background: antibiotics can be life saving if they are used correctly, and can have unwanted side effects specially resistance with incorrect use. unfortunately in fear of no response, physicians use broad spectrum antibiotics meticulously. in this drug utilization evaluation (due), improper use of vancomycin and five broad-spectrum antibiotics are studied to find faults and solution for this p...

conclusions findings reveal a significant degree of prescription errors, emphasizing the need for stringent surveillance. results a total of 227 case notes were reviewed, 129 (56.8%) of which belonged to male patients. no medication was prescribed for 13 patients, whereas 697 drug prescriptions (excluding intravenous fluids) were given for 214 patients, equaling 3.25 drugs/patient; antibiotics ...

objectives in this study, we explored a physical method of converting drug-resistant bacteria to drug-sensitive ones. materials and methods this is an in vitro case-control study, performed at the ionizing and non-ionizing radiation protection research center (inirprc), shiraz university of medical sciences (sums), shiraz, iran in 2014. all experiments were carried out using gram-negative bacte...

antibiotic resistance is an important problem in antibiotic treatment of infections, particularly in hospitals. tomatidine is a plant secondary metabolite with antimicrobial and antifungal effects. this study examined the possible synergistic effect tomatidine with several antibiotics against standard and clinical strains of staphylococcus aureus, enterococcus faecalis, pseudomonas aeruginosa a...

this study investigated the occurrence and removal of 12 antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin, levofloxacin, norfloxacin, nalidixic acid, azithromycin, clarithromycin, roxithromycin, lincomycin, novobiocin, sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim) at four sewage treatment plants (stps): two stps in kyoto, japan and two stps in beijing, china. the stps differed in design and operation conditions, uti...

background: to determine the prevalence of typhoidal and non-typhoidal salmonella species in hamadan city, west of iarn and detection of antibiotic susceptibility patterns of isolates. methods: in a cross-sectional descriptive study, 296 salmonella species including 192 strains of typhoidal salmonella and 104 strains of non- typhoidal salmonella were examined for serotyping and determining of a...

materials and methods samples were collected from six different farms and milk factories in iran, and were tested by beta-star and cylinder-plate methods. results among 992 raw milk samples, 236 positive samples, 9 suspected and 747 negative samples in respond to beta-star test and among 236 samples, which had positive responses to beta-star test, 28 positive, 0 suspected and 208 negative resul...

the nosocomial infections, caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria, are the most important cause of mortality throughout the world. one important mechanism against beta-lactam antibiotics is the production of beta-lactamases. enterobacteriaceae and non-fermentative bacteria, like pseudomonas aeruginosa and acinetobacter baumannnii may produce these enzymes. currently, there is no vaccine to pre...