INTRODUCTION Emergence of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) and vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (VRSA) strains has led to great concern in global public health in both developing and developed countries. This study investigated distribution and molecular characterization of VRSA strains in Tehran's hospitals using a combination of molecular typing methods. MATERIALS AND METH...

Arbitrary-shaped text detection has recently attracted increasing interests and witnessed rapid development with the popularity of deep learning algorithms. Nevertheless, existing approaches often obtain inaccurate results, mainly due to relatively weak ability utilize context information inappropriate choice offset references. This paper presents a novel instance expression which integrates bo...

conclusions the rate of imlsb in s. aureus isolates is relatively high in the northwest iran. since isolates with inducible resistance may mutate and change to constitutive resistance, to prevent clinical treatment failure, d-test should be performed along with routine antibiotic susceptibility tests. in this study, ermc gene was the predominant genetic determinant for the expression of mlsb re...

Emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance is a major concern for the dairy industry worldwide. Objectives were to determine: (1) phenotypic and genotypic prevalence of drug-specific resistance for 25 species of non-aureus staphylococci, and (2) associations between presence of resistance determinants and antimicrobial resistance. Broth micro-dilution was used to determine resistance prof...

A pragmatic Chinese word segmentation approach is presented in this paper based on mixing language models. Chinese word segmentation is composed of several hard sub-tasks, which usually encounter different difficulties. The authors apply the corresponding language model to solve each special sub-task, so as to take advantage of each model. First, a class-based trigram is adopted in basic word s...

Image salient object detection is useful for applications like image retrieval, object recognition etc. Aiming to obtain the pixel-level saliency map, most traditional saliency models ignore the object-level information and become inappropriate in complex scenes. A new salient object detection method is proposed in this paper by incorporating the notion of object and background prior directly i...

Linezolid belongs to a new class of antimicrobials, the oxazolidinones, that act by inhibiting protein synthesis. To detect cross-resistance with other inhibitors of protein synthesis (chloramphenicol, macrolides, lincosamides, streptogramins, aminoglycosides and tetracyclines), the in vitro activity of linezolid was determined against isolates harbouring known genes conferring resistance to th...