background infections in critical care unit are high, and they are serious hospital problems. infections acquired during the hospital stay are generally called nosocomial infections, initially known as infections arising after 48 h of hospital admission. the mostfrequent nosocomial infections (urinary, respiratory, gastroenteritis and blood stream infection) were common in patients at hospital....

objective: this study was undertaken with an aim to determine bacterial species involved in post partum infections and also their abundance in patients admitted to at khanevadeh hospital. in this study out of three different kinds of postpartum infections (i.e. genital, breast and urinary tract), only genital infection is considered. materials and methods:  post partum infection among 6077 pati...

background nosocomial infections are generally occurring 72 hours after admittance and are not present or incubating prior to admittance. the most common nosocomial infection is urinary tract infection (uti). scanty data are available regarding the nosocomial infections in iranian teaching hospitals. the aim of the present study was to determine the frequency of symptomatic nosocomial uti, iden...

conclusion we suggest the standard cefazolin prophylaxis (after cord clamping) for elective cesarean section and cefazolin before incision for non elective cesarean section. therefore, administration of prophylactic cefazolin prior to incision will not increase the rate of neonatal sepsis. compared between these groups. results two groups were demographically identical. rate of iv line need (rr...

to determine the prevalence of bacterial mastitis in cattle, milk samples positive for california mastitistest (cmt) were cultured during a period of almost 4 years. the bacterial species isolated from 2904 milksamples studied were coagulase negative staphylococcus sp. in 879 (30.27%) samples, streptococcusagalactiae in 642 (22.11%), s. dysgalactiae in 332 (11.43%), e. coli in 295 (10.16%), sta...

fungal sinus infections are being recognized with increasing frequency. we report a case with rhino cerebral and chest phaeohyphomycosis infection caused by cladosporium bantianum in an 18 year old man with wegener's granulomatosis. the diagnosis was established by histopathological appearance, direct examination, culture and computerized tomography (ct) scan. this case was successfully tr...

Introduction: Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) or Human Herpes Virus Type-5(HHV-5) is a member of herpesviridae placed in subtype beta herpesvirinae. CMV is a ubiquitous pathogenic virus and can infect humans all through their life. Prevalence of CMV infection in developed countries is about 45% and in developing countries it varies up to 100%. CMV infection during pregnancy is very important, beca...

nosocomial infection and its heavy financial cost is a well recognized problem. a variety of sources of organisms involved in nosocomial infection have been identified in recent years. one potential route of bacterial infection is contamination. in order to assess the importance of food contamination, we carried out a survey of bacterial examination of food and the kitchen environment of 14 hos...

abstract introduction: this study was conducted to detect asymptomatic cases of visceral leishmaniasis in human and dog, using pcr and serology methods in darab, fars province. material and methods: in this descriptive cross-sectional survey, blood samples were randomly collected from all children aged 10 years old; 10% of the adults and 20% of the dog owners were investigated. to determine the...