<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> <span lang="EN-IN">Like other sexually<strong> </strong>transmitted diseases (STD), ano-genital warts (AGW) is associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and this study of AGW was conducted among HIV positive and HIV negative patients. The aim of the study was to study the risk factors and clinical presentations of ano-genital warts in HIV infected patients</span>.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> <span lang="EN-IN">A comparative, cross-sectional, descriptive study of 25 HIV positive and 25 HIV negative (n=50) AGW patients between 15-60 years of both sex was conducted in Northern part of Bangladesh from July 2015 to December 2016. </span><span lang="EN-IN"> </span></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> <span lang="EN-IN">Significant association of HIV positivity (p&lt;0.05) was<strong> </strong>observed between age group of 15-30 years and HIV negative status (p&lt;0.05) in age group of 31-45 years. HIV positive status significantly higher in patients with self-admitted multiple sexual partners (p&lt;0.01), homosexuality (p&lt;0.05) and presentation with anal warts (p&lt;0.01). HIV negative status correlated significantly with single sexual partner admission (p&lt;0.01) and hetero-sexuality (p&lt;0.05). Gender did not show significant association with number of sexual partners or HIV positivity. Extra-genital or only genital warts had no association with HIV status. Co-STDs though more in number in seropositive group, did not show any significant association with HIV positivity (p&gt;0.05). No patient presented with changes of malignancy. Four were adolescents below 19 years. Two patients had atypical presentations of giant condylomata i.e., Buschke-Lowenstein tumour (BLT)</span>.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> <span lang="EN-IN">HIV positivity was significantly associated with<strong> </strong>the risk factors of age below 30 years, homo sexuality and multiple sexual partners. Anal warts were significantly common in HIV positive patients. Four adolescents with AGW underline the need for high risk behaviour counselling. No patient had malignant AGW. Follow up of these patients with human papilloma virus (HPV) sub-typing is necessary. </span></p>

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> <em>Staphylococcus aureus </em>is a medicologically important pathogenic bacteria which is largely responsible for the thousands of human health hazzards. This study investigated the incidence of <em>Staphylococcus aureus </em>in various clinical samples from in- and outpatients attending Islami Bank Hospital, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> Clinical isolates from the hospital was confirmed as <em>Staphylococcus aureus </em>using standard bacteriological techniques. This study reports the isolation and identification of <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em>, coagulase negative staphylococci and catalase negative cocci in clinical samples at Islami Bank Hospital, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.  </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> Out of a total of 144 putative isolates of Staphylococci from urine, ear and wounds screened for <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em>, 87 of them were confirmed as <em>S. aureus</em>, 30 were coagulase negative staphylococci while 27 were catalase negative cocci. The high incidence of <em>S aureus </em>in this study compared to other staphylococci demonstrates the versatility and propensity of <em>S. aureus </em>to cause diseases.</p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> This is worrisome because of the high mortality and morbidity often associated with infections of this bacterium. It therefore calls for proper handling of specimen suspected to contain the organism or patients who might be at risk of infection. This is to avoid transmission to other patients and healthy individuals especially health workers as they might constitute vehicles for the spread of the organism. Further studies are recommended because of the small sample size in this study. This would help to establish whether this was peculiar to the Islami Bank Hospital Rajshahi, Bangladesh or wide spread in other hospitals in the country.