Publications by authors named "Maryam 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 PDFBackground: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a major complication in patients who receive the kidney transplant. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of bacterial uropathogens isolated from Iranian kidney transplant recipients.
Methods: We searched according to Prisma protocol for UTI infection, prevalence, occurrence and distribution of bacteria and their pattern of antibiotic resistance among Iranian patients who receive kidney transplant through online electronic databases with MeSh terms and text words in published references in both Persian and English languages during 1990-2017.
Increasing macrolide resistance of strains is becoming a public health concern worldwide. Nevertheless, no comprehensive genomic background of circulating isolates is available in our region. We aimed to study the genetic diversity of this microorganism using the multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis method and to investigate the relationships between MLVA types and macrolide susceptibility profiles of the isolates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: is a common cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) worldwide, especially among children and debilitated populations. The present study aimed to investigate a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) technique for rapid detection of e in clinical specimens collected from patients with pneumonia.
Methods: Throat swabs were collected from 110 outpatients who suffered from pneumonia.
Introduction: is a major cause of atypical community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) with a prevalence range of 15-20% and up to 40% in adults and children, respectively. In Iran, the recorded frequency ranges between 1-6.15%.
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