background: to assess the distribution and resistance of the pathogens responsible for septic arthritis and osteomyelitis over a 10 years period in children admitted to children's medical center hospital, tehran, iran. methods: microbiologic and clinical presentation reports from 145 cases of septic arthritis and osteomyelitis from march 1995 to february 2005 were retrospectively reviewed. resu...

background : few studies have focused on syndromic data to determine levels of alarm thresholds to detection of meningitis outbreaks. the purpose of this study was to determine threshold levels of meningitis outbreak in hamadan province, west of iran . methods : data on both confirmed and suspected cases of meningitis (fever and neurological symptom) form 21 march 2010 to 20 march 2012 were use...

meningitis is one of the hazardous and life threatening infections and is associated with mortality and morbidity. the aim of this study was to determine etiological agents of childhood bacterial meningitis. the culture, gram staining, agglutination and pcr assays were used to examine csf specimens from 277 patients with presumed bacterial meningitis for the occurrence of 4 most common infectio...

Abstract Introduction/Background Pasteurella multocida causes life-threatening zoonotic invasive infections in immunocompromised individuals and those at extremes of age (neonates elderly). Bacteremia, meningitis, endocarditis are serious complications that associated with up to 25-30% mortality. Case Description A 7-week-old ex-34-week preterm female infant presented a one-day history fever, i...

Background Febrile convulsion (FC) is the most common neurological problem in children which can occur in 2 to 5% of this population. The most important issue is to identify the cause of fever and rule out bacterial meningitis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association of aseptic meningitis due to Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine in admitted children with febrile convulsion. ...

In this study demographic, clinical, paraclinical, microbiological, and therapeutic features of patients with community-acquired acute bacterial meningitis admitted to a referral center for infectious diseases in Iran, have been evaluated. Medical records of adult (> 18 years) individuals with confirmed diagnosis of community-acquired bacterial meningitis during a 4-year period were retrospecti...