the plant salvadora persica is used for oral hygiene in many parts of the world. it has been suggested that it has antibacterial properties, in addition to its ability to mechanically remove plaques. the aim of this study was to assess the antimicrobial activity of the herbal product persica containing salvadora persica against periodontopathogens porphyromonas gingivalis and aggregatibacter ac...

background and objectives: staphylococcus aureus ( s. aureus ) nasal carriage may be responsible for some serious infections in hemodialyzed patients. the main target of this study was to estimate the prevalence of s. aureus nasal carriage in hemodialysis outpatients and medical staff in hemodialysis centers specifically in fez region. the second target is to identify the risks of colonization,...

background and objectives: dermatophytes possess a wide array of virulence factors and various antifungal susceptibility patterns which influence their pathogenesis in humans and animals. the aim of this study was to evaluate antifungal suscep- tibility and keratinase and proteinase activity of 49 dermatophyte strains from the genera microsporum , trichophyton and epidermophyton which were isol...

background : the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of metronidazole and albendazole against clinical isolates of giardia lamblia in vitro. methods : from all human samples of containing cysts, 10 isolates were successfully excysted in vitro . trophozites viability was assessed by eosine 0.1% and cultured axenically in tyi-s-33 modified medium supplemented with heat inactivate...

results the sequence analysis of the isolate confirmed as c. glabrata and deposited on ncbi genbank under the accession number no. kt763084-kt763123. the geometric mean mics against all the tested strains were as follows, in increasing order: casp (0.17 g/ml), vcz (0.67 g/ml), amb (1.1 g/ml), itz (1.82 g/ml), ktz (1.85 g/ml), and fcz (6.7 g/ml). the resistance rates of the isolates to casp, fcz...

background nosocomial infections including infections of surgical wounds, urinary tract and lower respiratory tract infections are a major public health problem in hospitals worldwide. bacterial infections in the lower respiratory tract especially due to gram negative bacilli, has remained a major complication of tracheal intubation in patients requiring ventilator equipments. objectives the ai...

salmonellosis is a very important disease of avian species because of its huge economic impact, worldwide distribution and difficulty posed in its control. fowl typhoid and pullorum disease, is caused by salmonella enterica subsp enterica serovar gallinarum biovar gallinarum and pullorum. the purpose of this study was to investigate the biochemical characteristics and antimicrobial susceptibil...

terminal drought stress during grain filling period has recently become more common in the semiarid mediterranean regions, where wheat (triticum aestivum) is grown as an important winter cereal crop. the objective of this experiment was to study the effect of terminal drought stress on grain yield, gas exchange variables, and some physiological traits of nine bread wheat cultivars. an experimen...

magnetic susceptibility has been extensively used to determine the magnetic properties of rocks for different applications, such as hydrocarbon or mineral explorations. this magnetic quantity can be directly measured in an accurate but time-consuming operation, or it can be mathematically approximated using a reliable procedure to achieve a desired accuracy. the poisson theory is one of the mos...

background: non-hodgkin lymphoma (nhl) includes a wide range of diseases with different clinical and biological features. nhl is usually presented as localized or generalized lymphadenopathy. it has been suggested that the hla class i and ii are associated with susceptibility to nhl. different ethnic groups have been found to have different hla class i and ii alleles which affect nhl. objective...