Background: Urinary tract infections are among the most common diseases in different communities and occur in all age groups. Failure to diagnose the disease correctly and promptly can cause complications such as damage to the urinary tract and kidney parenchyma, increased blood pressure, uremia. Also, in pregnant female patients It may lead to premature birth and even abortion. Therefore, corr...

Vibrio cholerae erupted as leading, unpredictable, potent pathogen to the global fear of reemergence with an ability to cause epidemics and antibiotic resistance. Newer molecular and more discriminatory procedures helping epidemiologists to understand evolution, spread and emergence of newer variants. To study prevalence of V. cholerae and to identify current circulating biotype, serotype, phag...

background: antibiotics prescribed in the presumptuous treatment of infections may be ineffective if causative pathogens acquire resistance to prescribed antibiotics. in the absence of patient follow ups for treatment outcome assessments, healthcare providers may be unaware of the effectiveness of antibiotic treatments they provide. in the empiric treatment of infections particularly, such situ...

UNLABELLED Infectious endocarditis (IE) represents a rare pathology in children, but with lethal potential. The goal of the therapy is fast and total eradication of the infection. AIMS To study particularities in diagnosis and treatment for infectious endocarditis in children. MATERIAL AND METHODS Children with infectious endocarditis hospitalized between January 2007 - February 2012 in the...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Cholera is endemic in Chandigarh and its surrounding areas. This retrospective study was undertaken over a period of nine years (January 1999-December 2007) from a tertiary care hospital in north India to understand the changing epidemiology aspects and antibiotic resistance patterns in Vibrio cholerae isolates. METHODS A total of 277 isolates of V. cholerae were includ...

In this study, we performed a bacteriological investigation on bovine respiratory infections. Additionally, the study evaluates the efficacy of florfenicol 30 µg produced by Rooyan Darou Company (test group) as compared to a similar drug produced by Aboraihan Company (control group). Sampling was carried out on 30 calves at two farms with 30-55% incidence rate of respiratory disorders. Nasophar...

The possibility of contamination of the blood cultures, particularly by Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci (CoNS), is one of the challenges in microbiology. We performed a study from 2010 to 2015 to evaluate the percentage of CoNS arising from probable contamination and the percentage of CoNS probably responsible for sepsis. Additionally, we analysed susceptibility to antibiotics of all found mic...

Contact lens wearers are at great risk of developing microbial keratitis because of incorrect usages and unhygienic maintenance of contact lenses. Therefore, the present study was planned to provide data that will be helpful in selecting the anti-microbial to cure microbial keratitis. One hundred bacterial isolates from conjunctiva of contact lenses wearer were isolated, identified and subjecte...