background and objectives:infection of pleural fluid is a common disease and because of antibiotic administration, the microbiology of this fluid has changed. the aim of this study was to determine the common bacteria and suitable antibiotics for treatment in pleural effusion (pe). materials and methods: in this cross sectional study, 1210 samples with exudative features were cultured for poss...

despite recent innovations in the laboratory diagnosis of bacterial from nonbacterial meningitis, solid data-necessary for early determination of bacterial meningitis (bm) before organism growth in the culture medium-are missing. therefore cerebrospinal fluid (csf) lactate levels were evaluated as a possible means of differentiating the two clinical entities. this was a retrospective study. pat...

aims: the internal unit and icu of hospitals are a suitable environment for growing of bacteria such as staphylococcus epidermidis, pseudomonas and acinetobacters. the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of using disinfectants on bacterial remove in isfahan city, iran, hospitals. instrument & methods: this descriptive study was performed in isfahan city, iran, hospitals in 2015. 200 ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate outcome and toxicity profile after primary brachytherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal vestibule. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted for patients with Wang classification T1 to 2 cN0 squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal vestibule who received primary treatment with brachytherapy between 1992 and 2010. Tumor control, acut...

background: flow cytometry is a rapid, sensitive, and reliable method for determination of bacterial viability. here we assayed the capability of flow cytometry to detect helicobacter pylori viable cells in both forms of spiral and coccoid. methods: viable bacteria stained with rhodamin 123 and fluoresced with laser beam of 488nm. the rate of rh123 absorption was determined in both forms of bac...

rarely, do we think of cancer as “bacterial”, such that we are often told that “cancer is not contagious” persistent bacterial infections cause persistent irritation of the host’s defense systems, which when ineffective in eradication of the infection, result in a multitude of self-destructive damages. this in some cases occurs to such severity that the resulting cellular hyper-proliferation pr...

meningitis is one of the hazardous and life threatening infections and is associated with mortality and morbidity. the aim of this study was to determine etiological agents of childhood bacterial meningitis. the culture, gram staining, agglutination and pcr assays were used to examine csf specimens from 277 patients with presumed bacterial meningitis for the occurrence of 4 most common infectio...