Conclusions: We found no significant difference between TMP/Ds and KMPs in terms of microbial contamination, but TMP/Ds harboured more colonies and total microbial counts increased with screen size.

Conclusions: Treatment outcome was successful in young and educated PTB patients who had drug resistance, previous treatment history, and no comorbidities. Knowledge of the factors affecting treatment success will lead to ...

Conclusions: Increased serum ferritin levels may suggest a significant role of hemophagocytosis in the pathogenesis of CCHF and may be a useful marker for diagnosis, disease activity, and prognosis. (C) 2009 International ...

Conclusions: Both systems may easily be used for clonal relationships of K. pneumoniae strains. The DL system was clearly more rapid and convenient than PFGE, but its discriminatory power seemed to be inferior to that of ...

Conclusions: These results showed that public telephones are contaminated with various types of microorganisms and the level of contamination changes significantly with time. (C) 2005 The British Infection Society. Published ...

Conclusions: Nail scissors, shared-use of nail scissors, and duration of shared use play important roles in household transmission of HBV. Level of education within society in this regard should be increased via mass media. ...

Objective: Increased serum ferritin (SF) levels are encountered in various conditions, such as inflammatory syndromes and haemochromatosis. Interferon alpha is one of the stimulants of SF. In this study we aimed to evaluate ...

Conclusions: In most of the 22 types of SP analyzed, our SSI rates were higher than the CDC NHSN rates and similar to the INICC rates. This study advances the knowledge of SSI epidemiology in Turkey, allowing the implementation ...