background putative virulence factors are responsible for the pathogenicity of utis caused by pseudomonas aeruginosa (p. aeruginosa). resistance of p. aeruginosa to commonly used antibiotics is caused by the extreme overprescription of those antibiotics. objectives the goal of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of virulence factors and the antibiotic resistance patterns of p. a...

antibiotics are the best known products of actinomycete. over 5,000 antibiotics have been identified from the cultures of gram positive and gram-negative organisms, and filamentous fungi, but only about 100 antibiotics have commercially been used to treat human, animal and plant diseases. the genus, streptomycete, is responsible for the formation of more than 60% of known antibiotics. bacterial...

the chemical composition of essential oils isolated from the leaves of cosmos bipinnatus and its antibacterial activity were analyzed by gc-ms and microbroth dilution assay respectively. the essential oil extracted from this plant was predominantly composed of monoterpenes (69.62%) and sesquiterpenes (22.73%). the antibacterial assay showed that the oil had significant inhibitory effects agains...

background: the main objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance profiles of the main bacteria which are responsible forurinary tract, blood stream, cerebrospinal fluid, lower respiratory tract, and wound infections in hamadan province in the west of iran. materials and methods:in this study,a total of 773 urinary tract, 273 blood stream, 13 cerebrospina...

background surgical site infections (ssis) are the most common nosocomial infections in surgical patients. depending on the source of a traumatic wound, particular pathogens are expected to be present while their prevalence varies in different conditions. this study focused on determination of microorganisms in traumatic wound infection and the frequency of staphylococcus aureus and other organ...

conclusions in this study, c. albicans was the most common species isolated from patients with vulvovaginitis and uti, and significantly more common amongst females compared to males. the prevalence of candida spp. had significantly declined from 2013 to 2015. moreover, the candida spp. counts were mostly higher than 103cfu/ml. results the mean age of the patients was 34.7 ± 16.3. candida albic...

objectives: the rate of person to person transmission of intestinal parasites is high in elderly and mentally retarded patients and lack of treatment may cause disease spread.this sudy was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of treatment of intestinal parasitic infections in elderly and mentallyretardedpatients of golabchi center of kashan. methods & materials: this descriptive study was carried...

how to cite this article: esmaili gourabi h, bidabadi e, cheraghalipour  f, aarabi  y, salamat f. febrile seizure: demographic features and causative factors. iran j child neurol autumn 2012; 6(4):33-37. abstract objective because of geographical and periodical variation, we prompted to determine the demographic features and causative factors for febrile seizure in rasht. materials & methods in...

conclusions prevalence of fbe and aap was significantly different from similar studies, yet frequency of bhp was in accordance with other studies. prevalence of icaa and is256 was not significantly different from some studies while a significant difference was observed when results were compared with some other studies. results of the 59 s. epidermidis, fbe was found in 89.8%, while aap and bhp...

materials and methods lactic acid bacteria isolated from spoiled fruits and vegetables and grown in mrs medium were screened against multi-drug-resistant candida albicans, klebsiella pneumoniae, pseudomonas aeruginosa, escherichia coli, and enterococcus fecalis. results fifty-four lactic acid bacteria were isolated from spoiled fruits and vegetables, of which 11 gram-positive and catalase-negat...