| lack of association of mouse mammary tumor virus-like sequences in iranian breast cancer patients. | objective: the present study aimed to detect mouse mammary tumor virus (mmtv)-like sequences in iranian breast cancer patients in the city of shiraz, located in southwest iran. subjects and methods: we searched for two mmtv genetic regions in the peripheral blood leukocytes of 300 women with breast cancer, 300 age-matched healthy control subjects, and 50 breast tumor tissues. two regions of mmtv, 660 bp and 250 bp, were searched by nested polymerase chain reactions. results: none of the above tw ... | 2011 | 22213781 |
| molecular characterization of leishmania spp. in reservoir hosts in endemic foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in iran. | zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is an expanding disease and a public health issue in iran. in the present study, rate of natural infection of rodent populations with leishmania was investigated in six endemic foci including 28 villages in golestan, esfahan, yazd, fars, khuzestan and ilam provinces. a total of 593 rodents were captured and identified as rhombomys opimus (n = 325), meriones libycus (n = 171), meriones persicus (n = 27), tatera indica (n = 37), nesokia indica (n = 12), rattu ... | 2013 | 23951928 |