AIM The present study was conducted to find the association among virulence determinants of verotoxic Escherichia coli (VTEC) isolated from cattle calf feces. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 216 cattle calf fecal samples were collected aseptically and processed under required conditions for the isolation of E. coli. The isolates were further subjected to multiplex polymerase chain reaction (...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common bacterial infections and are responsible for significant morbidity and health care costs worldwide. The main bacterial cause of uncomplicated UTI is Escherichia coli, which possesses numerous virulence factors (VFs). Many studies of the pathogenesis of E. coli UTI have centered on VF genes. Hence, the development of better molecular assa...

This study assessed the clinical characteristics, epidemiological trends, and changes associated with major pathogens causing gastrointestinal inflammation. We retrospectively analyzed test results of hospitalized patients who were administered a mPCR for diarrhea bacteria between June 2010 December 2019 at Cheonan Dankook University hospital in Republic Korea identified characteristics trends ...

OBJECTIVE In the present study, we evaluated the association of rs662799 variant of the APOA5 gene with Metabolic syndrome (MetS) in a sample of children and adolescents from Isfahan. METHODS This case control study comprised 50 cases of MetS and 50 controls. Mismatched polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (mPCR-RFLP) was used to genotype -1131T>C polymorphism. F...