Publications by authors named "M Arfaatabar"
Article Synopsis
- Vaccination is crucial for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and protecting vulnerable groups, especially those with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIIRD) who are prioritized for receiving the BBIBP-CorV vaccine.
- The study involved 200 participants (100 healthy controls and 100 AIIRD patients) and assessed antibody levels and adverse events before and after vaccination, revealing that AIIRD patients had significantly lower antibody responses than healthy controls.
- Despite a lower antibody response, both groups reported similar side effects from the vaccine, and previous COVID-19 infection was linked to higher neutralizing antibody levels in vaccinated subjects.
Background: is the most frequently isolated pathogen from prostheses infections in the body. Therefore, improving its diagnostic methods, including rapid Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAAT), seems necessary. Since the first step in designing a NAAT is to find a specific sequence and all DNA targets that have been introduced so far are not completely specific, we introduced a new 100% specific DNA target sequence to identify in this study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of slow growing mycobacteria (SGM) and rapid-growing mycobacteria (RGM) retrieved from hospital water sources in Iran from 2016 to 2020.
Methods: The review was conducted to get eligible published studies from 1 January 2016 to 25 March 2020 based on PRISMA protocol. A combination of related words from the Medical Subject Heading Terms (MeSH), with (AND, OR) were used to search for published studies reporting the prevalence of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in Scopus, MEDLINE, Web of Sciences, Google Scholar, and Iranian databases.
Cutaneous leishmaniosis (CL) transmitted by the bite of infected female phlebotomine sand flies endemic in many parts of rural and urban areas of Kashan, central Iran. Rare systemic allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis can occur in response to the bites of mosquitoes. In 2019, the patient was a 20-yr-old woman referring to the Health Care Centre in Kashan, central Iran, and complaint of symptoms allergic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFrequency of , and spp. among patients with atypical pneumonia in Tehran.
New Microbes New Infect
September 2020
, and are the most common bacterial agents, which account for 15-40%, 2-15% and 5-10% of atypical community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) respectively. These agents are mostly associated with infection in the outpatient setting. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of these pathogens among patients with CAP attending outpatient clinics in Tehran.
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