background and objectives: association between mycoplasma pneumoniae infection and increased risk for brain stroke has been well understood. hence, the value of serologic tests for assessing causative relationship between this infection and brain stroke seems to be high. the present study aimed to determine serum level of anti- mycoplasma pneumoniae antibodies in patients with brain stroke and ...

conclusions our study showed that the prevalence of esbl-producing k. pneumoniae at king khalid hospital was significantly high. routine detection of esbl-producing microorganisms is required by each of the laboratory standard detection methods to control the spread of these infections and allow a proper therapeutic strategy. for detection, the phenotypic confirmatory disc diffusion test is sim...

background and objectives: streptococcus pneumoniae, a major human pathogen, is closely related to the commensal species s. mitis and s. oralis. s. pneumoniae surface proteins are implicated in virulence and host interaction of this species, but many of them have recently been detected in s. mitis b6 in silico. we tested for the presence of such genes usinga set of eight s. mitis and eleven s. ...

an association between chlamydia pneumoniae (c. pneumoniae) and cardiovascular disease has been demonstrated. in this study, we aimed to study this potential relationship in 105 iranian patients. coronary artery specimens from 105 iranian patients undergoing cabg were analyzed by pcr method for c. pneumoniae. serological evaluation for c. pneumoniae igg and igm was performed using elisa. 53 spe...

some adipocytokines are cardioprotective or pro-inflammatory for cardiovascular system. chronic infection with chlamydia pneumoniae and helicobacter pylori has been also considered as novel risk factors for atherosclerosis. the main aim of the current population-based study is to investigate the potential link between circulating adipocytokines and chlamydia pneumoniae or helicobacter pylori ig...

background chlamydia pneumoniae has been linked with increased risk of cardiovascular diseases; however, data on stroke and cerebrovascular accidents are sparse. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the association between c. pneumoniae infection and ischemic stroke. patients and methods in a case-control study, 141 patients, admitted with ischemic stroke, were compared with gender...

resistance of streptococcus pneumoniae against penicillin is considered to be of great importance. while low-resistant strains could be treated by penicillin, treatment of highly resistant strains is very difficult and needs broad-spectrum antibiotics. this study was performed in imam khomeini medical center, tehran, iran, from 1999 to 2001 to evaluate pneumococcal resistance against penicillin...

listeria monocytogenes can cause serious infection and recently, relapse of listeriosis has been reported in leukemia and colorectal cancer, and the patients with klebsiella pneumoniae are at increased risk of colorectal cancer. translation initiation codon recognition is basically mediated by shine-dalgarno (sd) and the anti-sd sequences at the small ribosomal rna (ssu rrna). in this research,...