Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with a chronic inflammatory response in airways and lung parenchyma that results in significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Cigarette smoking considered as an important risk factor plays a role in pathogenesis of disease. Pneumocystis jirovecii is an atypical opportunistic fungus that causes pneumonia in immunosuppressed host, al...

Myiasis is a disease of vertebrate animals caused by different fly larvae. Wohlfahrtia magnifica is responsible for serious losses in animal husbandry in Eurasia. Larvae of W. magnifica parasitize several warm-blooded vertebrates and are responsible for a severe traumatic myiasis of mucosal membranes or wounds. This myiasis has been reported in many European areas, but for the...

background and purpose: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) has been recognized as a risk factor for invasive aspergillosis. airway colonization by aspergillus species is a common feature of chronic pulmonary diseases. nowadays, the incidence of copd has increased in critically ill patients. the aim of the present study was to isolate and identify aspergillus colonies in the respirator...

conclusions the results of the current study suggest that long term use of dentures can cause a wide range of candida species colonization, resulting angular cheilitis. there was a need for an oral manifestation management-based strategy focusing on clinical and preventative treatment. angular cheilitis can be prevented by changing and replacing a new denture to modify the face vertical dimensi...

OBJECTIVE To determine factors associated with colonization by carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and multiresistant Acinetobacter spp. METHODS Surveillance cultures were collected from patients admitted to the intensive care unit at admission, on the third day after admission and weekly until discharge. The outcome was colonization by these pathogens. Two interventions were implemen...

group b streptococcus (gbs) is a leading cause of serious neonatal infections. although great progress has been made in preventing prenatal gbs, its colonization rate in different regions ofiran remains unknown. the objective of this study was to determine the colonization rate of gbs in pregnant women in hamadan city, central west of iran. a group of 544 pregnant women were randomly selected a...

this study in order to evaluate the possibility of improving the root growth of lentil with use mycorrhiza symbiosis with cooperation azospirillum bacteria under rainfed conditions was conducted. a tri-factorial experiment was organized on the basis of randomized complete block design with four replicates, in which factor m was the mycorrhizal inoculums in three levels including (not use, use m...