cross infections (cis) are considered as a major public health problem worldwide. they cause delay in recovery, increased mortality and morbidity. the purpose of this study is to report the incidence of cis in our teaching hospital during a 23-month period.in this descriptive cross-sectional study, 76766 patients from 2009 to 2011 admitted to 17 wards of imam reza hospital in mashhad were studi...

allergy to prosopis juliflora (mesquite) pollen is one of the common causes of respiratory allergy in tropical countries. mesquite is widely used as street trees in towns and ornamental shade trees in parks and gardens throughout arid and semiarid regions of iran. the inhalation of mesquite pollen and several species of amaranthus/chenopodiaceae family is the most important cause of allergic re...

abstractin the last step of desolvation method for preparation of albumin nanoparticles, glutaraldehyde (ga) is added to stabilize the newly formed nanoparticles. due to undesirable effects of ga, the objective of this study was to evaluate alternative methods of crosslinking including ultraviolet (uv) irradiation, adding of glucose and combination of both methods. the nanoparticles were prepar...

in this study, a cross-docking system is designed at strategic and tactical levels. for making the strategic decisions, a multi-objective nonlinear location allocation model for cross-docks is presented based on a distri-bution location allocation model by andreas klose and andreas drexl. the model is further developed to in-clude the whole supply chain members and the objective functions are w...

b ackground : a cinetobacter spp. emerged as an opportunistic pathogen for hospital-acquired infections. recently, increasing antibiotic resistance among acinetobacter spp. has worsened the problem. the aim of this study was to investigate  the  emerging  trend  of  infection  due  to acinetobacter  in ghaem university hospital, mashhad during 2006-2012. methods : the demographic data and infor...

background: along with the prospers of scientific production there is a need for measuring and evaluation of university’ s scientific productions by means of accepted international indices to make comparison between academic institutions. this study aims to evaluate the scientific production of faculty members affiliated to shahid beheshti university of medical sciences (sbmus) in web of scienc...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: providing free access to the latest research and more publishing channels, open access (oa) is hoped to decrease the south countries' information poverty and professional isolation. due to its particular importance, it is necessary to investigate how they exploit open access resources. methods: applying a cit...

background: the ultrasonography probes are cleaned by absorbent soft, dry cloth. this question arose whether linear and convex ultrasound probes coupling with gel could perform as a means for nosocomial infections transmission, and which method is economical and more efficient for cleaning the probes. this study was conducted to answer these questions. methods: one hundred – ninety two patients...