BACKGROUND The present study aimed to analyze the prognostic value of sperm morphology , total motile sperm count (TMSC) and the number of motile sperm inseminated (NMSI) on the outcome of intrauterine insemination (IUI). MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross sectional study was carried out 445 women undergoing 820 IUI cycles. All of the patients underwent controlled ovarian hyper stimulation with...

BACKGROUND Clomiphene citrate (CC) an agonist and antagonist of estrogen, is the first line treatment in ovarian stimulation. Anti-estrogenic effect of CC in endometrial thickness and cervical mucus has negative effect on pregnancy rate. Letrozole is an Aromatase Inhibitor has been seen that has acceptable pregnancy rate compared to CC. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare the effic...

background and objectives: strains of shigella spp. can cause shigellosis, or bacillary dysentery.that is a public health problem worldwide. the aim of this study was to describe the population structure and genetic relatedness of multidrug resistant s. sonnei and s. flexneri isolated during a one year period from children with diarrhea in tehran, iran. materials and methods: a total of 70 shig...

121 women with polycystic ovarian syndrome and clomiphene citrate resistance underwent laparoscopic ovarian cautery, 63 patients were type i or typical pcos with ovarian volume >8ml and 58 patients were type ii pcos with ovarian volume <8ml. serum concentrations of luteinizing hormone (lh), follicular stimulating hormone (fsh), prolactin (prl), testosterone (t), and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfa...

background guiana extended-spectrum (ges-2) as one of the extended-spectrum β-lactamases (esbls), produced by pseudomonas aeruginosa, is able to compromise the effectiveness of imipenem and tends to be geographically limited. objectives the aim of this study was to detect the spread of ges-2 β-lactamase gene among esbl- producing p. aeruginosa isolates in a teaching hospital in kashan, iran. ma...

conclusions resistance to oxacillin and other antibiotics was high, and most of the isolates were found to be multi-drug resistance (mdr). plasmid analysis of representative s. aureus isolates also demonstrates the presence of a wide range of plasmid sizes, with no consistent relationship between plasmid profiles and resistance phenotypes. regular surveillance of hospital infections and monitor...

We report here the draft genome sequences of two community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) strains, C18 and C80, isolated from healthy children from day care centers. To our knowledge, these are the first draft genome sequences of CA-MRSA ST398/CC398/SccmecV and CA-MRSA ST5/CC5/SccmecIVa isolated from healthy children in Brazil.

In the USA, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) is endemic in hospitals, despite lack of carriage among healthy individuals. In Europe, however, hospital outbreaks are rare, but VREF carriage among healthy individuals and livestock is common. We used amplified fragment-length polymorphism analysis to genotype 120 VREF isolates associated with hospital outbreaks and 45 non-epidemic ...

A young man presented with primary multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. The institution of second-line regimes with insufficient efficacy due to clinical inexperience, unreliable sensitivity reports and the inavailability of second-line drugs led to the development of an organism that was resistant to ten anti-tuberculous drugs. Accurate sensitivity testing done in an overseas laboratory enabled ...