significant dropping of infectious disease is owned greatly to antibiotic development industry. due to prevalence of drug resistance organisms alongside with other problems, scientists are focusing on medicinal plants. medicinal plants and their antimicrobial components are attractive alternatives for antibiotics. in the present project, the antimicrobial effects of methanolic extract and fract...

Significant dropping of infectious disease is owned greatly to antibiotic development industry. Due to prevalence of drug resistance organisms alongside with other problems, scientists are focusing on medicinal plants. Medicinal plants and their antimicrobial components are attractive alternatives for antibiotics. In the present project, the antimicrobial effects of methanolic extract and fract...

deep-seated fungal infection present with non specific symptoms and involove a large number of different organisms. dna-based technology offers for eariler detection of fungal pathogens and then earlier initiation of antifungal therapy. in this study universal primers common to almost all fungi were used to amplification of internal transcribe spacer 1 and 2 region. subsequent restriction enzym...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of Aspergillus fumigatus and Candida albicans in the sputa of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), to assess serologic IgE responses of these patients to the presence of fungi in the sputum, to evaluate what effect this may have on clinical status, and to determine how the above-mentioned factors relate to allergic bronchop...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical significance of Aspergillus fumigatus and Candida albicans in respiratory secretions from patients with cystic fibrosis and to assess the immune response to these fungi in serum. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study included 66 patients with cystic fibrosis (34 men; mean age, 16.2 years). Sera from 15 healthy individuals were used as contr...

Toll-like receptors mediate macrophage recognition of microbial ligands, inducing expression of microbicidal molecules and cytokines via the adapter protein MyD88. We investigated the role of MyD88 in regulating murine macrophage responses to a pathogenic yeast (Candida albicans) and mold (Aspergillus fumigatus). Macrophages derived from bone marrow of MyD88-deficient mice (MyD88(-/-)) demonstr...

Nepeta depauperata belongs to the Lamiaceae family and is one the Persian endemic plants which has not been investigated biologically. In the present paper we had focused on the assessment of the antibacterial and antifungal activities of the total methanolic extract and different sub-fraction of the flowering aerial parts of it. The Antibacterial and antifungal activities were investi...

nepeta depauperata belongs to the lamiaceae family and is one the persian endemic plants which has not been investigated biologically. in the present paper we had focused on the assessment of the antibacterial and antifungal activities of the total methanolic extract and different sub-fraction of the flowering aerial parts of it. the antibacterial and antifungal activities were investigated by ...

results the minimum inhibitory concentrations (mics) of ginger extract for evaluated strains were 40, 40, 20, 20, 20, 20, 10, and 5 mg/ml for pseudomonas aeruginosa, escherichia coli, staphylococcus aureus, klebsiella pneumoniae, bacillus cereus, acinetobacter baumannii, c. albicans, and c. krusei, respectively. ginger extract successfully inhibited biofilm formation by a. baumannii, b. cereus,...

methods the mice were divided into six groups including a normal control group, a placebo group, and three treatment groups receiving 50, 100, and 200 mg/kg doses of hydroalcoholic extract via intraperitoneal (ip) injection followed by inoculation with c. albicans. a control+ group, inoculated only with c. albicans, was also employed. after all treatments, the mice were killed by cervical decap...