background : these days, the antibiotic resistance of pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates to imipenem has significantly increased. therefore the study of resistance to imipenem in this organism to imipenem in determining the appropriate treatment is crucial and necessary. the goal of this study is to compare three phenotypic methods of e-test, disk diffusion and micro broth dilution in the study of...

abstract aims: bovine mastitis continues to be the most costly disease to the dairy farmers. it dominates in iran as one of the most prevalent diseases in dairy cattle among the dairy farms. mastitis treatment with antibiotics leads to the development of antibiotic resistant strains and consumer health problem. this study was performed for the first time to analyze in vitro effects of hydro-alc...

background and objective: methicillin resistance in staphylococcus aureus is an increasingly important clinical problem. a chromosomal gene, meca, mediates resistance to penicillinase-resistant penicillins such as methicillin and oxacillin in staphylococcus aureus. we evaluated the validity of disk diffusion test by using oxacillin, methicillin and cefoxitin disks with consideration of the pres...

background: methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) has been emerged as a nosocomial and community acquired pathogen worldwide. there are many challenges for laboratory detection of mrsa. the aim of this study was to compare different phenotypic methods with pcr based method as a gold standard for detection of meca gene. methods: a total of 220 clinical isolates of s. aureus which we...

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing for Helicobacter pylori is increasingly important due to resistance to the most used antimicrobials agents. Only agar dilution method is approved by CLSI, but it is difficult to perform routinely. We evaluated the reliability of E-test and disk diffusion comparing to agar dilution method on Helicobacter pylori antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Susceptibi...

Disk diffusion test is the usual applicable method for assessing the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern in most institutions and hospitals. The aim of this study was to determine the reliability of resistant-reported results of disk diffusion test for 6 routinely used antibiotics against Gram-positive microorganisms of nosocomial origin, using E-test method. Over a 1-year period, clinical spe...

during the last two decades, various medicinal plants have been studied for their possible antimicrobial activity to discover new antimicrobial agents capable of resolving problems such as the development of drug resistance in pathogenic microorganisms as well as the side effects of some present antibiotics. in this study, the antibacterial activity of methanolic extract of t. pubescens (rich i...

introduction: glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice) root, a member of the pea family has been used since ancient times as both food and medicine. licorice has been used as an antioxidant, antimicrobial and anti inflammatory in researches .extraction of this medical plant is used as the basis of anti-ulcer medicine for treatment of peptic ulcer. patients and methods: in the present study, licorice decoc...

background aeromonas hydrophila cause one of the most important diseases in fishes and lead to economic losses, and may be contaminated human beings. objectives the current research aimed to investigate the anti-bacterial activity shown by the extracts prepared from different parts of olea europea, myrtus communis, thymus vulgaris, rosmarinuis officinalis, and achillea falcata that grow in syri...