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    Vancomycin and nisin-modified magnetic Fe3O4@SiO2 nanostructures coated with chitosan to enhance antibacterial efficiency against methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in a murine superficial wound model

    The objective of this research was to prepare some Fe3O4@SiO2@Chitosan (CS) magnetic nanocomposites coupled with nisin, and vancomycin to evaluate their antibacterial efficacy under both in vitro and in vivo agai...

    Mona Nasaj, Abbas Farmany, Leili Shokoohizadeh, Farid Aziz Jalilian in BMC Chemistry (2024)

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    Evaluation of antibiotic resistance, toxin-antitoxin systems, virulence factors, biofilm-forming strength and genetic linkage of Escherichia coli strains isolated from bloodstream infections of leukemia patients

    One of the most common complications in patients with febrile neutropenia, lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma is a bloodstream infection (BSI).

    Mahdaneh Roshani, Mohammad Taheri, Alireza Goodarzi in BMC Microbiology (2023)

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    Co-delivery of streptomycin and hydroxychloroquine by labeled solid lipid nanoparticles to treat brucellosis: an animal study

    Can brucellosis-related biochemical and immunological parameters be used as diagnostic and treatment indicators? The goal of this project was to look at biochemical parameters, trace elements, and inflammatory...

    Narjes Morovati Moez, Seyed Mostafa Hosseini, Fereshte kalhori in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    Genoty** of Chlamydia abortus using multiple loci variable number of tandem repeats analysis technique

    The correlation between various factors (geographical region, clinical incidence, and host type) and the genomic heterogeneity has been shown in several bacterial strains including Chlamydia abortus.

    Sara Barati, Naghmeh Moori Bakhtiari, Leili Shokoohizadeh in BMC Veterinary Research (2022)

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    Molecular ty**, biofilm production, and detection of carbapenemase genes in multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from different infection sites using ERIC-PCR in Hamadan, west of Iran

    Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic pathogen that can cause several kinds of nosocomial infections. Increasing antibiotic resistance as well as identifying genetic diversity and factors associated with pa...

    Maryam Hazhirkamal, Omid Zarei, Mahsa Movahedi in BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology (2021)

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    Detection of adeABC efllux pump encoding genes and antimicrobial effect of Mentha longifolia and Menthol on MICs of imipenem and ciprofloxacin in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii

    Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic pathogen that causes nosocomial infections especially in patients in intensive care units (ICUs). Accordingly, the aim of our study was to detection of adeABC efllux pu...

    Hassan Mahmoudi, Leili Shokoohizadeh in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies (2020)

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    Genoty** and characterization of prophage patterns in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

    Staphylococcus aureus is considered an important pathogen with a variety of virulence factors in communities and hospitals all around the world. Prophage ty** is a practical technique for categorizing this bact...

    Mahya Dini, Leili Shokoohizadeh, Farid Aziz Jalilian, Abbas Moradi in BMC Research Notes (2019)

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    Genoty** and distribution of putative virulence factors and antibiotic resistance genes of Acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated from raw meat

    Acinetobacter baumannii strains with multiple antimicrobial resistance are primarily known as opportunistic nosocomial bacteria but they may also be regarded as emerging bacterial contaminants of food samples of ...

    Marziyeh Tavakol, Hassan Momtaz in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Contr… (2018)

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    Molecular analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from clinical, environmental and cockroach sources by ERIC-PCR

    The objective of this study was to investigate the antibiotic susceptibility, virulence factors and clonal relationship among Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from environmental sources, hospitalized patients and ...

    Omid Zarei, Leili Shokoohizadeh, Hadi Hossainpour in BMC Research Notes (2018)

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    Antimicrobial resistance patterns and virulence factors of enterococci isolates in hospitalized burn patients

    The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of the antimicrobial resistance and genes encoding virulence factors of enterococci isolated in hospitalized burn patients in a major burn center in A...

    Leili Shokoohizadeh, Alireza Ekrami, Maryam Labibzadeh, Liaqat Ali in BMC Research Notes (2018)

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    Frequency distribution of genes encoding aminoglycoside modifying enzymes in uropathogenic E. coli isolated from Iranian hospital

    Escherichia coli is considered as the most common cause of urinary tract infection (UTI) and acquired multiple resistances to a wide range of antibiotics such as aminoglycosides. Enzymatic alteration of aminoglyc...

    Neda Soleimani, Mahdi Aganj, Liaqat Ali, Leili Shokoohizadeh in BMC Research Notes (2014)

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    High frequency distribution of heterogeneous vancomycin resistant Enterococcous faecium (VREfm) in Iranian hospitals

    Enterococcus faecium is a multi-resistant nosocomial pathogen causing infection in debilitated patients. Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium (VREfm) are a major concern and increased dramatically worldwide ...

    Leili Shokoohizadeh, Ashraf Mohabati Mobarez, Mohammad Reza Zali in Diagnostic Pathology (2013)