In the past years opportunistic fungal infections have seriously increased, mainly in immunocompromised patients. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of yeast-like fungi in invasive candidiasis and to estimate its susceptibility to chosen antifungal agents. One hundred and sixty strains of yeast-like fungi were cultured from various clinical material: samples from lower respira...

Traditionally, one giraffe species and up to eleven subspecies have been recognized [1]; however, nine subspecies are commonly accepted [2]. Even after a century of research, the distinctness of each giraffe subspecies remains unclear, and the genetic variation across their distribution range has been incompletely explored. Recent genetic studies on mtDNA have shown reciprocal monophyly of the ...

Non-species-dependent interpretative breakpoints for voriconazole and Candida species were proposed by the Antifungal Susceptibility Subcommittee of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute in January 2005 (susceptible, 1 g/ml; susceptible dose dependent [SDD], 1 to 2 g/ml; and resistant, 4 g/ml) (11). The proposed breakpoints were based on the MIC distribution profile, pharmacokinetic a...

during 1995-1997, a faunistic survey was carried out on spider mites and their predacious mites in urmieh region, iran. a total of 15 species belonging to 7 families and 13 genera were collected and identified, of which one genus and species is a new record for iran (marked by two asterisks), and 6 species are new records for west azerbaijan province (marked one asterisks).

study on the livestock diet is one of the main priorities in the management of rangeland in iran. so, this study was conducted to compare preference values of plant species in three age classes of kaboudeh sheep (one, three and five year old ones) in rangelands of bavanat, fars province, iran. for each age class, four sheep were selected and their grazing times from different plant species were...

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during the study on eriophyid mites associated to fabaceae plants in naghare village, lorestan province (iran), one new aculus species (acari: eriophyidae), a. lorestaniensis sp. nov. , was found on glycyrrhiza   glabra  l. and herein described and illustrated. this is the first aculus mites associated to a host plant of the genus glycyrrhiza .

abstract in order to identify the plant parasitic nematodes of cucumber field and greenhouses in jiroft and kahnoj regions, during 2007 and 2008, 45 soil and root samples were collected. in this survey, 13 genus and 16 species were identified. genus ektaphelenchoides and one species of it, e. compsi and aphelenchus isomerus are reported for the first time in iran. the first species was found in...