Buschke-Loewenstein tumor (BLT) is a giant condyloma acuminatum which is very rare and commonly affects the anogenital region. The malignant transformation and localization in penis is very rare. This article aims to present a case with BLT with malignant transformation in penis. A 59-year-old male patient was referred, who has have been suffering from a cauliflower-like lesion in the penis for...

background and purpose: the fusarium species are among the most important fungi in the medical, veterinary and agricultural fields. materials and methods: in the present study, 172 strains of these fungi have been analyzed. the high molecular weight dnas were extracted from 23 reference strains as well as from 149 isolated fusarium species. using the designed nucleotide primers from rdna of fus...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of specific acquired macrolide resistance genes previously reported as present in clinical isolates of Haemophilus influenzae. METHODS A collection of 172 clinical respiratory isolates of H. influenzae, including 59 isolates from cystic fibrosis patients and 27 from non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis patients with signific...

gibberella fujikuroi the cause of rice bakanae disease and foot rot is one of the important seed-borne diseases in guilan province. three fusarium species including fusarium proliferatum, fusarium verticillioides and fusarium fujikuroi have been reported as the casual agents of rice bakanae disease from all over the world. these three species belonged to three mating population a, c and d that ...

Composting manure, if done properly, should kill pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli O157:H7, providing for an environmentally safe product. Over a 3-year period, samples of composted dairy manure, representing 11 composting operations (two to six samples per producer; 100 total samples), were screened for Salmonella and E. coli O157:H7 and were all culture negative. Non...

fusarium wilt caused by fusarium oxysporum schltdl. f.sp. phaseoli (fop), is one of the important diseases of the common bean in iran and many of the bean growing countries. incidence of the disease has been reported in tropical and semi-tropical regions of the world. this study was carried out to characterize genetic diversity of f. oxysporum isolates from the common bean by vegetative compati...