Effects of Half-Somersault and Brandt-Daroff exercise on dizziness, fear of fall and quality of life in patients with posterior canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: A randomised control trial.

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of Half-Somersault and Brandt-Daroff exercises on dizziness, fear of fall, and quality of life in patients with posterior canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (PC-BPPV). This study was conducted from July 2020 to November 2020. A total of 20 patients were enrolled in the study, through sealed envelope method, and assigned to two groups, A and B (10 in each).

First report of mecC gene in clinical methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) from tertiary care hospital Islamabad, Pakistan.

Background: Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is one of the leading causes of community and hospital acquired infections globally. The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence, study the carriage of antibiotic resistance genes and evaluate the molecular typing of S.

Assessment of inducible clindamycin resistance and Hyper Variable Region (HVR) of A gene in clinical staphylococci.

Objective: To study the prevalence of inducible clindamycin along with vancomycin and methicillin resistance and assessment of hyper variable region (HVR) of A gene among different clinical isolates of spp.

Methods: A total of 176 clinical isolates of were collected from Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad during 2014-2015. The sample sources were pus, blood, urine, sputum, tracheal secretions and tissue fluids.

Assessment of biofilm formation by pseudomonas aeruginosa and hydrodynamic evaluation of microtiter plate assay.

Objective: To assess the biofilm formation in clinical and environmental isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and to evaluate the hydrodynamics in microtiter plate assay and compare it with conventional assays for biofilm formation.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted at the Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2013-14, while the computational work was done at the National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad. The study comprised environmental and clinical isolates of pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Role of Intracellular Adhesion icaAD and agr genes in Biofilm Formation in Clinical S. aureus Isolates and Assessment of Two Phenotypic Methods.

Objective: To determine the role of and genes in biofilm formation and evaluate the consistency of two phenotypic methods for biofilm measurement.

Methods: A total of 81 clinical strains were included and analyzed for biofilm formation by two methods. The microtitration plate method was optimized using computational fluid dynamics and compared with the Congo red assay.

Prevalence of metallo-β-lactamase NDM-1-producing multi-drug resistant bacteria at two Pakistani hospitals and implications for public health.

Background: The rapid spread of metallo-β-lactamase producing clinical pathogens is a matter of great concern and with the addition of NDM-1 it poses more threat for public health as NDM-1 positive isolates show resistance to most of the antibiotics. The current study was carried out to determine the prevalence of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) and metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs), particularly NDM-1 in clinical multi-drug resistant isolates from two tertiary care hospitals in Pakistan.

Methods: A total of 356 clinical isolates were included in the study where 301 isolates were collected from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad and 55 were collected from the Mayo Hospital Lahore.