245 patients with typhoid fever were admitted in university of isfahan medical centers during the last 4 years are reported here in this study. the diagnosis was confirmed in each case by the history of the exposure physical examination, widal seroreaction and blood culture test. the highest incidence of the disease occurred between 10-19 years of age, and mostly in summer months, during june, ...

background: neutropenic patients are vulnerable to a wide spectrum of infectious agents. the aim of this study was to determine the current frequency of bacterial infections in patients with nosocomial fever and neutropenia. methods: in a retrospective study, the neutropenic patients’ specimens with nosocomial fever were cultured on blood and macconkey agar plates and evaluated at microbiology ...

conclusions only a small number of case reports have described valproic acid-induced dress syndrome; therefore, the condition is difficult to prevent. rechallenge with valproic acid should be avoided in patients with a history of reaction to the drug. case presentation we report on the case of a 60-year-old man who had been treated with valproic acid some time before being referred to kowsar ho...

conclusions this study showed that abdominal pain, fever, leukocytosis, and wbcs in the stool were associated with gastroenteritis infection caused by campylobacter. results there were 36 positive cultures (8.6%) for campylobacter, with frequencies of 6.4% and 10.3% for boys and girls, respectively (p = 0.16). the highest frequency of positive culture belonged to the age group over six years (p...

introduction crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) is a viral hemorrhagic fever which transmitted by tick-bites, or through contact with infected animal tissues or secretions during and immediately post-slaughter. it can be responsible for severe outbreaks in humans. case presentation we have explained five patients of a family with (cchf), which acquired the illness at one time. every five pa...

crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever is a tick-borne viral disease reported from more than 30 countries in africa, asia, south-east europe, and the middle east. the majority of human cases are workers in livestock industry, agriculture, slaughterhouses, and veterinary practice. the current mortality rate in endemic areas varies between 5 to 20 percent depending on the geographic location and medical...

in guilan province, near the end of spring and summer each year at the time of rice gathering, some of the farmers run high fevers. this disease is named as “shaltook fever” (paddy or husked rice fever) in the region. review of literature showed outbreak of leptospirosis between rice farmers in italy and spain. we decided to measure antibody levels (igm and igg) against leptospirosis in patient...

fever accompanied by rash is a common finding in pediatric patients. although, in most cases, the disease is trivial, in some cases it may be the first and/or the sole manifestation of a serious and life threatening condition in patients. the spectrum of differential diagnosis is broad and many different infectious and some noninfectious agents cause this syndrome. to establish a timely diagnos...

a study was undertaken to find out the prevalence rate or rheumatic fever (r.f.) and rheumatic heart disease (r.h.d.) among pupils in selected schools of tehran, and to evaluate the rate of socio-economical factors on prevalence rate of this disease. during period of 5 months, 6, 183 children and adolescents aged 5-17 were studied. out of 6,183 pupils, 3, 680 were boys (59.5) and 2,503 were gir...