Genetic diversity and antibiotic resistance patterns of Escherichia coli isolates causing septicemia: A phylogenetic typing and PFGE analysis.

Introduction: This study aims to analyze clinical isolates of E. coli causing septicemia across various phylogroups utilizing the PFGE method.

Materials And Methods: A total of 100 clinical isolates were collected.

Relationship between spirometry results and colonisation of Aspergillus species in allergic asthma.

Introduction And Objectives: Exposure to fungi in patients with asthma leads to the release of various fungal antigens, which can increase the severity of asthma. Regarding this, the present study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between the colonisation of Aspergillus species and spirometry results in allergic asthma.

Materials And Methods: Two hundred sixteen patients with mild to severe asthma and 30 healthy controls were included.

Prevalence of specific immunoglobulin E and G against in patients with asthma.

Background And Purpose: as a ubiquitous fungus can be found in the respiratory tract of the asthmatic and healthy people. The inhalation of spores leads to an immune response in individuals with asthma and results in the aggravation of the clinical symptoms. The present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of specific immunoglobulin E and G IgE and IgG) against in asthmatic patients.

Fungal epidemiology in cystic fibrosis patients with a special focus on Scedosporium species complex.

In this present study, for the first time, we evaluated the cystic fibrosis (CF) patients for the Scedosporium species and their antifungal susceptibility against eight antifungal agents. During one-year period, 90 Sputum samples were collected from Iranian CF patients. All samples were evaluated by direct microscopic examination, culture onto four different media including Malt extract agar, Inhibitory mold agar, Brain Heart Infusion and Scedo-Select III.

Novel Point Mutations in and Genes Associated with Itraconazole and Posaconazole Resistance in Isolates.

is a common environmental species known to cause occupational allergic disease in grain handlers. We have recently observed azole-resistant isolates of this fungus as a cause of onychomycosis. To further characterize the cause of resistance, the genes encoding 14 α-sterol demethylase enzyme ( and ) were characterized and analyzed in 9 ITC-susceptible isolates and 6 isolates with high minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of clinical (nail and sputum) and environmental strains.

Fungal vaccines, mechanism of actions and immunology: A comprehensive review.

Fungal infections include a wide range of opportunistic and invasive diseases. Two of four major fatal diseases in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are related to the fungal infections, cryptococcosis, and pneumocystosis. Disseminated candidiasis and different clinical forms of aspergillosis annually impose expensive medical costs to governments and hospitalized patients and ultimately lead to high mortality rates.