The indiscriminate and injudicious administration of antibiotics and irrational treatment of bovine mastitis with different antibiotics have invited serious complications like multiple drug resistance. The present paper reports the microbiological examination and reporting of a clinical case of mastitis in cow and its recommended therapeutic management with the selected broad spectrum antibioti...

thirty isolates of bacillus anthracis recovered from animal carcasses, soil and human in different localities in iran between 2007 and 2008. they were tested by standard disc diffusion susceptibility method for their resistant/ susceptibility to different kinds of antibiotics. according to american national committee of clinical laboratory standards (nccls) guidelines all isolates were sensi...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated that the administration of antibiotics to patients before performing diagnostic testing for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) can interfere with the accuracy of test results. Although a single-institution study has suggested that alpha-defensin maintains its concentration and sensitivity even after antibiotic treatment, this has not yet been demo...