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Nosocomial infections, also called health-care-associated or hospital-acquired infections, are a subset of infectious diseases acquired in a health-care facility. Historically, Staphylococci, Pseudomonas, and Escherichia coli have been the common known as nosocomial infection bacteria. Moreover, nosocomial pneumonia, surgical wound infections, and vascular access-related bacteremia have caused the most illness and death in hospitalized patients; and intensive care units have been the epicenters of antibiotic resistance . Acquired antimicrobial resistance is the major problem, and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is the pathogen of greatest concern. The shift to outpatient care is leaving the most vulnerable patients in hospitals. Aging of our population and increasingly aggressive medical and surgical interventions, including implanted foreign bodies, organ transplantations, and xenotransplantation, create a cohort of particularly susceptible persons. Moreover, renovation of aging hospitals increases risk of airborne fungal and other infections . To prevent and control these emerging nosocomial infections, we need to increase national surveillance, "risk adjust" infection rates so that inter hospital comparisons are valid, develop more noninvasive infection-resistant devices, and work with health-care workers on better implementation of existing control measures such as hand washing . In this review we aimed to review the previous projects which study incidence of hospital infection among delivery women with caesarean section in hospitals. Also, to discuss about the nosocomial infections and its types. We will also review the most common way a nosocomial infection is acquired, and the most common cause of nosocomial infection. In order to the modes of transmission of infection. In addition to a way to prevent nosocomial infections in hospitals.

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the latest pandemic with a high rate of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Crises like these can harm the academic functioning and psychophysical health of students. Students have an important role in controlling the spread of infectious diseases by pursuing prophylactic measures and this quantitative study. Objectives: the study aims to explore how students perceive the COVID-19 crisis and what their personal experiences were while studying during the global pandemic. Methodology: It is a descriptive study on Preventive measures pursued by college students for the prevention of Coronavirus, where the sample was collected from twenty-five universities, were collected (427) among students who are studying in a different field, and the majority of them was studied at the University of Kufa (53%), the samples were collected by a questionnaire prepared and designed in two parts, the first part consists of demographic information (7 items) and the second part Preventive measurement pursued by college students (18th item). Results: The study showed that the means of scores of satisfaction of the preventive measurement (high), and also there is a no relationship between the demographic information and preventive measures, the overall total assessment is also high. Recommendations: Overall, the researcher was able to prove that college students have sufficient knowledge and awareness of COVID-19, and the majority are willing to apply safety measures in the prevention of the coronavirus Continued access to online health information resources like free courses, clinical management guidelines, and webinars on COVID-19 offered internationally.

Abstract: Tuberculosis vaccines capable of reducing disease worldwide have proven difficult to develop. BCG is effective in limiting childhood disease, but adult TB is still a major public health issue. Development of new vaccines requires identification of antigens that are both spatially and temporally available throughout infection, and immune responses to which reduce bacterial burden without increasing pathologic outcomes. Subunit vaccines containing antigen require adjuvants to driveappropriatelong-livedresponses. Wegeneratedatriple-antigenfusioncontainingthevirulenceassociated EsxN (Rv1793), the PPE42 (Rv2608), and the latency associated Rv2628 to investigate the balance between bacterial reduction and weight loss in an animal model of aerosol infection. We found that in both a low pattern recognition receptor (PRR) engaging adjuvant and a high PRRengaging adjuvant (MPL/TDM/DDA) the triple-antigen fusion could reduce the bacterial burden, but also induced weight loss in the mice upon aerosol infection. The weight loss was associated with an imbalance between TNFα and IL-17 transcription in the lung upon challenge. These data indicate the need to assess both protective and pathogenic responses when investigating subunit vaccine activity.

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is able to persist in the body through months of multi‐drug therapy. Mycobacteria possess a wide range of regulatory proteins, including the protein kinase B (PknB) which controls peptidoglycan biosynthesis during growth. Here, we observed that depletion of PknB resulted in specific transcriptional changes that are likely caused by reduced phosphorylation of the H‐NS‐like regulator Lsr2 at threonine 112. The activity of PknB towards this phosphosite was confirmed with purified proteins, and this site was required for adaptation of Mtb to hypoxic conditions, and growth on solid media. Like H‐NS, Lsr2 binds DNA in sequence‐dependent and non‐specific modes. PknB phosphorylation of Lsr2 reduced DNA binding, measured by fluorescence anisotropy and electrophoretic mobility shift assays, and our NMR structure of phosphomimetic T112D Lsr2 suggests that this may be due to increased dynamics of the DNA‐binding domain. Conversely, the phosphoablative T112A Lsr2 had increased binding to certain DNA sites in ChIP‐sequencing, and Mtb containing this variant showed transcriptional changes that correspond with the change in DNA binding. In summary, PknB controls Mtb growth and adaptations to the changing host environment by phosphorylating the global transcriptional regulator Lsr2.

تم عقد حلقة نقاشية على كيفية ملئ استمارة التحقق للمعايير العراقية لجودة المختبرات التعليمية

اقام فرع العلوم الاساسية مع شعبة النشاطات الطلابية مهرجان ثقافي بمناسبة اليوم العالمي للغة العربية بتاريخ 18-12-2022

اقامت كلية التمريض بالتعاون مع دائرة صحة النجف- قسم الصحة العامة وحدة النوع الاجتماعي حملة تثقيفية توعوية تطوعية بعنوان اكتوبر الوردي للتوعيه حول الكشف المبكر عن سرطان الثدي

تم عقد ورشة عمل لكل مسؤولي المختبرات في كلية التمريض لغرض توعيه الطلبة بالاحتياطات الواجب اتخاذها قبل دخولهم المختبرات

حلقة نقاشية بعنوان ( مقاومة الأنسولين ) والتي حضرها تدريسيين وموظفين كليتنا وهي حالة فيزينولوجية يصبح فيها الانسولين اول فعالية في تخفيض مستوى السكر في الدم يمكن لها ان ترتفع الى عدة مستويات تصل الى خارج نطاق المستوى العادي وتسبب اثار صحية ضارة

ورشة عمل بعنوان (معايير المختبر الجيد والمشاكل التي تواجه المختبرات) لسؤولي اعتماد المختبرات في كليات الجامعة ، تضمنت الورشة محاضرة القتها مديرة قسم الجودة الدكتورة الاء الناهي حول معايير المختبر الجيد ومحاضرة اخرى للدكتورة كوثر عدنان عن المشاكل التي تواجه مختبرات الكليات وتطرق المحاضرون لآلية العمل في المختبرات وكيفية كتابة الطرائق الإجرائية المطابقة لمواصفات الجودة ، وخلصت الورشة الى ضرورة اخضاع المختبر إلى منظومة حماية متكاملة والاهتمام بالطرائق الاجرائية المتمثلة بضبط الوثائق والسجلات وبيئة العمل والإجراءات التصحيحية والوقائية للمختبر .