The aim of this study was to estimate the additional cost of treatment of a group of nosocomial infections in a tertiary public hospital. A retrospective observational cohort study was conducted by means of analyzing the medical records of 34 patients with infection after total knee arthroplasty, diagnosed in 2006 and 2007, who met the criteria for nosocomial infection according to the Centers ...

EXPERIMENTS testing the evolution of fitness of genetic material can be performed by evaluating changes in the competitive abilities of laboratory genotypes that have occurred over relatively short periods of time. In Drosophila such experiments have been performed by utilizing tests for success in interspecific competition (MOORE 1952; STRICKBERGER 1963a) or by utilizing competitive tests betw...

background: frequent infections is among the most frequent clinical dilemmas for primary care physicians. immunodeficiency disorders are a heterogeneous group of illnesses that predispose patients to the recurrent infections, autoimmunity and malignancies. the aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical and laboratory data collected for the final diagnosis of patients referred with recurrent...

a six month old male hamster living in a colony of hamster in the animal house of urmia university, urmia, iran, was found with restlessness and circling signs. the clinical examination revealed symptoms and signs of encephalitis. therefore microbiological and histopathologic studies were conducted after euthanizing the animal. finally, the results of laboratory tests demonstrated listeria mono...

In a survey of 333 pygmies in the Cameroon 4.5 percent. were found to have clinical evidence of yaws. This was also found in 10 per cent. of the inhabitants of camps in Zaire. The results of VDRL and FTA-ABS tests on a sample of the population are presented. These provide evidence of a very high incidence of treponemal disease, 80 to 90 percent. of the population showing serological evidence of...