ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!-- saved from url=(0041)file://\\Nazi\e\sol-end\eng-maghale-2.htm --> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Professor Soltanzadeh</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <META content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name=GENERATOR> <META content=FrontPage.Editor.Document name=ProgId></HEAD> <BODY text=#000000 vLink=#ff0000 aLink=#0000ff link=#0000ff bgProperties=fixed bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=0 background="foriegnarticle2_files/bg4 copy.gif" topMargin=0> <DIV align=left> <TABLE height=61 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=706 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=bottom align=justify width=166 height=1><IMG height=140 src="foriegnarticle2_files/toppage3.gif" width=166 border=0></TD> <TD width=673 background=foriegnarticle2_files/bgew.gif height=1> <DIV align=left> <TABLE height=136 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0 width="613"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD colSpan=4 height=46 width="290"> <P align=center><IMG height=36 src="foriegnarticle2_files/Toptext7.gif" width=255 border=0></P></TD> <TD height=46 width="50"></TD> <TD height=46 width="45"></TD> <TD height=46 width="120"></TD> <TD colSpan=2 height=46 width="118"><IMG height=40 src="foriegnarticle2_files/inkscroll.gif" width=65 align=right border=0></TD></TR> <TR> <TD height=36 width="40"><a href="tamas.htm"><IMG height=30 src="foriegnarticle2_files/But8copy.gif" width=40 border=0></a></TD> <TD height=36 width="80"><a href="karhay.htm"><IMG height=30 src="foriegnarticle2_files/But7copy.gif" width=80 border=0></a></TD> <TD height=36 width="115"><a href="tarh.htm"><IMG height=30 src="foriegnarticle2_files/b1.gif" width=115 border=0></a></TD> <TD height=36 width="55"><a href="maghale.htm"><IMG height=30 src="foriegnarticle2_files/b2.gif" width=55 border=0></a></TD> <TD height=36 width="50"><a href="kongereh.htm"><IMG height=30 src="foriegnarticle2_files/But4copy.gif" width=50 border=0></a></TD> <TD height=36 width="45"><a href="talifat.htm"><IMG height=30 src="foriegnarticle2_files/But3copy.gif" width=45 border=0></a></TD> <TD height=36 width="120"><a href="moarefi.htm"><IMG height=30 src="foriegnarticle2_files/But1copy.gif" width=120 border=0></a></TD> <TD vAlign=bottom height=36 width="84"><a href="index.htm"><IMG height=30 src="foriegnarticle2_files/But10copy.gif" width=80 border=0></a>&nbsp;</TD> <TD height=36 width="34">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD></TR> <TR> <TD align=left colSpan=9 height=54 width="623"><BR> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">Molecular diagnosis of visceral herpes zoster</span></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></TD></TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=justify width=166 height=180><IMG height=174 src="foriegnarticle2_files/toppage1.gif" width=114 align=top border=0></TD> <TD width=673 height=180> <DIV align=left> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width=587> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="579"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none"> <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Arial"><br> Menno D de Jong, Jan F L weel, Marinus H J van Oers, Rene Boom, Pauline M E Wertheim-van Dillen</span></font></p> <p align="center">&nbsp;</p> <TR> <TD width="579"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none"> <span style="font-family: Arial">Patients with disseminated herpes zoster may present with severe abdominal pain that results from visceral involement of varicella-zoster-virus Infection. in the absence of cutaneous eruptions of herpes zoster, visceral herpes zoster is extremely difficult to diagnose. This diagnostic diffisulty has the potential to cause devastating delays in treatment.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none"> <span style="font-family: Arial">we report a case series of four patients with visceral herpes zoster in whom large concentrations of DNA from varicella zoster virus were detectable in blood by PCR before signs of infection appeared on the skin, thus enabling early diagnosis and treatment.</span></p> <hr> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none"> <font color="#008000"><span style="font-family: Arial">THE LANCENT . VOL 357. JUNE 30,2001</span></font></p> </TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV><BR> <DIV align=left> <TABLE height=67 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=599 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width=579 height=65> <P class=MsoNormal dir=rtl style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: -15px; DIRECTION: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><a href="index.htm">Home page</a>&nbsp; |&nbsp;<a href="eng-moarefi.htm">Introduction</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="eng-tarh.htm"> Research Studies</a>&nbsp; |&nbsp;<a href="eng-talifat.htm"> Editorships</a>&nbsp; |&nbsp;<a href="eng-translate.htm"> Translations</a>&nbsp; |&nbsp;<a href="eng-kongereh.htm"> Conferences</a>&nbsp; </P> <P class=MsoNormal dir=rtl style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: -15px; DIRECTION: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><a href="eng-tamas.htm">Contact Information</a>&nbsp; |&nbsp;<a href="eng-maghale.htm"> Articles</a>&nbsp; |&nbsp;<a href="news.htm"> Scientific meets &amp; events</a>&nbsp; |&nbsp;<a href="research.htm"> Research projects</a>&nbsp; |&nbsp; Theses</P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></BODY></HTML>