background and purpose: vulvovaginal candidiasis is a frequent disease affecting approximately more than %75 of all childbearing women at least once in their lifetime by overgrowth of opportunistic candida species. recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (rvvc) is common in otherwise healthy individuals. several risk factors were reported to contribute to rvvc susceptibility. a polymorphism in decti...

background one of the major clinical problems regarding pseudomonas aeruginosa is attributed to metallo-beta-lactamases (mbl). this group of enzymes is a subset of beta lactamases which belong to group b of ambler classification and cause hydrolysis of carbapenems. based on epidemiological studies conducted worldwide, it is proved that prevalence of genes coding mbls in p. aeruginosa species ar...