Kizildag Ophiolites in the Hatay Area. Southeastern Turkey

Epidemiology of attempted suicide in Hatay, Turkey.

OBJECTIVE To determine suicide rates, sociodemographic risk factors, and reasons for suicide attempts. METHODS This hospital based, retrospective study consisted of 1613 suicide attempts brought to the emergency services of 8 state hospitals in Hatay, Turkey from January 2007 to December 2009. We obtained the data by retrospective analysis of patient record forms including information on age,...

An outbreak of aseptic meningitis in Hatay Province, Turkey.

A meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges with sterile bacterial cultures of CSF.1 Enteroviruses are the most commonly identified cause of aseptic meningitis worldwide. These viruses appear throughout the year, but in temperate climates they are strikingly more prevalent in the summer and fall. Because viral shedding from the gastrointestinal tract is more prolonged than is shedding from ...

Prevalence of Dirofilaria immitis in dogs from Hatay province, Turkey.

The present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of canine dirofilariosis in Hatay province, south of Turkey. A total of 269 blood samples were collected from owned dogs in this multi-centre survey between March and July 2006. Blood samples were examined by modified Knott and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) techniques to detect circulating microfilariae and antigens of Diro...

Pulmonary hydatid disease in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey

Role of supra-subduction zone ophiolites in the tectonic evolution of the southeastern Zagros Orogenic Belt, Iran

Ophiolitic rocks in the southeastern part of the Zagros Orogenic Belt can be separated from southwest to northeast, into two groups: the Neyriz ophiolites and the Naien–Shahrebabak–Baft ophiolites. The southeast sector of Sanandaj-Sirjan wasdelimited by the two nearly synchronous ophiolitic belts in its southwestern and northeastern margins. In this study, new ophiolitic formation models were u...