conclusions if medical treatment gets started early in the course of empyema, prognosis would be excellent. besides, there was no significant difference in short- and long-term outcomes between medical or surgical interventions. objectives the aim of this study was to compare the duration of admission, duration of intravenous antibiotic therapy, time to response to treatment, and outcomes of me...

objective: this study was undertaken with an aim to determine bacterial species involved in post partum infections and also their abundance in patients admitted to at khanevadeh hospital. in this study out of three different kinds of postpartum infections (i.e. genital, breast and urinary tract), only genital infection is considered. materials and methods:  post partum infection among 6077 pati...

background: ascitic fluid infection is presumptively diagnosed when the fluid polymorph nuclear (pmn) concentration equals or exceeds 250 cells /mic,l. the leukocyte esterase (le) test has been shown to be a good predictor of the presence of pmns in urine and other body fluids. this study examines of value of multistix 8sg dipstick test for rapid diagnosis of infected ascitic fluid. materials a...

background and objectives: bacterial vaginosis is a risk factor for obstetric infections, various adverse outcomes of pregnancy and pelvic inflammatory disease. the objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis in women attending gynaecology outpatient department (o.p.d) and sexually transmitted disease (s.t.d.) clinic and to assess the role of gardnerella vagina...

transmission of human pathogens can be occurred via inert objects. paper currency is a further common contact surface whereby pathogens can be transferred within a population although the significance remains unknown. hence, the aim of the present study was to investigate microbial populations associated with iranian paper currency.this study was carried out by getting 108 samples of the irania...

background: the clinical diagnosis of meningitis is crucial, particularly in children. the early diagnosis and empiric an­tibi­otic treatments have led to a reduction in morbidity and mortality rates. pcr and the enzymatic digestion of 16srdna frag­ment which is produced by universal primers led up fast and sensitive determination. the purpose of this study was to investi­gate a rapid method fo...

results patients between 35 and 44 years of age were most frequently affected (25.00%) by otitis externa (average age, 43.87 ± 18.08 years). moreover, women (54.31%) were more frequently affected than men (45.69%). upon direct investigation, gram-positive bacilli were the most commonly identified microorganisms (22.41%). furthermore, bacillus spp. and coagulase-negative staphylococci (22.41% an...

results in this study, high resistances were found to nalidixic acid (59.7%) and gentamicin (52.3%) but high susceptibilities were found to ciprofloxacin (59.3%) and ceftriaxone (36.3%). conclusions according to the results obtained in this study ciprofloxacin is an effective antibiotic in e. coli infections. objectives the current study aimed to investigate the resistance of escherichia coli a...