Prevalence and Phylogenetic Analysis of Rhinoviruses in Patients with Acute Respiratory Infections and Community-Acquired Pneumonia in a Referral Hospital, Tehran, Iran.

Background: Rhinoviruses are known as the leading pathogens of respiratory diseases. Determining the prevalence and phylogeny of rhinoviruses plays a pivotal role in producing vaccines and medications and preventing virus complications. This study investigated the frequency, and genetic variation of rhinoviruses detected in patients referred to Masih Daneshvari Hospital.

Study of the toxicity of the essential oil of Brocchia cinerea.

Brocchia cinerea is a North African plant belonging to the Asteraceae family, widely utilized in Algerian folk medicine to treat a variety of illnesses. These therapeutic virtues are mainly due to the plant essential oil. The chemical components of this oil were identified using GC-MS, and the variability in these components' levels was examined in nine samples that were taken at different times from two locations in Algeria's northern Sahara.

Characterization and evasion of backscattered light in the squeezed-light enhanced gravitational wave interferometer GEO 600.

Squeezed light is injected into the dark port of gravitational wave interferometers, in order to reduce the quantum noise. A fraction of the interferometer output light can reach the OPO due to sub-optimal isolation of the squeezing injection path. This backscattered light interacts with squeezed light generation process, introducing additional measurement noise.

Molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2 in domestic cats in close contact with positively-infected owners in Tehran, Iran in 2021.

Objectives: In 2019, COVID-19 emerged in China and has since spread worldwide. Owing to the virus's ability to adhere to specific receptors, cats are susceptible to infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The popularity of pet cats in Iran has sparked fears of human-cat-human transmission of the virus.

Multicenter evaluation of rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing by VITEK®2 directly from positive blood culture.

Study Objective: To compare the antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) performance of positive blood cultures (PBC) VITEK®2 off-label use (D0) and traditional VITEK®2 workflow using isolated colonies after overnight (D1).

Methods: Patient samples with monomicrobial Gram-negative rod or Gram-positive cocci in clusters bacteremia were tested on D0 and compared to D1 AST results in 7 laboratories in France.

Results: Overall, categorical and essential agreement rates were 98.