BACKGROUND The purposes of this study were to investigate the clinical outcomes of enterococcal bacteriuria and to determine whether current management is adherent to Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines. METHODS We conducted a retrospective medical record review of patients from 2 academic teaching hospitals for 3 months (September 1 through November 30, 2009). Patients were cla...

persian-hebrew texts are written in hebrew orthography. their records go back to the period before the essential books about drugs’ nature, the first persian text in arabic orthography by abu mansour mowaffaq herawi which was inscribed by assadi tousi in 447 a.h. therefore, it seems very important to scrutinize such texts for the study of persian language. one of the most important samples of p...

These comparative studies on the aggregation behaviour of Ac-(Z)-∆Abu-NMe2 and Ac-L-AbuNMe2 in carbon tetrachloride were performed by the analysis of their FTIR spectra and by theoretical calculations. The percentage of the monomeric form (α) decreased as concentration increased and this occurred to a higher degree for the (Z)-∆Abu derivative than for its saturated analogue. The dimerization co...

Immunosuppressant peptide immunocortin for the first time was described in 1993. It corresponds to residues 11-20 of human Ig heavy chain (conserved motif of VH domain). There are no data about production of immunocortin by proteolysis of Ig in vivo. Synthetic immunocortin in concentration ~ 10-9 M suppresses phagocytosis in peritoneal macrophages, ConA-dependent blast transformation of rat lym...

The current study is mainly concerned to shed light on an obscured subject in our literary heritage that contemporary culture has not yet recognized. It the of disabled people and those with special needs among ancient Arab writers researchers, through a book was written by Abu Uthman Amr bin Bahr Al-Jahiz (died 255 AH), under title (The Lepers, Lames, Blinds Squintings) which addressed these o...

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Abu-al-Hassan, Ala-a`Ddeen Ali Ibn Abe`l-Hazm Ibn a`Nnafees al-Qurashi a`Ddimashqi (607-687 A.H.) was born in Damascus, wherein he grew up and was occupied studying sciences as syntax, jurisprudence, medicine, theology, tradition, logic, etc. His most well known masters in medicine were Muhadhdhib a`Ddeen a`Ddakhwar and Umran Israeli. After completing his studies, he left Damascus for Cairo, wh...