Naveen Kumar, Pramod Kumar, Keerthana Prasad and B. Satheesha Nayak