Background: The most common sexually transmitted diseases and the economic and social health problem throughout the world. However, vaccine coverage and antibiotic therapy and the development of programs to prevent and control major causes of acute and chronic diseases, pregnancy complications and infertility remains. Acute and chronic systemic viral infections can lead to infertility and perma...

hepatitis b virus (hbv) is the most prevalent viral infection and is among the leading causes of human liver diseases. nearly 360 millions of people are world widely infected with prolonged forms of hepatitis b including active and inactive chronic forms. chronic hepatitis b (chb) is associated with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) in patients suffering from congenital and/or acquir...

background bloodstream infection (bsi) is an important cause of mortality and morbidity and among the most common health-care associated infections. in this study we described the frequency of occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of nosocomial and community-acquired bsi isolates from a teaching hospital in tehran, iran. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was conduct...

objectives:prenatal infections are one of the fundamental causes of early puerperal complications in mothers and neonates. these infections are mostly due to colonized organisms in pregnant woman's genitor-urinary system. the aim of this study was to determine the incidence of streptococcus group b (gbs) colonization in parturient women and the rate of pathogen transmission to the newborn....

background and objective: this study was undertaken to assess the ability of standard urinalysis (ua) and hemocytometer white blood cell (wbc) counts for the diagnosis of urinary tract infection (uti) in patients with urinary symptoms. materials and methods: a total of 600 patients with symptoms of urinary tract infection were enrolled in this prospective study. standard ua, hemocytometer wbc c...

Image registration is a widely tackled research topic in the computer vision and the computer graphics fields. This problem aims to find an optimal transformation or correspondence between images acquired under different conditions. Recently, a new 3D image acquisition device based on the time-of-flight technology has appeared which obtains range images from real-time 3D video sequences. In thi...

B acterial cytoplasmic membranes consist primarily of amphipathic phospholipids with lesser amounts of glycolipids, providing a degree of protection from deleterious, toxic substances that is lacking in organisms having a single membrane. Almost all bacterial membranes are assembled in bilayers with embedded integral and associated peripheral membrane proteins. In the case of gram-negative bact...

conclusions the hai prevalence found in this study was lower than hai rates reported in some other studies from iran. the isolates showed high resistance to common antibiotics. guidelines for improving hai surveillance and stringent measures to reduce the prevalence of multidrug-resistant hais must be implemented to reduce the rate and the consequences of hais. results a total of 16,140 patient...

paecilomyces sp, is a saprophytic fungus which has rarely been associated with human disease. we report the first case of invasive subcutaneous infection caused by this fungus in a 78-year-old female from damghan, iran, with diabetes and chronic renal failure. a biopsy provided an initial diagnosis of the mold in tissue. multiple positive fungal cultures which were obtained from the biopsied ti...

background infections in critical care unit are high, and they are serious hospital problems. infections acquired during the hospital stay are generally called nosocomial infections, initially known as infections arising after 48 h of hospital admission. the mostfrequent nosocomial infections (urinary, respiratory, gastroenteritis and blood stream infection) were common in patients at hospital....