Phylogenetic analyses of VP1-coding sequences from viruses isolated from recent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) are described. The PanAsia strain of FMD virus type O continues to be widespread throughout Asia, although other type O strains are also cocirculating in many countries. A new type O strain has been detected in India and the Middle East. Apparently new strains of types A and...

Concentrated HIV epidemics have already occurred in IDUs in the neighbouring India, Myanmar and Nepal (WHO, Regional Office South-East Asia, 2008). Due to porous borders with India and Myanmar and central geographical situation between ‘Golden Triangle’(Myanmar, Thailand and Laos) and ‘Golden Crescent’ (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran), Bangladesh is a potential route of international drugs traf...

INTRODUCTION Asia and Pacific region is the largest region in the world with a vast geographic area of land and water, some 60 per cent of the world’s population and includes 55 countries as defined by the United Nations. The countries span a wide part of the globe from Iran and Armenia in the west to French Polynesia in the east, from the Russian Federation and Japan in the north to New Zealan...

Three new eriophyid species (Phyllocoptinae), Shevtchenkella denticulata sp. n., Notallus pestehae sp. n. and Echinacrus ruthenicus sp. n., were described from Eryngium thyrsoideum Boiss. (Apiaceae), Pistacia vera L. (Anacardiaceae) and Lycium ruthenicum Murray (Solanaceae), respectively. All the three new species were collected from southwest of the East Azerbaijan province, Iran in 2011. It i...

Red tide detection in the Strait of Hormuz (east of the Persian Gulf) using MODIS fluorescence data Masoud Moradi a & Keivan Kabiri a b a Department of Satellite Oceanography, Iranian National Centre for Oceanography, Tehran, Iran b Section of Numerical and Modeling Lab, Institute of Advanced Technology (ITMA), University Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia ...

The Bandar Bushehr, Iran earthquake of April 9, 2013 gravely illustrates how disaster-prone areas of the world are compounding their risk of disaster and major public health emergencies when there is a geographical convergence of natural and technological hazards. Scientists must emphasize to policy makers that ever-increasing regional industrialization and the broader introduction of nuclear f...

Oman is currently a particular “hot spot” for investment in a range of EOR techniques to produce heavy oil, but is much less visible in industry statistics than countries such as Canada and Venezuela. Other countries in the Middle East are encouraged by Oman’s success and, with the additional impetus of increasing oil prices, are becoming more active in heavy oil production. For example, Iran a...

introduction: this study aimed to prospectively analyze the effect of a major earthquake on the prevalence of psychological disorders such as acute stress disorder (asd), anxiety, depression, mixed anxiety depression disorder (madd), phobia, aggressive behavior, insomnia, psychosomatic disorders and also socio-demographic aspects among residents of rural community sample in east azerbaijan, ira...

distribution of the genus chondrostoma in iran, which is mostly known from the caspian sea, tigris river, kor river and esfahan basins was mapped. the kura nase, chondrostoma cyri is reported from armenia, georgia and iran and it is found in the streams and rivers draining to the western coast of the caspian sea from the kuma river in the north southward to the kura and aras river basins in the...