Nosocomial Sexuall Transmitted Disease

Tehran University students' knowledge about sexually transmitted disease

Introduction: Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) such as gonorrhea, syphilis and ‎trichomonias are the most common infection disease in the world. Since young adults are at ‎substantial risk for contracting STD and previous studies have shown youth poor knowledge ‎level.‎ Aim: The objective of this study is to determine the knowledge level about STD among ‎Tehran Univers...

Tuberculosis: 11. Nosocomial disease.

The tuberculosis (TB) series, which has been running in CMAJ since March 1999, has already reviewed the changes in populations at risk and the emergence of HIV-related and multidrug-resistant TB in Canada. Since the occurrence of several highly publicized outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB in US hospitals, the transmission of TB within hospitals and other institutions has been increasingly rec...

Nosocomial Legionnaire’s Disease

Sexually Transmitted Disease ( STD )

Sexually transmitted disease (STD) can be infected through sexual contacts. Some of the common STDs are syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia. Different STDs have different transmission mechanism, signs and symptoms, complications, diagnosis and treatments. This review article focuses on the mechanism of disease transmission, bacterial resistance and type of antibacterial drugs used for three commo...

Nosocomial spread of viral disease.

Viruses are important causes of nosocomial infection, but the fact that hospital outbreaks often result from introduction(s) from community-based epidemics, together with the need to initiate specific laboratory testing, means that there are usually insufficient data to allow the monitoring of trends in incidences. The most important defenses against nosocomial transmission of viruses are detai...