background: urinary tract infections (utis) are one of the most important bacterial infections among children throughout the world. the study aimed to estimate the cost of hospitalization associated with pediatric utis in kermanshah province for the years of 2013 and 2014. methods and materials: this was a cross sectional and descriptive study. the study subjects included all those aged 20 year...

background: urinary tract infection (uti) is considered as the most common bacterial infectious disease seen among the pediatric patients. the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial uropathogens isolated from the pediatric patients with urinary tract infections. methods: this descriptive study was conducted in children medial center, te...

introduction: resistance of pathogenic organisms to countenance antibiotics has become a worldwide problem with serious consequences on the treatment of infectious diseases. the aim of this study was to evaluate antibiotic resistance and also the detection of transferred antibiotic resistance by plasmid in clinical proteus isolates. materials and methods: a total of 250 urine samples were colle...

virulent and resistant strains pseudomonas aeruginosa ( p. aeruginosa) is one of the most important cause of utis in pediatrics. the present study was carried to investigate the frequency of virulence factors in the multi-drug resistant strains of  p. aeruginosa isolated from pediatrics hospitalized due to the utis. one - hundred and forty three urine samples were collected from pediatric patie...

conclusions high mdr isolates of e. coli were observed in this study. the significant association between class 1 integrons and resistance to ciprofloxacin, nalidixic acid, co-trimoxazole, amoxicillin, ceftazidime and tetracycline showed that class 1 integrons have an important role in resistance to these antibiotics in this region. results the highest rate of resistance was observed toward cep...

this study was intended to investigate the effectiveness of static magnetic field on the growth of escherichia coli (e. coli) provided from two sources, the urine samples of patients with urinary tract infections and the reference strain e. coli atcc 25922. bacterial samples in nutrient broth were subjected to a range of magnetic intensities (2, 4, 6, 9, 14, 16, 18, and 20 mt) at various exposu...

conclusions our findings implied that a wide range of bacteria could be involved in creating urinary tract infection in patients referred to a medical laboratory of kashani and hajar hospital in shahrekord, iran. regardless of age, sex and the use of catheter, a wide range of bacteria could be involved in urinary tract infections. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study 147 urine sam...