Background: Development of drug resistance to Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) has led to the use of older antibiotics such as macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B (MLSB) for the treatment of infections. MLSB resistance can be caused by several mechanisms, however, one of the predominant reasons is target modification mediated by erm gene...

acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) is a malignant disorder of lymphoid precursor cells, which could be classified according to morphological and cytochemical methods as well as immunophenotyping. twenty patients with all, who had been referred to the children's medical center hospital, during the year 2007, were enrolled in this study in order to evaluate the morphologic and immunophenotypic pr...

the aim of current study is to describe clinical similarities and differences between atopic and non-atopic asthma in children. in a cross-sectional study, 95 asthmatic children (75 allergics and 20 nonallergics) were included in the study. demographic, clinical, and familial history were compared between two groups. there was no significant differences between variables like sex, age of onset ...

toll-like receptor (tlr) 7 and 8 mediate anti-virus immunity and are of particular relevance to asthma. however, very little information about genetic association on tlr7/8 and asthma are available. this study aimed to evaluate the effects of polymorphisms in tlr7 and 8 on asthma risk and asthma-related phenotypes in a chinese han population. we enrolled 462 unrelated adult asthmatic patients a...