background: resistance patterns among nosocomial bacterial pathogens in hospitals may vary widely from country to coun­try at any given point and within the same country over time. acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most important bacte­rium causes hospital acquired infections. therefore, surveillance of antibiotic resistance of a. baumannii is necessary, espe­cially in our country which the...

background and objective: urinary tract infections (utis) are the most common infections in renal transplant recipients and are considered a potential cause of bacteremia, sepsis, and affects graft outcomes. the aim of the present study was to determine the incidence of uti among renal transplant recipients and investigation of antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of causative agents. materials...

background: candida parapsilosis is an emergent agent of invasive fungal infections. this yeast is one of the five most widespread yeasts concerned in invasive candidiasis. c. parapsilosis stands out as the second most common yeast species isolated from patients with bloodstream infections especially in neonates with catheter. recently several reports suggested that its reduced susceptibility t...

background bloodstream infection (bsi) is an important cause of mortality and morbidity and among the most common health-care associated infections. in this study we described the frequency of occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of nosocomial and community-acquired bsi isolates from a teaching hospital in tehran, iran. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was conduct...

conclusions the polymorphism and promoter methylation of rassf1a may be a significant factor in hcc, and can be an indicator for poor prognosis in patients with hcc. background the functional and prognostic significance of ras association domain family 1a gene (rassf1a) on hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) has not been well characterized. objectives this study aimed to investigate the association ...

conclusions: it can be concluded that most of a. baumannii isolates can form biofilm in microtiter plate and tube. the results also verified that most of these isolates were resistant to ciprofloxacin and imipenem. results: results showed that in tube method under shaking, 22% of clinical isolates were strong biofilm producers while 23% of them were not able to form biofilms. in this experiment...

background: although  candida albicans  remains the most common fungal isolate from clinical specimens, many studies have detected a shift towards non-albicans  candida species. despite worrying clinical pictures associated with latter species , there is little information regarding its susceptibility patterns against currently available antifungal agents, with only a small number of strains ha...

conclusions candida strains isolated from newborns, elderly patients, and intensive care patients, identified and isolates from blood cultures, should be studied for antifungal susceptibility for management of the treatment. our university hospital is a recently opened center and these are the first data of our center. gradually, as the number of patients increases, this data will be evaluated ...

background candiduria is one of the most common symptoms of urinary tract infections caused by several species of candida spp. several antifungals are available to treat such candidal infections. during the last decades, resistance to antifungal especially to non-albicans species has increased. objectives the present study aimed to evaluate the susceptibility to antifungal drugs of candida spec...

patients and methods in this retrospective study, all urine samples of children hospitalized with urinary tract infection (288 patients, aged 1mon -14.5 years) during october 2008 to may 2011 were included in the study. after bacteria were identified by standard methods, antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed using a panel of antimicrobial agents. results the most of patients were g...