Background & Aims: Based on serological studies the prevalence of Helicobacter Pylori infection in Iranian adults is up to 80%. Gastritis, peptic ulcer and gastric adenocarcinoma are common clinical outcomes of this infection in Iran. Since antibiotic resistance patterns of Helicobacter pylori are different geographically, local studies are highly required. Method: From April to December 2009, ...

background :  science the discovery of antibiotic, the incidence of antibiotic resistance has been inevitable. although there has been many study in these area but problem still exists. the aim of this research was to study the serotyping and multiple antibiotic resistance patterns of shigella sonnei isolated from diarrheal stool of children.   methods :  the stool samples of children from zero...

conclusions antibiotic resistance gene cassettes may be carried on integron or other genetic elements. the purpose of this study was to detect integron or genomic islands involved in antibiotic resistance profile of the isolates of h. influenzae collected in this study. results of the twenty isolates, all (100%) were resistant to clindamycin, chloramphenicol and tetracycline, 95% to amoxicillin...

BACKGROUND Over 90% of all antibiotics in Europe are prescribed in primary care. It is important that antibiotics are prescribed that are likely to be effective; however, information about antibiotic resistance in the community is incomplete. The aim of our study is to investigate the appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing in primary care in Europe by collecting and combining patterns of ant...

patients and methods two-hundred and fifty-five clinical specimens were collected from four major provinces of iran. samples were cultured and the mrsa strains were subjected to polymerase chain reaction (pcr). the patterns of antibiotic resistance were determined using the disk diffusion method. results seventy-four out of 255 (29.01%) clinical samples were positive for mrsa. of the 74 mrsa st...