introduction: skull-based osteomyelitis is bony infection which generally originates from inadequately treated chronic infection, adjoining tissue infection or after trauma.case: 11 month female child had a trivial fall while standing near a bucket. the child developed fracture of right clavicle and left orbital swelling which was inadequately treated. this resulted in in spread of infection to...

conclusions mucomycosis should be in differncial diagnosis of any chronic infiltrative lesions even without visible necrosis and normal immune status of the patient. introduction cutaneous infection is an uncommon presentation of mucormycosis, usually seen after trauma, at the site of surgical drains or after occlusive dressings. the involved area is erythematous and painful, with varying degre...

invasive aspergillosis is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among solid organ transplant recipients, especially in lung transplantations. diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis is one of the current challenges due to nonspecific clinical symptoms and broad differential diagnosis. definitive diagnosis usually requires invasive procedures, including bronchoscopy and ctguided biopsy

the purpose of this study was to assess the possible correlation between brucella and hiv infections. iran is a country where hiv infection is expanding and brucellosis is prevalent. in the present study, 184 hiv infected patients were assigned and for all of them hiv infection was confirmed by western blot test. in order to identify the prevalence rate of brucella infection and systemic brucel...

abstract   background: wound infection is a frequent and severe complication in burn patients accounting for a high number of mortalities. there are some reports comparing swab and biopsy cultures of wounds of various etiologies or chronic wounds.   objectives: the aim of the study was to evaluate burn wound infection by different bacteriologic methods of surface swab and tissue biopsy culture ...

acute meningitis in children is predominantly aseptic and does not require specific treatment. however, meningitis has a bacterial origin in about 5% of patients and carries a risk of fatal outcome or severe neurological sequelae, especially when diagnosis and antibiotic administration are delayed. the objective of the present study was to evaluate the value of determining procalcitonin levels ...

conclusions the current study shows that the predominant hcv genotype among azerbaijani patients with established chronic hepatitis c is subtype 1b (71.1%) followed by subtype 3a (17.0%). results hcv genotyping of positive plasma samples demonstrated that predominant hcv subtype was noted for 1b (71.1%) followed by subtype 3a (17.0%), genotype 2 (6.8%), 1a (1.7%), and mixed infection (3.4%). th...

ebola virus disease is the important emerging disease in africa. this infection is deadly and has the main clinical feature as an acute hemorrhagic fever. the main hematological alteration in this infection is the platelet change. however, the change in other hematological parameters should be mentioned.