Forty six patients, with acute pyelonephritis or cystitis and a significant colony count were treated with Norfloxacin 400mg, 12 hourly for 7 days. The prevalent organisms were E.Coli (83%) and Ps pyocyanea (11%). Cure rate after one week’s treatment was 98%. Nine patients (20%) had recurrence of infection one to six weeks after stopping the drug. Tolerance to the drug was excellent. Norfloxaci...

Our experience in the treatment of a 4-year-old boy with cyclic neutropenia who was admitted for urgent appendectomy is described. The postoperative course was uneventful with high daily doses of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and antimicrobial therapy. The purpose of this report is to highlight the importance of immediate appendectomy in neutropenic patients, wherein low absolute neutro...

Four pathogenic bacteria were treated by plasma activated water (PAW) with different duration. The inactivation was evaluated via colony forming unit (CFU) count and fluorescent spectroscope. After PAW treatment 20 min, Effective inactivation of S. mutans, S. aureus and E. coli was achieved, while weak inactivation effect to C. albicans. It was inferred that hydrogen peroxide and atomic oxygen ...

  Objective: Bioactive glass 45S5 is a surface reactive glass-ceramic biomaterial, developed in 1969. BAG 45S5 with particle size of 20-60 nm has the ability of bone regeneration, broad spectrum antibacterial effect, repairs and replaces diseased or damaged bone. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antibacterial activity and determine MIC and MBC values of nano-BAG45S5 on Streptococcus mu...

background because of varying reports, there is still need to investigate the impact of wrestling on hematological indices. objectives we investigated differences in the basic hematological indices in wrestlers compared to sedentary controls. patients and methods the blood samples containing anticoagulant were collected from 12 male elite wrestlers (age = 24 ± 1.2 years, weight = 76 ± 5 kg) wit...

The aim of this study was to model the growth, in a model system, of toxigenic strains of Bacillus cereus as a function of temperature, pH and water activity. Optical density (OD) values were transformed into numbers of colony-forming units (CFU) by the use of a 'calibrating' relation. The growth curves were then fitted to the Gompertz function which allowed the estimation of the lag-time (lamb...

The effects of mononuclear cells from nontransfused and transfused dogs on the growth of erythroid colonies (EC) from DLA-identical littermates were studied. To this purpose, marrow samples were cultured both before and after one to three transfusions from the DLA-identical littermate. Mononuclear cells obtained before transfusions and cocultured with autologous marrow or marrow from DLAidentic...