Background and Objective: Hospitals niche as a source and repository for microbial infections are playing a significant role in the health of hospitalized patients. Bacteria are playing an essential role in human and animal blood infections and meningitis. The prevalence of bacterial agents and their susceptibility patterns are fundamental goals of current research. Materials and Methods: Samp...

Identification of Nocardia to the species level is useful for predicting antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and defining the pathogenicity and geographic distribution of these organisms. We sought to develop an identification method which was accurate, timely, and employed tests which would be readily available in most clinical laboratories. We evaluated the API 20C AUX yeast identification ...

Background & Aims: Fungal infections are among the most common life threatening conditions in patients with hematologic malignancies. The present study was carried out on children hospitalized in Amir Oncology Hospital of Shiraz, Iran, in order to determine the prevalence of fungal infections and respective susceptibility patterns to prophylactic antifungal therapies. Methods: Colonization was ...