Ali Taher

University of Thi-Qar · Faculty of Pharmacy

All previous studies that performed were either for only surveying about Toxoplasma gondii or only Cytomegalovirus without survey for both together in same pregnant woman that exposure to abortion therefore 167 samples of blood were collected from women who exposure to abortion and visited AL-Nassiriyah Maternity and Children Hospital during the pe...

Background: Nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among food handlers working in restaurants and cafeterias are the primary source of food contamination and food poisoning Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among food handlers workin...

Human Hydatidosis was studied in 265 surgically established cases at the Al-Zahrawi and Al-Sadder Hospitals of Amarah, S. Iraq, between 2000 and 2007. The range of the patients varied from 1.5 to ≥60 years, the greatest number of cases was in the age group 31-50 years, there were 162 females and 103 males, the ratio of rural to urban patients was 5...

Alkaloids are a class of chemicals that occur often in nature all around the world. These are extremely complicated compounds and biomolecules. Alkaloids are chemicals of a highly broad family of secondary plant metabolites; alkaloids, including anticholinergic, anticancer, diuretic, antiviral, antihypertensive, antiulcer, and analgesic, have been...

This study aims at using alcoholic extract of Curcuma longa L. rhizomes. The alcoholic extract has been prepared by using 20 gm. of dried powder that has extracted by Soxhlet extractor by using 200 m. of Ethanol "ethyl alcohol", the concentration of Ethanol is 95% for 12 hours. The obtained results have been used in order to stain the bacterial spo...

Most of rural people even today depend on plants for medicines. The use of complentary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become increasingly popular worldwide, such that an estimated 38% of American adults reported using a form of CAM in 2006. The study of herbal remedies is common because many diseases and infections are known to have been treate...

Review of Beta lactams

SHV-producing K. pneumoniae is mainly related to the development of plasmid-mediated extended-spectrum β-lactamases and more often involved with different infections, particularly among hospitalized patients. Fifty-nine isolates of K. pneumoniae collected from various hospitals from Baghdad city, Iraq. The MICs towards 17 antimicrobial agents were...

تيدف ىذه الد ا رسة إلى مقارنة بعض أنواع من المضادات الحيوية تعود إلى مجاميع مختمفة والمستوردة من مناشئ مختمفة . حيث تم ش ا رء ىذه المضادات من الصيدليات المجازة من قبل و ا زرة الصحة . حيث أخذت ثلاث بإذابة كل مضاد عمى حده بمقدار 10 مل من ( Ciprofloxacin و Cephalexin , Amoxicillin ( مناشئ لكل منيا. تم عمل مستخمص لكل من كان بشكل سائل وبعدىا عممت حفر دا...

The antibacterial effects of aqueous garlic extract and Crude Juice against 38Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial isolates, from burn unit were studied. The bacteria isolates were including Staphylococcus spp. , Serratia spp. , Pseudomonas spp., Enterobacter spp., Acinetobacter. Spp. and Ochrobactrum anthropi. were studied. Antibacterial acti...

Class 1 integrons play a role in the emergence of resistant bacteria by facilitating the recruitment of gene cassettes encoding antibiotic resistance genes. inhibition zone diameters were determined in tests with imipenem (IPM) and meropenem (MEM) discs alone and in combination with 1000 µg of EDTA Combined disk diffusion method was used for detect...

The aim of this study was to ascertain the incidence and clinical significance of Metallo β-lactamases (MBL) and Extended spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) among Enterobacter cloacae isolated from patients at Al-Imam Al-Hussein Hospital. We prospectively collected data on patients with Enterobacter infection during a 6-month period from the 1 st of Jan...

To identify the cause and the source of bacterial infection among patients of intensive care unit and to identify the ability of bacteria to produce biomass this study had been conducted in Al-Imam Al-Hussein hospital in Thi-qar province for the period from 1 st September to end of December 2011 .A total of 320 swabs and samples were collected from...

Cross- infection from patient to patient or from hospital personnel to patients represents constant hazards. It is one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality especially in Intensive Care Unit all over the world. To identify the types and the source of bacterial contamination in ICU and to study the sensitivity of bacterial isolates...

The antimicrobial activity of three species of marine Mollusca extracts, Sepia sp. ,Loligo sp. and marine snail Tibia insulaechorab-curta marked as S, L and T respectively were studied against five bacterial species of family Enterobacteriaceae (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa , Klebsiella oxytoca , Proteus mirablis and Serratia liquefacie...