A total of 480 nasal samples from apparently healthy Nigerian students were collected aseptically and analyzed bacteriologically. Staphylococci recovered 432 (90%) the subjects, constituting 288 (66.7%) 144 (33.3%) S. aureus epidermidis respectively. The in-vitro antibiotic susceptibility testing using disc diffusion technique showed high multiple resistance to most commonly used antibiotics by...

interferon is a protein secreted by eucaryotic cells following stimulation by viruses, bacteria, and many other immunogenes. recent medical studies indicate that interferons have effective role in the treatment of virus infections, immunodeficiency and certain types of cancer such as hairy cell leukaemia (hcl). the aim of the present study is to apply yeast strain for secreting human ifnα2b fol...

1Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. Received: 27/01/03; accepted: 06/05/03 ABSTRACT We investigated antimicrobial resistance patterns and plasmid profiles of uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolates from inpatients and outpatients at Jordan University Hospital in 2000 and 2001. E. coli accounted for 32.4% and 37.4% of all isolates ...