background: nosocomial infections are an important cause of hospital mortalities. staphylococcus aureus (s. aureus) carriers among medical staff are an important source of nosocomial infections. the purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of the nasal carriers of s. aureus and antibiotic resistance in staff of nikuee hospital, qom, iran. materials and methods: in this cross-sect...

Background: The emergence and propagation of different phylogenetic groups of antimicrobial-resistant E. coli have become a worldwide health concern in human and veterinary medicine. Therefore, the evaluation of the phylogenetic distribution of antibiotic-resistant E. coli is important for therapeutic and economic purposes. The aims of this study were to determine phylogenetic groups and patter...

conclusions all the staphylococcus aureus strains and enterococcus faecium strains were sensitive to members of the oxazolidinone class of linezolid drug. development of multi drug resistance by gram positive bacteria constitutes a very serious challenge for medical practice. despite these rising rates, it is impossible to distinguish where they have originated from and special attention has th...

E.coli is one of the serious pathogen that can cause tremendous therapeutic problem by developing resistance against antibiotics. The drug resistance in bacterial population is may be due to a genetic and non genetic mechanism (Choudhary 1988). Regarding genetic mechanism most drug resistant microbes emerged as a result of genetic changes and subsequent processes by antimicrobial drugs. The dru...

Postural disturbances are one of the first reported symptoms in patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of supervised resistance training on postural control in MS patients. Postural control was assessed using amount of sway variability [Root Mean Square (RMS)] and temporal structure of sway variability [Lyapunov Exponent (LyE)] from 15 MS ...

Background & Aims: Duo to clinical use of antibiotics, pseudomonas aeruginosa strains with multiple drugs resistance have significantly increased throughout the world. Betalactamase production is one of the Mechanisms involved in resistance to pseudomonas aeruginosa resulting in many problems in the treatment of infections caused by this bacterium. The aim of this study was molecular analysis o...

A common feature of mammalian cell lines selected for multiple drug resistance is the overexpression of a high-molecular-weight surface membrane glycoprotein(s). While its amount has been shown to be related to the degree of resistance of such cells, its function in this phenomenon remains obscure. Because there are some biochemical and functional similarities between drug-resistant cells and d...

Drug resistance is a major problem in the successful treatment of cancer. Resistance to one drug is often associated with cross-resistance to other anticancer agents. This is commonly seen with the "natural product" anticancer drugs such as the Vinca alkaloids and anthracyclines. In experimental systems, specific changes in plasma membranes characterize this "multiple drug resistance." The most...

background: the emergence and propagation of different phylogenetic groups of antimicrobial-resistant e. coli have become a worldwide health concern in human and veterinary medicine. therefore, the evaluation of the phylogenetic distribution of antibiotic-resistant e. coli is important for therapeutic and economic purposes. the aims of this study were to determine phylogenetic groups and patter...