Plants are a rich source of antibiotics, but screening all the existing plant species for biological activity using current methods can be time and resource consuming. The present study is to investigate whether powdered plant materials would perform as well as plant extracts in the screening of plants with antimicrobial activity. In the new method proposed (STAMP), we compared in vitro antimic...

OBJECTIVE To investigate adherence to the 2002 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for perinatal group B streptococci (GBS) prevention in penicillin-allergic obstetric patients. METHODS This is a retrospective cohort study of penicillin-allergic obstetric patients who tested positive for GBS and delivered at our institution in 2010. Electronic medical records were revi...

background recent studies on bacterial pathogens causing urinary tract infection (uti) in children have shown high levels of antibiotic resistance in clinical settings. objectives we determined the common bacterial pathogens causing uti and their antimicrobial resistance patterns in iranian children. patients and methods the study subjects were 114 children (female subjects, 58.8%) with culture...