Precise identification of microorganisms involved in candidiasis together with antifungal susceptibility evaluation could help clinicians to prescribe appropriate medicine, especially in patients with critical conditions. The present study has been conducted to evaluate discriminatory power of Integral System Yeast Plus (ISYP) for rapid identification and determination of antifungal susceptibil...

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the serotypes and antimicrobial susceptibility of Shigella spp. in Isfahan, (Iran) from 2010 to 2015.   Methods: This retrospective study was conducted on Shigella isolates in four tertiary care hospitals. The process of bacterial isolation and determination of susceptibility was performed by standard microbiological guidelines. The pat...

background and objectives: there is increasing emergence of multidrug resistant pseudomonas aeruginosa (mdrpa) strains and drug resistance is positively-correlated with biofilm-forming ability. since about 10% of p. aeruginosa genome is controlled by quorum sensing (qs), alteration in its antibiotic susceptibility by targeting qs was the focus of the present study. materials and methods : one d...

every year, a considerable portion of the national budget specifies to reconstruct the properties which have been destroyed during natural disasters in iran. recognition of vulnerable sites to natural disasters can reduce the probable damages. the most important point in designing railway tracks is to join stations in the least possible time. so, the railway track is meant to cross lots of vall...

although typically small in terms of their spatial footprint, landslide hazards are relativelyfrequent in northern iran. we assess landslide susceptibility for the nearly 20.000 km2 large study area of the urmia lake basin which is dominated by agricultural land use but includes the major settlements areas of the east azerbaijan province, iran. landslide factors are established in form of gis d...

"Heteroresistance" describes a phenomenon where subpopulations of seemingly isogenic bacteria exhibit a range of susceptibilities to a particular antibiotic. Unfortunately, a lack of standard methods to determine heteroresistance has led to inappropriate use of this term. Heteroresistance has been recognized since at least 1947 and occurs in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Its clinica...