Xerostomia (dry mouth) is dryness of the mouth that may be associated with a change in the composition of saliva or decreased salivary secretion. Saliva lubricates and protects the oral tissues against irritating agents and behaves as a buffer system to protect the mouth. It has a basic role in keeping the physical-chemical integrity of the enamel (1). Consequently, decrease in saliva results i...

Background: The emergence of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii complicates the therapy of the related infections. Hospital isolates of A. baumannii are usually multidrug-resistant. The problem is compounded by increasing resistance to broad-spectrum antibiotics including carbapenems. Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and distribut...

♦Corresponding Author: Negar Azarpira, MD Organ Transplant Research Center, Pathology Department, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Tel: +98-711-647 4331 Email: [email protected] Introduction The presence of synchronous malignant tumors in patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the pharynx is not a rare event. This is important because it can decrease the overall su...

Liver diseases in children and adolescents are a significant arising public health issue should be surveyed from different dimensions (clinical para-clinical, psychological, socio-economic) diverse populations. Shiraz Transplant Center, Shiraz, Iran is the only center for pediatric liver transplantation its pre-operative evaluations. This provides unique valuable situation studying this vulnera...

BACKGROUND Women's empowerment was defined as their ability to achieve awareness and control their personal, social, economic and political forces aiming at taking measures in order to improve their lives. This study aimed to compare the empowerment of the married women in medical sciences university in social, economic and familial domains in three cities, IRAN. METHODS This was a descriptiv...

Medical imaging has a remarkable role in the practice of clinical medicine. This study intends to evaluate the knowledge of indications of five common medical imaging modalities and estimation of the imposed cost of their non-indicated requests among medical students who attend Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. We conducted across-sectional survey using a self-administered qu...

OBJECTIVES To assess compliance with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) guidelines of prophylactic antibiotic use in private hospitals in Shiraz, Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed using prospective data gathered from April to September 2010 in the surgical wards of all private hospitals in Shiraz. Administrative data, patient characteristics, and ant...

Background: Acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality especially in pediatric patients. Among important respiratory pathogens, adenovirus is a most prevalent cause of upper and lower respiratory tract infection. Objectives: The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of adenovirus infection in pediatric patients with respiratory sympt...

OBJECTIVE The main goal of this study was to assess differences in the vaginal flora of pregnant women and provide a detailed evaluation of vaginal swabs for the presence of group B streptococcus (GBS) and other organisms in three teaching hospitals in Shiraz, southwest of Iran. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In a cross-sectional study from April 2006 to March 2007, 310 women with vaginal delivery at t...

Background: The spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major concern in medical centers. These isolates are considered in serious infections and nosocomial outbreaks worldwide. Mupirocin is one of the most important antibiotics used topically for the treatment of various staphylococcal and streptococcal skin infections. We aimed to use a combination of phenotypic and ...