Background & Aims: Nocardia asteroides is gram-positive, partially acid-fast, aerobic actinomycetes which cause a wide range of skin infections, and pulmonary, cerebral, and ocular infection. Case Presentation: A 60-year-old man with diabetes presented with ocular ulcers in 2015. Through the medical records evaluation, physical examination, and biochemical evaluation of the patient, Nocardia as...

Ultrasonography is a relatively easy, safe and non-invasive examination method which can be used in diagnosis of ocular disorders as complementary to routine ophthalmic examinations. As there has been no collated study undertaken on the normal measurements of ocular structures in Caspian miniature horse, obtaining these measurements could be a benchmark to diagnose some of the diseases and eye ...

background ocular trauma is a significant health problem in pediatric patients. objectives the aim of this study was to analyze the characteristics of ocular-trauma-related hospitalization of children in kashan. patients and methods this descriptive, cross-sectional study included 131 children aged less than 16 years with ocular trauma, who were admitted to the matini hospital at the kashan uni...

Recent advances in paint technology have guided the development of novel “ready-to-use” paint formulations in which microencapsulated insecticides, or active ingredients (AIs), are embedded in the paint matrix and gradually released on the surface of the dried paint [1]. It is argued that the slow-release mechanisms enable uniform AI surface concentrations with prolonged residual effect, as com...

A modular and novel assay system for rapid mass screening of chemical compounds for contact irritant and spatial repellent actions against adult mosquitoes is described. The responses of Aedes aegypti to various concentrations of 3 topical repellents, deet, Bayrepel, and SS220, were evaluated. At treatment concentrations > or = 25 nmol/cm2 of SS220, mosquitoes exhibited significant contact irri...

Isolated perfused bovine uteri were used to study the irritation potential of antiseptics frequently used in veterinary practice for the treatment of endometritis. Comparable to the isolated perfused bovine udder (Kietzmann et al., 1993), the viability of uteri obtained directly after slaughtering of cows, was tested with the help of biochemical parameters. These parameters of the viability wer...

Acid phosphatase activity in tape-strip biopsies of human stratum corneum was determined using p-nitrophenyl phosphate as substrate following skin treatment of healthy volunteers with different surfactants at various concentrations. As a short-term effect, enhanced reduction of acid phosphatase activity with stronger surfactants and higher surfactant concentrations was detected. When the skin o...

Infectious keratoconjunctivitis (IKC) is a painful, highly contagious ocular disease in sheep and goats. This study was carried out for identification and characterization of causative agent of ocular disease in a sheep flock consisting of 300 ewes in Mashhad, Iran. Several ocular swabs were taken from affected animals. The samples were pooled and processed in a laboratory for isolation of susp...

Fluomine is a cobalt chelate compound which complexes molecular oxygen and releases it on heating. This property has led to its use a a regenerable oxygen source in high-altitude aircraft. Investigations into the acute effects of exposure to fluomine by various routes were undertaken as first steps in the toxicological characterization of the material. Single-dose rat and mouse oral administrat...