background: the ob­jective of this study was to find an appropriate approach to asymptomatic malaria in elimination setting through a systematic review. methods: a broad search was conducted to find articles with the words ‘malaria’ in their titles and ‘asymptomatic’ or ‘submicroscopic’ in their texts, irrespective of the type of study conducted. the cochrane, medline/pubmed, and scopus databas...

conclusion silver nanoparticles had appropriate effects in all three types of dilutions and allowing for a more protracted contact time has given significantly better results. patients and methods we have selected nine patients' metal file covers and following sterilizing, we have infected them with one of these bacteria; staphylococcus aureus, pseudomonas aeruginosa and bacillus cereus. t...

conclusions based on our findings, p. aerugionsa is a major causative agent of wound infections and amikacin could be considered as a more effective antibiotic for treatment of the burned patients. background nowadays, the treatment of burned patients is difficult because of the high frequency of infection with antibiotic resistance bacteria. objectives this study was conducted to evaluate the ...

in this study parasitic infection of bobwhite and japanese quails were clarified in farms of garmsar city in province of semnan. forty quails from two breeds randomly were selected and they examined to identify all internal and external parasites .finding was shown that five percent of the quails examined harbored one or more species of helminthes. two cestodes, raillietina echinobothrida and r...

b ackground : a cinetobacter spp. emerged as an opportunistic pathogen for hospital-acquired infections. recently, increasing antibiotic resistance among acinetobacter spp. has worsened the problem. the aim of this study was to investigate  the  emerging  trend  of  infection  due  to acinetobacter  in ghaem university hospital, mashhad during 2006-2012. methods : the demographic data and infor...

background appendicitis is one of the most common causes of mortality, despite medical advances it continues to be a major problem. objectives the main goal of this study was healing initial of appendectomy infection wounds with washing method. patients and methods this study is a semiexperimental investigation which was performed on 300 patients with perforated appendicitis and infected ulcers...

background: brucellosis is a febrile zoonotic infectionand has worldwide distribution among humans as well asanimals. although the seroprevalence of brucellosis in variousanimals has been described in iran, there is only one report onequine brucellosis in the region. objectives: this study wascarried out to determine the seroprevalence of brucellosis inracing clubs and private horse owners in t...

conclusions according to the results of the present study, the prevalence of some infections with intestinal parasites is high in the hamadan city. considering that most of the parasites are nonpathogenic, pathogenic ones have been reduced generally in comparison to the previous reports. nevertheless, the existence of taenia species and h. nana could not be ignored. results among 228 samples, 8...

although cellular immunity involving activated macrophage is important in resistance to brucella infections, serum factors and polymorphonuclears (pmns) play some role in the initial responses to brucella infections. in this research, we studied respiratory burst of pmns against opsonized yeast and opsonized inactivated brucella melitensis in chronic brucellosis patients and controls with no pr...