the incidence of nosocomial fungal infections has increased dramatically during the past two decades as the consequence of continuous increase in the number of severely immunocompromised patients. this study was done to determine the presumptive sources of nosocomial fungal infections at the intensive care unit and transplant wards (in a university- based teaching hospital in tehran) during a 1...

conclusions according to the obtained results, the majority of nurses participating in the study had an intermediate level of knowledge and practice of infection control. there is a need to develop a system of continuous education for all the categories of nursing staff. background basic infection control measures in any nursing setup can reduce the rates of healthcare-associated infections. re...

conclusion it can be concluded that prophylactic antibiotics do not have any preventive effect on wound infection in a double blind setting. according to our findings, routine antibiotic prophylaxis as recommended for biliary surgery (open or laparoscopic cholecystectomy) is now questionable. results the study population included 61 males and 69 females with the mean age of 49.3±9.6 and 51.8±9....

background: the ob­jective of this study was to find an appropriate approach to asymptomatic malaria in elimination setting through a systematic review. methods: a broad search was conducted to find articles with the words ‘malaria’ in their titles and ‘asymptomatic’ or ‘submicroscopic’ in their texts, irrespective of the type of study conducted. the cochrane, medline/pubmed, and scopus databas...

conclusion silver nanoparticles had appropriate effects in all three types of dilutions and allowing for a more protracted contact time has given significantly better results. patients and methods we have selected nine patients' metal file covers and following sterilizing, we have infected them with one of these bacteria; staphylococcus aureus, pseudomonas aeruginosa and bacillus cereus. t...

conclusions based on our findings, p. aerugionsa is a major causative agent of wound infections and amikacin could be considered as a more effective antibiotic for treatment of the burned patients. background nowadays, the treatment of burned patients is difficult because of the high frequency of infection with antibiotic resistance bacteria. objectives this study was conducted to evaluate the ...

in this study parasitic infection of bobwhite and japanese quails were clarified in farms of garmsar city in province of semnan. forty quails from two breeds randomly were selected and they examined to identify all internal and external parasites .finding was shown that five percent of the quails examined harbored one or more species of helminthes. two cestodes, raillietina echinobothrida and r...

b ackground : a cinetobacter spp. emerged as an opportunistic pathogen for hospital-acquired infections. recently, increasing antibiotic resistance among acinetobacter spp. has worsened the problem. the aim of this study was to investigate  the  emerging  trend  of  infection  due  to acinetobacter  in ghaem university hospital, mashhad during 2006-2012. methods : the demographic data and infor...

background appendicitis is one of the most common causes of mortality, despite medical advances it continues to be a major problem. objectives the main goal of this study was healing initial of appendectomy infection wounds with washing method. patients and methods this study is a semiexperimental investigation which was performed on 300 patients with perforated appendicitis and infected ulcers...