Introduction Chronic diarrhea of infancy is a heterogeneous syndrome that includes several diseases with different etiologies. The aim of this study was investigating chronic diarrhea, its etiologies, clinical features and outcomes in infancy.Materials and Methods Retrospective study investigating infants hospitalized in the gastroenterology department of Tehran tertiary care center.The main de...

one of the great challenges in the treatment of infectious diseases is the resistance of pathogenic bacteria against antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance to shigella is broadly observed in different parts of the world. the object of this study was to determine shigella antibiotic resistance pattern against the antibiotics such as ampicillin, amoxicillin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, chloram...

background and objective: despite consistent evidence that probiotics reduce the duration of diarrhea, there is only weak evidence for their efficacy in reducing the duration of hospitalization. another source of heteroge-neity for probiotic trials is the type of probiotic being assessed; also, information about combined products is scarce. methods: this is a randomized, single-blind controlled...

objectives in this study, we aimed to determine the prevalence of the species of campylobacter. jejuni in zahedan, a major city in southeastern iran. patients and methods fecal samples from 164 patients with acute diarrhea from zahedan hospitals were collected from 2011 to 2013. then the samples were streaked onto a campylobacter selective agar containing supplement and 7% defibrinated sheep bl...

introduction: awareness of the species of shigella has particular importance in the way of dealing with an outbreak, controlling it, and treating patients. the purpose of this study was to use the multiplex pcr method and comparison with the culture method to detect shigella species, as well as analysing the antibiotic resistance pattern in its different species. methods: simultaneously, the fe...