Background and Aims: As the incidence of bacteraemia is on rise and it contributes to significant morbidity and mortality, so early diagnosis and appropriate treatment of blood stream infections is essential. The present study was aimed to know the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of blood isolates. methods: A total of 9010 specimens of blood received for culture during one y...

use for each and every act of intercourse.4 The use of condoms is recommended for individuals who have multiple partners, who have a primary partner who is infected, or who have a partner whose serostatus is unknown,5 although the absolute amount of protection they provide has not been accurately established. The effectiveness of the condom as a contraceptive provides insight into its usefulnes...

Volume 29, Number 6, November/December 1997 tive pills (the first 21 of each 28-day cycle) without interruption. Oral contraceptive protection is expected to decrease when two or more consecutive hormonally active pills are skipped.3 It is not uncommon for prolonged intervals to occur between doses of self-administered medication.4 Between one-third and one-half of users of medications in pill ...

spatial and stable view is the main and inevitable principle of city physical development progmming. along this approach, and because of social, economic and natural requirements, we studied the physical development of eghlid city.the development of eghlid city is limited because of being located in a closed mountainous location. indeed, negative and destructive consequences follow improper pro...

The prevalence of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii was conducted in 300 buffaloes from Ahvaz, Kouzestan province, south west of Iran. Blood sera were screened using a Modified agglutination test (MAT) incorporating 2-mercaptoethanol. Positive reactions in sera dilutions above 1:25 were considered as indicative for the presence of T. gondii antibodies. The overall prevalence of infection in the a...

The purpose of this research was to examine the possible effects of gender and age differences in psychopathy tendency and personality characteristics in an Iranian sample. The sample included 106 adolescents and 94 youth that were randomly selected from Eghlid city, Iran. Analysis indicated that psychopathy and personality were positively correlated in agreeableness and conscientiousness domai...

Objective: The mechanism by which elevated extracellular potassium ion concentration ([K+]o) causes dilation of skeletal muscle arterioles was evaluated. Methods: Arterioles (n = 111) were hand-dissected from hamster cremaster muscles, cannulated with glass micropipettes and pressurized to 80 cm H2O for in vitro study. The vessels were superfused with physiological salt solution containing 5 mM...