background and objectives: the microbiological monitoring of the water used for haemodialysis is important especially for legionella and non-fermentative bacteria since patients with end stage renal disease (esrd) are suffering from deteriorated function of immune system. materials and methods: a total 50 water and dialysate samples were weekly collected over a period of 10 weeks from 5 sites. ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE We assess the utility of the peripheral blood WBC count as a screen for lumbar puncture among young infants evaluated for serious bacterial infections. METHODS We performed logistic regression modeling and receiver operating characteristic curve analysis of peripheral blood WBC count and cerebrospinal fluid WBC count for results obtained from 3- to 89-day-old infants undergoin...

The present study was undertaken to evaluate the microbiological quality of indigenous dahi from eastern Nepal. A total of 39 indigenous dahi samples were collected from sixteen districts of eastern Nepal and analyzed. Results revealed the mean yeasts and mould count to be 20.5×10±7503, coliform count 65±42, S. aureus197±65 and total viable bacterial count 227×10±17250 cfu/g. Total viable bacte...

aim : thereby we aimed to detection of bacterial dna (bactdna) in sbp by polymerase chain reaction (pcr) and its prognostic relevance in cirrhotic patients with culture-negative non-neutrocytic ascites(cnnna).  background: approximately 60% of patients with spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (sbp) are ascites culture negative. methods : of each 77 patients with cirrhosis and ascites, two samples...

background: and objectives:the aim of this study was to detect the antibacterial properties of 0.01, 0.5 and 1% nano-tio2 and -cdo against e. coli. materials and methods: e. coli was cultured in liquid and agar nutrient medium to evaluate the antibacterial effects of 0.01, 0.05 and 1% of both nano-tio2 and -cdo via the optical density (od) and log cfu/ml measurements. results: non-significant e...

Twenty-seven clinical and laboratory data and the subsequent clinical course of 93 consecutive adult patients who underwent orthotopic liver transplantation for various chronic advanced liver diseases were analyzed retrospectively to assess the risk factors of early major bacterial infection and death after the procedure. Forty-one patients (44%) had early major bacterial infection during hospi...

background and objective: uttarakhand region is less explored, but possess a great biodiversity. this diversity can be explored for isolation and characterization of new actinomycetes strains for seeking antimicrobial molecules. it can therefore be predicted that novel bioactive metabolite producing actinomycetes can be discovered to combat multidrug resistant bacterial pathogens. materials and...