BACKGROUND It is widely accepted that cervical interlaminar steroid injection (CIESI) is more effective in treating radicular pain than axial neck pain, but without direct comparison. And the differences of effect after CIESI according to MRI findings are inconsistent. In this retrospective study, we evaluated the therapeutic response of CIESI according to pain sites, durations, MRI findings, a...

In this study, we report some endophytic fungi isolated from twigs of Quercus brantii in Dena region of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province. The twigs were sampled from trees which had basidiocarps of the invasive basidiomycetous polypore fungus Inonotus krawtzewii on their trunk. Altogether, ca. 40 pure isolates were obtained. The ITS sequences were obtained for 16 isolates, and their phylogen...

hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection is the 10th leading cause of death worldwide. the most important diagnostic and screening marker for hbv infection is hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag), and the most widely used hbsag screening test is enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa). in this study, an elisa assay has been developed for detection of hbsag using two novel monoclonal antibodies (mab) ...

background and objectives: staphylococcus aureus is an important cause of nosocomial and community-acquired infections in every region of the world. clindamycin is one of the alternative agents used to treat s. aureus infections and accurate identification of clindamycin resistance is important to prevent therapeutic failure. unfortunately, inducible clindamycin resistance is not detected by st...