results there are many pitfalls in diagnosis of utis both with urinalysis and culture methods and also in evaluating the risk factors and causes of utis. conclusions this paper reviews and discusses the common pitfalls in diagnosis and evaluation of utis in children. context urinary tract infections (utis) are among the most common infections in children that affect up to 3% of boys and 8% of g...

background:  one of the most common infections in human is urinary tract infection  (uti)  and  uropathogenic   escherichia  coli   is  one  of  its  major causative agents . uti is extremely common among young women. children under age 5 are also highly at risk. considering the prevalence of this disease, it is necessary  to design  an appropriate  diagnostic  method  for its effective diagnos...

objective(s) staphylococcus aureus is both a successful human commensal and a major pathogen. in this study we investigated the genetic diversity of 26 s. aureus isolates recovered from human skin and urinary tract infections. materials and methods typing procedure for the studied s. aureus isolates was performed based on pcr amplification of the aroa gene, which encodes the enzyme 5-enolpyruvy...

background: based on biochemical properties, enterobacter cloacae represents a large complex of at least 13 variant species, subspecies, and genotypes that progressively identified as the most species causing hospital-acquired infections. the aim of this study was to determine the relevance between phylogenetically related strains within the e. cloacae complex and the frequency of urinary tract...

the formation of renal and urinary calculi is not due to a single cause but occurs as a multifactor entity, by which some of them still are unknown. three theories of stones formation including nucleation, stone matrix and inhibition of crystallization do not accuse water hardness as a main cause of the formation of urinary calculi 120 patients suffering from renal and urinary calculi and the s...

conclusions in conclusion, we developed a method to express the papg.acma protein on the surface of lactobacillus. this is the first report on the successful application of lactic acid bacteria displaying the papg.acma fusion protein. it will be interesting to determine the immune responses against the papg protein in near future using this surface display strategy. results the papg.acma fusion...

background infections in critical care unit are high, and they are serious hospital problems. infections acquired during the hospital stay are generally called nosocomial infections, initially known as infections arising after 48 h of hospital admission. the mostfrequent nosocomial infections (urinary, respiratory, gastroenteritis and blood stream infection) were common in patients at hospital....

objective: present study aimed to evaluate the effects of stress, urge and mixed urinary incontinence on the quality of life and mental health of iranian women with urinary incontinence (ui). materials and methods: this was a cross sectional study of quality of life and mental health among women without and with different types of urinary incontinence (n = 140). quality of life (qol) and mental...

objective: the aims of this study were to determine the frequency of urinary and fecal incontinence and their determinants in pre-menopausal and menopausal women in iran. materials and methods: this one-year cross-sectional study was performed on 304 women aged 40-55 who were admitted to women's clinic at imam khomeini hospital. symptoms of urinary, gas, and fecal incontinence and pelvic organs...

abstract: urinary bladder hemangiomas are very rare and accounting for 0.6% of all urinry bladder toumors. it is rare cause of hematuria. a 8-year old boy presented with painless gross hematuria for one week. he had past history of this problem 5 months ago. physical examination revealed no unusual findings. sonogeraphy and ct scan showed intraluminal bladder mass with exteravesical cyctic comp...