introduction: infection is the most common complication of burn and one of the most important causes of mortality and morbidity in burned patients. topical antibiotics have important role in prevention and treatment of infection and reduction of mortality in burned patients. increases of use of antibiotics cause microbial resistance. methods: to determine microbial resistance to three topical a...

background medical sphincterotomy has gained popularity as a treatment for anal fissure. calcium channel blockers in topical forms could also be appropriate with low adverse effects. objectives this was a prospective randomized controlled trial to compare topical and oral nifedipine in the treatment of chronic anal fissure. patients and methods a prospective randomized controlled trial was cond...

PURPOSE Topical corticosteroids concerns (TCC) are common in dermatology patients, possibly leading to non-adherence to topical corticosteroids (TCS) and poor disease control. Clinicians play a key role in that context, as they can reduce or reinforce these concerns. It is unknown, if clinicians have accurate knowledge of TCC to appropriately address this issue and whether they have concerns th...

Background. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a frequent problem among postmenopausal women necessitating antimicrobial use, and resistance is increasing. Every year, 8-10% of postmenopausal women have 1 episode of a UTI; of these, 5% will have a recurrence in the next year. Most women have been taken off estrogen hormone replacement therapy (HRT). While studies have demonstrated systemic HRT...

Some otolaryngologists administer topical phenylephrine for bleeding control in adenoidectomy surgery. Absorption of this drug from surgical site can lead to increase in blood pressure due to vasoconstriction and then bradycardia related to baroreceptore reflex.  Our case was an intraoperative arrest of a 9-yrs-old girl related to administration of topical phenylephrine during adenoidectomy how...

Background: Seborrheic dermatitis is one of the most common skin diseases. Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the topical and oral ketoconazole in treatment of intractable cases of seborrheic dermatitis referring to Faghihi Hospital in Shiraz. Patients and Methods: This study was performed on 80 cases of intractable seborrheic dermatitis in 1376-1378. The patients were randomiz...

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Microbiology Society journals contain high-quality research papers and topical review articles. We are a not-for-profit publisher we support invest in the microbiology community, to benefit of everyone. This supports our principal goal develop, expand strengthen networks available members so that they can generate new knowledge about microbes ensure it is shared with other communities.

This paper presents an empirical evaluation in a multilingual scenario of the semantic knowledge present on publicly available large-scale knowledge resources. The study covers a wide range of manually and automatically derived large-scale knowledge resources for English and Spanish. In order to establish a fair and neutral comparison, the knowledge resources are evaluated using the same method...