in 1979, a community health survey for the purpose of establishing population babe. services were conducted in the villages of region of isfahan with a population of about 10,000. the target group involved males and females with in the age group of more than one year old. the population under study, 617 males and 565 females who were selected by household random sampling, where examined for the...

background infections in critical care unit are high, and they are serious hospital problems. infections acquired during the hospital stay are generally called nosocomial infections, initially known as infections arising after 48 h of hospital admission. the mostfrequent nosocomial infections (urinary, respiratory, gastroenteritis and blood stream infection) were common in patients at hospital....

background and objectives: coagulase negative staphylococcus (cons) is frequently isolated from blood cultures but their significance is difficult to interpret. cons bacteria which are often previously dismissed as culture contaminants are attracting greater importance as true pathogens in the past decades. clinical evaluation of these isolates suggests that although there is a relative increas...

1 Department of Microbiology, BJ Government Medical College and Sassoon Hospital, Pune 411001, India 2Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Crosshouse, NHS Ayrshire & Arran, School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK 3Department of Microbiology, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411040, India 4 Johns Hopkins University India Center, BJ Medical College, Pun...

Background Infections in critical care unit are high, and they are serious hospital problems. Infections acquired during the hospital stay are generally called nosocomial infections, initially known as infections arising after 48 h of hospital admission. The mostfrequent nosocomial infections (urinary, respiratory, gastroenteritis and blood stream infection) were common in patients at hospit...