emergence of resistance among pathogenic bacteria against available antibiotics is posing a great challenge to the current world. thus, there is a great need to discover novel antibiotics. traditional plants have been proved to be novel source in the search of antimicrobial compounds. the current study pertained to the susceptibilities of some clinically significant bacterial species to various...

background: in this study, the efficacy of nitazoxanide in the treatment of helicobacter pylori isolates, which were resistant to metronidazole, was examined.   methods: one hundred twenty two patients who underwent endoscopy examinations at kasra and laleh hospitals in tehran from november 2014 to july 2015 were enrolled. helicobacter pylori strains were isolated from the patients' endoscopy b...

results of total 60 s. aureus isolates, 51 (85%) were mrsa, and of 60 cons, 7 (11.66%) were mrcons. the results showed that the mic of chlorhexidine for all 120 isolates was 1-16 μg/ml. 15 (12.5%) isolates carried qaca/b gene, 26 (21.7%) carried qacc gene, and 38 (31.7%) carried smr gene. conclusions maintenance of mrsa isolates in the attendance of low amounts of antiseptics could result in th...

abstractpropionibacterium acnes is propounded as one of the significant factors in occurrence of acne. today, due to development of the antibiotic resistance, most of the acne treatments are faced with failure. in order to determine the antibiotic resistance of the p.acnes strains isolated from the patients with acne, this research has been carried out. 70 samples collected using microbial cult...

objective: this study aims to evaluate the antimicrobial activity, phytochemical studies and thin layer chromatography analysis of machine oil, hexane extract of seed oil and methanol extract of presscake& latex of jatropha curcas linn (family euphorbiaceae). materials and methods: j. curcas extracts were subjected to preliminary qualitative phytochemical screening to detect the major phytochem...

we consider of the antimicrobial activity on the ag nanoparticles(ag nps) aqueous solutions, which was prepared using a stabilizer, such as poly(n vinyl 2 pyrrolidone pvp , for staphylococcus aureus) s aureus and escherichia coli e coli by measuring the minimum inhibitory concentration mic . antimicrobial effect of ag nps for s aureus and e coli was investigated using disk diffusion method also...

abstract       background and objective: enterococci are relatively nonvirulent bacteria that rarely cause disease. antimicrobial treatment of enterococci is often challenging due to their antibiotic resistance. this study aimed to investigate the antibacterial activity of aqueous extract of garlic against enterococcal isolates.     methods: in this descriptive study, 120 enterococcus isolates ...

Objective: Infections are increasing caused by antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa day by day. For this reason, many researchers have tried to find new compounds as alternative antibiotics. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of yarrow extract, green tea and Ajowan  on Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Methods: Extraction  of Achillea, green tea and Ajowan was done with rotary. F...

Objective: Infections are increasing caused by antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa day by day. For this reason, many researchers have tried to find new compounds as alternative antibiotics. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of yarrow extract, green tea and Ajowan  on Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Methods: Extraction  of Achillea, green tea and Ajowan was done with rotary. F...

Antibiotic tolerance and persistence are often associated with treatment failure and relapse, yet are poorly characterized. In distinction from resistance, which is measured using the minimum inhibitory concentration metric, tolerance and persistence values are not currently evaluated in the clinical setting, and so are overlooked when a course of treatment is prescribed. In this article, we in...