The purpose of the study was to prepare and characterize curcumin (Cur) solid lipid nanoparticles
(CurSLN) with a high-loading capacity and chemical stability for the treatment of oral …

Sea foods are prone to bacterial contamination and could cause health risk to consumers.
The present work aimed to study the occurrence of Salmonella and Vibrio in some seafood …

Background The selection of an appropriate antimicrobial is a challenging task for clinicians.
The Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method is one of the most widely practiced antimicrobial …

The distribution of Toxoplasma gondii genotypes varies from one geographic area to
another. The present study aimed to determine T. gondii genotypes associated with human …

Long‐term endotoxin challenge may promote frequent complications in dialysis patients,
namely malnutrition, chronic inflammation, and atherosclerosis, which are recognized as the so…

A number of bacterial products such as endotoxins, exotoxins and peptidoglycans, produced
during bacterial growth and lysis, share the ability to induce cytokines and are known …

Background: Antiseptic agents or plain soap and water are mainly used for hand hygiene in
Egypt. The impact of hand hygiene depends not only on the regularity and thoroughness of …

Background & Objective(s): Campylobacteriosis is a zoonotic, food-borne bacterial disease
caused by Campylobacter spp. The most common pathogenic species are Campylobacter …

Background: Blindness is and, apparently always has been, a problem in Egypt. Corneal
blindness is a major public health problem in which; 1.5–2.0 million new cases of monocular …

Methods. A total of 321 samples of HD fluids, distributed as 213 from unit A (a governmental
unit), 108 from unit B (a private unit), both under the supervision of ministry of health, were …