Ashwak B Al-Hashimy's scientific contributions

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The distribution of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosomal mec (SCCmec) types I, II, III, IV and V was assessed in 137 methicillin-resistant S.aureus (MRSA) isolates obtained from patients from different hospitals in Baghdad city. Each types responsible for certain virulence factors. It was found that 38 (27.73%) isolates of MRSA out of 137 contained...
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The present study included the collection of 100 samples from various clinical sources for investigating the presence of P. aeruginosa in those sources, the samples have been collected from some hospitals in Baghdad and Hillah city (Al-qassim General Hospital, ,Al-hillah teaching hospital,and Al-hashimya General hospital) which included wounds, bur...

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... MRSA shows drug-resistance to all beta-lactam antibiotics. Resistance is caused by a modified penicillin binding protein, PBP2a which is encoded by mecA gene (4)(5)(6). ...
... It was demonstrated that oprD gene with a band size of 1329-bp was detected in 9 isolates 90% out of 10 isolates of P. aeurginosa, but was not detected in 1 isolate this result similar to our study [19]. On the other hand, the current study differed with previous studies, [20], which pointed that the PCR detected oprD gene in 38 isolates 100% isolates of P. aeruginosa were isolated from a different clinical specimens. ...