The results of sensitivity test for four Proteus species were compared. P. mirabilis was, in general, more drug sensitive than the other species and P. rettgeri was the least sensitive. The conclusion was drawn that species identification of Proteus is essential in routine bacteriological diagnosis.

patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, conducted in isfahan and kermanshah medical universities in iran, a total of 425 male medical students were randomly selected with the proportional to size from different faculties to participate voluntarily in the study. a self-report written questionnaire was applied to collect data. then, the obtained data were analyzed by spss version 20 u...

Many of the genes commonly associated with cancer participate in the regulation of cell proliferation and apoptosis. Alteration of these genes leads to molecular regulatory defects that are thought to drive the neoplastic process. But could the alterations also affect the response to chemotherapy? Hochhauser et al. (7) in this issue of the Journal address this question for the case of cyclin Dl...

Precision medicine entails the design of therapies that are matched for each individual patient. Thus, predictive modeling of drug responses for specific patients constitutes a significant challenge for personalized therapy. In this article, we consider a review of approaches that have been proposed to tackle the drug sensitivity prediction problem especially with respect to personalized cancer...

background: treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) is being faced with serious difficulties in fars province, due to emerging of resistance against meglumine antimonite (glucantime®). in this context, determining some biomarkers for drug sensitivity monitoring seems to be highly essential. different studies have been carried out to decipher the genes might be involved in antimony resistant p...