typhoid fever is an endemic disease in iran and other developing countries. this disease has gradually become resistant to the first line of drugs, and because of this resistancy we have studied a new alternative drug (cefixime) on typhoid fever patients and compared it's effectiveness with chloramphenicol. for this purpose, by a randomized clinical trial in emam khomeini hospital between ...

A well known anti-cancer lignan arctiin has not been studied for its antibacterial activity based on our literature search. In the present work, the antibacterial and general toxicity of the arctiin from the seeds of Centaurea sclerolepis is studied. Arctiin did not show any significant antibacterial activity against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria when compared with the positive ...

In this study, cultures of patients with tularemia were evaluated, and antimicrobial susceptibilities of two Francisella tularensis strains were tested by disk diffusion and E-test methods. A high-resolution multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) comprising six variable-number tandem repeat loci was applied to elucidate the genetic relatedness among Turkish and Bulgarian i...

Objectives: Isolation of Streptococcus pneumoniae from healthy children in Amman, Jordan. Methods: Nasal swabs were taken from 1002 healthy children. Isolates were analysed for antimicrobial susceptibility, serotypes, macrolide resistance genotypes and phenotypes. Results: The overall carriage rate was 19.5% (n= 195 isolates). The percentage of resistance was as follows: penicillin (91.8%), cef...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of tinea gladiatorum among young wrestlers and dermatophyte contamination of wrestling mats from Sari city, the capital of Mazandaran, a northern province of Iran. DESIGN 324 wrestlers (aged 9-20 years) from 7 active clubs in Sari city were examined, and skin scrapings were obtained from 135 wrestlers suspected of having tinea gladiatorum. The scraped skin sa...

SIR, The prevalence of the urinary infections in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is abnormally high. Pyocyst in patients with ADPKD is a very serious and potentially fetal infection. Diagnosis and treatment of this rare complication is hampered by the problems in the delicate identification of the infected cysts and poor penetration of the systemically used an...

there are increasing reports of emergence of multiple drug resistant (mdr) acinetobacter spp in the world; however there are a few reports in our country. 145 a. baumannii isolates from distinct wards and children's medical center (cmc) in tehran were studied in order to find the profile of antibiotic resistance among them. 40.6% (59/145) of a. baumannii isolates were identified as mdr. overall...

mycoplasma is an important respiratory tract pathogen worldwide, causing respiratory tract infection in small ruminants ( sheep and goats). it is a bacterium that causes acute respiratory illness ranging in severity from mild respiratory illness to severe pneumonia. mycoplasmosis in small ruminants is a serious and major problem in iran. this study was determined to isolate mycoplasma species a...