Background and Objective: In Iran, prenatal Chlamydia and gonorrhea screening of pregnant women and neonatal eye prophylaxis are not routine practice. The present research aimed to identify bacterial agents of neonatal conjunctivitis. Materials & Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted on all babies born over a period from April 2007 to April 2008 in Hajar Hospital of Shahrekor...

Conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye, is a conjunctival inflammation. It brought on by bacteria, viruses, toxins, and allergies, including coronaviruses, the most frequent reason being allergic conjunctivitis (AC), which exposure to pollutants like pollen, animal hair, or mold. The primary contributor it linkage of immunoglobulin E caused allergens receptors stimulated mast cells. As conseque...

background ocular adenoviral infections occur throughout the world in both sporadic and epidemic forms. in the present study we determined the frequency of adenoviral conjunctivitis in two referral university hospitals in tehran by cell culture and pcr method. materials and methods specimens were scraped from the lower palpebral conjunctiva of 115 patients with conjunctivitis who had referred t...

Six administrative regions of Senegal were investigated. Forty species of vegetable leaves which are traditionally consumed in Senegal have been inventoried. All species are members of twenty-one families the most numerous of which are Amaranthaceae Juss., Malvaceae Juss., Moraceae Link., the Papilionaceae Giseke and Tiliaceae Juss. The species are subdivided into three groups: cultivated leafy...

purpose: to report a patient with factitious (self infected) conjunctivitis. case report: a 16-year-old girl presented with pain, redness and edema of lids of her left eye. after exclusion of ocular pathologies, self inflicted conjunctivitis was diagnosed based on the underlying psychological and social problems of the patient. conclusion: after exclusion of ocular pathologies, self inflicted c...

The existence of a differentiation of ligneous and herbaceous plants with respect to the magnitude of the osmotic concentration of the tissue fluids was first demonstrated in a strictly quantitative manner by work.on the sap of the plants of the spring flora of the Arizona deserts 1 in the neighborhood of the Desert Botanical Laboratory, and on the terrestrial vegetation of the Jamaican montane...