Aim: Tunneled hemodialysis catheters are frequently used for patients and provide temporary venous access. However, it causes complications such as catheter-related infection, pneumothorax hematoma. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the infections, catheter patency rates that developed after use of tunnel connected three different access routes. Material Methods: A total 145 who underwent due...

Canine Babesiosis is an important worldwide, tick-born disease caused by apicomplexan hemoparasitic from genus Babesia. The aim of the present survey was to identify the current state of Babesia infection in urban and rural dogs in Ahvaz district, southwest of Iran. For this reason, 200 rural dogs from 5 village around Ahvaz and 200 urban dogs (stratified random sampling) referred to the veteri...

with an estimated 170 million infected individuals, hepatitis c virus (hcv) has a major impact on public health. frequency of hcv infection was studied in 785 referred patients to a private laboratory, tehran, iran from april 2003 until march 2006 by pcr method. analyzed results revealed infection rate was 40.27%, 35.51% and 33.09% in the first, second and third year, respectively. frequency ra...

Burned patients are at risk of acquiring infection because of their destroyed skin barrier, suppression of immunity, prolonged hospitalization, and invasive therapeutic and diagnostic procedures. Most of the studies on infections in burned patients are focused on burn wound infections, while nosocomial device-associated infections in this patient group are not described well. Therefore, the aim...

Background: A decreased rate of successful helicobacter pylori (H.pylori) infection treatment has revealed serious demand for more effective regimens to eradicate infection. Therefore, probiotics have recently been considered to increase the rate of antibiotic regimens efficacy in H. pylori infections. In current randomized controlled trial, we evaluated the effect of double strain probiotic co...

introduction: surgical site infection is one of the most common nosocomial infections and today it is believed that this infection caused by bacterias which penetrate into the wound during operation. surgery team members who have much contact with surgical site tissues, can control this infection by observing infection control principles. this study was done in order to determine performance ra...

Hydatidosis or hydatide cyst,caused by the larvae of Echinoconccus granulosus,is one of the most serious tapeworm cestodes infection occuring in man and in livestock in Iran.the present study was carried out in order to determine the rate of infection in shahriar Area,in which no study has been conducted regarding this enfection.1052 human blood sample from different age groups were collected b...