Clinical and laboratory features in women with different phenotypes of polycystic ovary syndrome.

Background: Misdiagnosis is still an obstacle in the workup of polycystic ovary syndrome. We compared patients' characteristics among phenotypes of the syndrome and assessed the association of the characteristics with oligo-anovulation, hyperandrogenism, and polycystic ovary.

Methods: In the infertility department of a teaching hospital, we performed a cross-sectional study.

Helicobacter pylori in vegetables and salads: genotyping and antimicrobial resistance properties.

From a clinical and epidemiological perspective, it is important to know which genotypes and antibiotic resistance patterns are present in H. pylori strains isolated from salads and vegetables. Therefore, the present investigation was carried out to find this purpose.