the genus teucrium (germander) belongs to the family lamiaceae, within the subfamily ajugoideae .teucrium polium l. (labiatae) has long been recognized in folk medicine in the treatment of many pathophysiological implications, such as gastrointestinal disorders, inflammations, diabetes and rheumatism. in this study antimicrobial activity of two crude extracts obtained from teucrium polium l. wa...

introduction: multi-drug resistant (mdr) p. aeruginosa is constantly increasing and causing severe issues in combatting widely spread health problems. the aim of this study was to assess colistin susceptibility in mdr p. aeruginosa isolates obtained from different infection sites. methods: ninety clinical isolates of p. aeruginosa were collected from different hospitals of the tabriz university...

objectives: staphylococcus aureus is an important cause of serious infection in both hospital and the community. methicillin-resistant s. aureus (mrsa) is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates with rapid development of resistance. there is a need for early and reliable detection of mrsa infection to direct antibiotic therapy, and more effectively control cross-infection. in this st...

In 2005, the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute published MIC interpretive criteria for 13 antimicrobial agents used for either therapy or prophylaxis of Neisseria meningitidis infections. The MIC method includes the use of lysed horse blood-supplemented Mueller-Hinton broth with incubation in 5% CO2 for 20 to 24 h. Since some clinical laboratories might prefer the option of disk diffu...

background aeromonas hydrophila cause one of the most important diseases in fishes and lead to economic losses, and may be contaminated human beings. objectives the current research aimed to investigate the anti-bacterial activity shown by the extracts prepared from different parts of olea europea, myrtus communis, thymus vulgaris, rosmarinuis officinalis, and achillea falcata that grow in syri...

We performed Etest, disk diffusion, and broth microdilution susceptibility testing of 2,171 clinical isolates of Candida spp. against posaconazole. By using provisional breakpoints for comparison purposes only, the categorical agreement between the agar-based methods and broth microdilution results ranged from 93 to 98%, with <1% very major errors. The essential agreement (within 2 well dilutio...