background tuberculosis is still a public health concern in iran. the main challenge in monitoring epidemiological status of tuberculosis is to estimate its incidence accurately. objectives we used a newly developed approach to estimate the incidence of tuberculosis in sistan, an endemic area in southeast of iran in 2012-13. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was conducted on schoo...

zygomycosis is a fulminant infection which usually afflicts patients who are immunocompromised by diabetes mellitus, malignancy or immunosuppressive therapy.l this disease is a rare but highly invasive fungal infection which occurs in organ transplant recipients. 2 mucormycosis confined to the gastrointestinal tract is an uncommon form of the disease. accounting for only seven percent of all mu...

introduction: skull-based osteomyelitis is bony infection which generally originates from inadequately treated chronic infection, adjoining tissue infection or after trauma.case: 11 month female child had a trivial fall while standing near a bucket. the child developed fracture of right clavicle and left orbital swelling which was inadequately treated. this resulted in in spread of infection to...

conclusions mucomycosis should be in differncial diagnosis of any chronic infiltrative lesions even without visible necrosis and normal immune status of the patient. introduction cutaneous infection is an uncommon presentation of mucormycosis, usually seen after trauma, at the site of surgical drains or after occlusive dressings. the involved area is erythematous and painful, with varying degre...

invasive aspergillosis is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among solid organ transplant recipients, especially in lung transplantations. diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis is one of the current challenges due to nonspecific clinical symptoms and broad differential diagnosis. definitive diagnosis usually requires invasive procedures, including bronchoscopy and ctguided biopsy

the purpose of this study was to assess the possible correlation between brucella and hiv infections. iran is a country where hiv infection is expanding and brucellosis is prevalent. in the present study, 184 hiv infected patients were assigned and for all of them hiv infection was confirmed by western blot test. in order to identify the prevalence rate of brucella infection and systemic brucel...

abstract   background: wound infection is a frequent and severe complication in burn patients accounting for a high number of mortalities. there are some reports comparing swab and biopsy cultures of wounds of various etiologies or chronic wounds.   objectives: the aim of the study was to evaluate burn wound infection by different bacteriologic methods of surface swab and tissue biopsy culture ...