Background. Autoimmune process and immunosuppressive therapy of pemphigus vulgaris would predispose the patients to infections. Aim. We aimed to study the prevalence of infection and pathogenic agents in pemphigus vulgaris patients admitted to dermatology service. Material and methods. This retrospective study was conducted on 155 pemphigus vulgaris patients (68 males, 87 females) admitted to d...

Fifty-nine consecutive patients with definite Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis (IE) by the Duke criteria were prospectively identified at our hospital over a 3-year period. Twenty-seven (45.8%) of the 59 patients had hospital-acquired S. aureus bacteremia. The presumed source of infection was an intravascular device in 50.8% of patients. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) revealed...

background: the aim of this study was to investigate the antibiotic susceptibility pattern as well as the phenotypic and genotypic biofilm formation ability of staphylococcus aureus isolates from patients with urinary tract infection (uti). methods: a total of 39 isolates of s. aureus were collected from patients with uti. the antibiotic susceptibility patterns of the isolates were determined b...

introduction bacterial infection is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality especially in developing countries. nuclear medicine has an important role in helping the diagnosis of deep-seated infections by developing more specific radiopharmaceuticals. the aim of this study was to evaluate 99mtc-labeling ceftriaxone as a new radiopharmaceutical for staphylococcus aureus infection imag...

comparison of efficiency of ep i max s and epimax sc disinfectants on bacteria causing infections in intensive care units     valizade ma [1] , khorsandi h [2] , amini tapok f [3] , hosseini jazani n [4] , rahimi rad mh [5] , aqdashi mm [6] , sardari s [7]     received: 23 aug, 2012 accepted: 20 nov, 2012   abstract   background & aims : nosocomial infections cause death, increase costs and the...

Staphylococcus aureus is the most common cause of nosocomial infections. Multiple antibiotic resistance and severe clinical outcomes provide a strong rationale for development of immunoglobulin-based strategies. Traditionally, novel immunological approaches against bacterial pathogens involve antibodies directed against cell surface-exposed virulence-associated epitopes or toxins. In this study...

background & objectives:  methicillin resistance staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) is one of the most important pathogens that causes several nosocomial and community infections. adhesion to surfaces and biofilm formation is considered main step in staphylococcal infection. the aims of this study were to determine presence oficaabcd genes and relation to the biofilm formation in of mrsa isolates...

UNLABELLED Biofilm formation by Staphylococcus aureus involves the formation of an extracellular matrix, but the composition of this matrix has been uncertain. Here we report that the matrix is largely composed of cytoplasmic proteins that reversibly associate with the cell surface in a manner that depends on pH. We propose a model for biofilm formation in which cytoplasmic proteins are release...