The prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is rapidly increasing in healthcare facilities and spreading to the community. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus colonize the skin and open wounds and can interfere with wound healing. Recent studies have shown that ultraviolet light C can kill antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria such as methi...

Human amniotic membrane is considered a promising allograft material for the treatment of ocular surface reconstruction, burns, and other skin defects. In order to avoid the transmission of any diseases, grafts should be perfectly sterile. Twenty-five amniotic sacs were collected to determine the microbiological quality of human amniotic membrane, to analyze the radiation sensitivity pattern of...

Endoscopes are used frequently for the diagnosis and therapy of medical disorders. For example, greater than 10000000 gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures are performed each year in the United States. Failure to employ appropriate cleaning and disinfection/sterilization of endoscopes has been responsible for multiple nosocomial outbreaks and serious, sometimes life-threatening, infections. Fl...

pharmaceutical products prepared in pharmacies have the potential of contamination with different microorganisms. this is in part due to the unhygienic environment and also lack of a suitable preservative system. in this study, microbial quality of eucerin-urea ointments prepared at different pharmacies in tehran, at the point of sale and also after two weeks storage at room temperature was exa...

Indoor residents are constantly exposed to dynamic microbiota that have significant health effects. In addition hand hygiene, cleaning, and disinfection, antimicrobial coatings (AMCs) can prevent the spread of infectious diseases in public areas. The sustainable use antimicrobial-coated products requires an assessment their pros cons for human environment. toxicity resistance risks AMCs been co...

Modern wound management requires that systematic assessment and treatment approaches be adopted in order to address the needs of the wound in a logical way. The frameworks of wound bed preparation using the TIME acronym (Dowsett and Ayello, 2004) and Applied Wound Management (Gray et al, 2006) are two such systems. Both require the assessment and management of the tissues in the wound (e.g. slo...

Rapid and sensitive bioburden detection is of paramount importance in different applications including public health, food water safety. To overcome the traditional limitations bacterial i.e., lengthy culture time, complicated procedure, a low-cost, portable multichannel fluorometer coupled with machine learning (ML) has been implemented this study. Five strains samples were tested along negati...