infectious diseases are responsible for thousands of worldwide early death .many commercial antibiotics have been used to control human's infectious diseases all over the world. calotropis procera linn a wild growing plant of asclepiadaecae family is known to possess multifarious medicinal properties. total 80 non repetitive clinical e. coli strains recovered during 7 month, and were screened f...

background studies revealed that severity of atopic dermatitis correlates with colonization by s.aureus and the density of bacteria and antibiotic resistance is one of the factors in s.aureus recolonization. objectives we aimed to determine the pattern of colonization with different subtypes of s.aureus in patients with atopic dermatitis and its correlation with scorad (scoring atopic dermatiti...

this study investigated the antibacterial resistance among enterococci isolated in tehran hospitals. a total of 277 enterococcus faecalis, 123 enterococcus faecium and 13 isolates of other enterococcal strains were collected from 1 march 2002 to 15 april 2004 from three teaching hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences. the minimum inhibitory concentrations (mic) of tested antibiotics...

the present study was conducted to investigate antimicrobial resistant pattern of escherichia coli (e. coli) strains isolated from clinical specimens of jordanian pediatric patients during the period from january to december 2008. a total of 444 e. coli strains were isolated from clinical specimens and tested for their susceptibility to different antimicrobial drugs. overall, high resistance ra...

background and objectives: carbapenem resistant a. baumannii is an emerging cause of nosocomial infections. the aims of this study were identification of the most prevalent of carbapenem resistant genes, molecular typing and antimicrobial evaluation of a.baumannii in intensive care units. materials and methods: two hundred and six a. baumannii were isolated from tracheal tube discharge of hospi...

background and objectives: infection with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (vre) has caused a therapeutic problem. vana and vanb resistant types are the predominant phenotypes among vancomycin resistant enetrococci. transposon 1546 (tn1546) harboring the vana gene cluster, plays an important role in the horizontal transfer of vana gene. in this study, we examined the phenotypic and genotypic di...

objective: the study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of laparoscopic ovarian drilling (lod) on ovulation and restoration of menstrual cycles andpregnancy.  materials and m ethods : this cross sectional study was conducted on 81 consecutive polycystic ovarian syndrome (pco) patients whom were referred to  avesina infertility clinic during 2003-2006. exclusion criteria were tubal and male fac...

conclusions frequency of s. epidermidis was significantly lower, compared to other studies. presence rate of meca and susceptibility to linezolid and vancomycin did not show significant differences with other investigations, while resistant to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole was significantly lower compared to other investigations, and resistance to tetracycline was significantly higher in compar...

background: tuberculosis (tb) is a major worldwide public health problem. the incidence of tuberculosis has decreased in iran in recent years. however, despite this dramatic decline, tuberculosis is still considered to be a major health problem in iran. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the epidemiological situation and main characteristics of tuberculosis in iran. patients a...