Enterococcus is the second cause of urinary tract infections in hospitals and the third most common cause of nosocomial bacteremia. Overuse of antibiotics for the treatment of nosocomial infections, causes antibiotic resistance in enterococci resistant to antibiotics through their ability to acquire resistance to antibiotics through mutation or acquisition of genetic material carrying a resista...

objective: the use of antiretroviral drugs has proven remarkably effective in controlling the progression of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) disease, but these benefits can be compromised by the development of drug resistance. this study aims to assess the drug resistance profile of the pr gene in highly active antiretroviral therapy (haart)-treated and naïve hiv-1 infected patients. metho...

b ackgro un d : staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen world wide. vancomycin has been used for decades to treat multidrug resistant s. aureus. ten years has passed since the first report of vancomycin re sistant s. aureus (vrsa). the objective of this systematic review was to determine  the total number of vrsa isolates that have been reported from iran. me t h ods :   search terms re...

conclusions because of increasing prevalence of prediabetes at earlier age, it seems necessary to reconsider the screening age in urban areas and perform the screening in all adults at younger ages. results the prevalence of diabetes was 7.04% (4.52% women, 2.52% men) and the prevalence of prediabetes was 8.58% (5.59% women, 2.98% men). thehighest prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes were obs...

objectives in this study, we explored a physical method of converting drug-resistant bacteria to drug-sensitive ones. materials and methods this is an in vitro case-control study, performed at the ionizing and non-ionizing radiation protection research center (inirprc), shiraz university of medical sciences (sums), shiraz, iran in 2014. all experiments were carried out using gram-negative bacte...

the objective of this study was to determine the frequency of microorganisms isolated from blood samples of patients admitted to intensive care unit (icu), and the rate of their resistance to common administered antibiotics in an iranian icu. one-hundred patients with systemic inflammatory response syndromes (sirs), hospitalized in icu of sina hospital, tehran, iran, were entered to this cross-...