OBJECTIVE To determine the extent of protective equipment use (that is, helmets, wrist guards, elbow pads, knee pads) in a representative sample of in-line skaters. SETTING Fifteen municipalities throughout the province of British Columbia. METHOD A province-wide observational survey was conducted in the summer of 1999. Skaters were observed at four types of sites (commuter, recreational, n...

medics are native to semi-arid areas around the mediterranean sea and have long been used in degraded pastures in the region. annual medics are now widely distributed throughout the world, largely in areas with mild, rainy winters and alkaline soils. this study was conducted at a site located in the north east of golestan province (55° 57´ e, 37° 48´ n), on a silty clay loam soil in 2002 and 20...

leishmania infantum, an etiologic agent of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (vl), is spreading in iran. dogs are the main reservoirs but l.infantum has been detected in jackals, foxes and wild rodents too. despite high number of rodents in the world, the exact role of them in epidemiology of vl is not clear. in recent years the number of sporadic cases of dogs and humans vl has been increased in...

background: hepatitis c virus (hcv) is one of the main causative factors of liver disease which can lead to chronic hepatitis c infection in 80% of cases. hcv genotypes have a special worldwide geographic distribution. the goal of the present study was to detect hcv genotypes in patients with anti-hcv positive titers in golestan province, iran. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional stu...

Nematode were determined in 189 soil and root samples collected from 18 olive nurseries in Golestan province (northern Iran), between 2004 and 2008. which contain eight species belonging to eight grnera The important nematodes detected, in order of decreasing frequency of infestation (percentage of samples), were Aphelenchus avenae, Meloidogyne javanica, Irantylenchus sp., Pratylenchus thornei,...

Myiasis, the invasion of live human tissue by larva of Diptera, is reported in the nasal cavity of a 5.5-year-old Iranian girl. She was referred from Golestan Province to the Shaheed Rajaei Heart Center in Tehran. In the 41th day after admission, a live parasite was found in her nasal secretions suction identified presumably as a second instar larvae of a facultative myiasis, Woholfartia nuba (...

The assessment of the quantitative and qualitative changes, the result of the impacts imposed by natural factors, and human interventions during specific sampling periods has a substantial influence on nature, management method and tending operation of every region’s forests. The present research was carried out in Golestan province forests (Iran) over an 11- year period and the obtained statis...

background: infection with helicobacter pylori might be related to chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer and gastric adenocarcinoma. given the high prevalence of helicobacter infection in our region, this study was designed to determine the age trend of helicobacter pylori contamination in golestan province in 2008. materials andmethods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on 1028 ...