Newcastle Disease (ND) is highly contagious infection of poultry that causes nervous signs and mortality in poultry. This study has been one during two years from 2010-2011 in Shiraz, Iran. The poultry industry in Fars province faced an almost heavy loss that was characterized by mild and in some flocks high mortality and respiratory distress. The aim of this study was designed to clarify the r...

Bovine venereal campylobacteriosis, caused by Campylobacter fetus subsp. venerealis (Cfv), is regarded as one of the major threats to the cattle industry around the world. Abortion and infertility are two important reproductive problems in cows infected with C. fetus subsp. venerealis. Reports on the presence of Cfv are scarce in the cattle, in Iran. Therefore, the present study was designed to...

BACKGROUND Annually over two million Muslims from across the world converge on Mecca to perform the Hajj pilgrimage. Overcrowding at the Hajj facilitates spread of communicable diseases, especially respiratory infections. The aim of this study was to determine the attack rate of seasonal and pandemic influenza among returning Iranian pilgrims after the 2009 Hajj. METHODS Clinical data and thr...

Drought is natural and climate phenomenon and in fact server as a part of climate in an area and also it has significant environmental ,social ,and economic consequences .drought differs from the other natural disasters from this viewpoint that it s a creeping phenomenon meaning that it progresses little and its difficult to determine the time of its onset and termination .most of the drought d...

In this study, the level of protection offered to rear seat occupants in frontal crashes is investigated. The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and National Automotive Sampling System Crashworthiness Data System (NASS CDS) databases were used for the analyses. The investigation focused on: 1- estimating the fatality protection effectiveness of the rear seat position relative to the righ...

İsmini hüküm sürdüğü engebeli ve yüksek coğrafyadan alan Elam Krallığı, çivi yazılı kaynaklarda “Yüksek Ülke” anlamına gelen “Elamtu” türevi sözcüklerle ifade edilmiştir. bugünkü İran’ın Huzistan, Fars, Luristan, Kirman Senendec bölgelerini içeren genel olarak Güneybatı İran bilinen coğrafyada MÖ 3-1. binyıllar arasında sürmüştür. Krallığa başkentlik yapan Susa Anşan şehirleri göz önünde bulund...

As an academic endeavor in EFL setting especially the field of reading comprehension, this study intended to examine intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and effects cultural familiarity on comprehension based two specific ethnicities (Turk Fars). To end, participants, 130 students majoring English, were chosen from three universities Iran. The students’ examined by utilizing types proc...

Türk Edebiyatını, üç ana bölüme ayırmak adet olmuştur: Eski Türk Edebiyatı, Türk Halk Edebiyatı ve Yeni Türk Edebiyatı diye. Türk Halk Edebiyatı'nın, Harput ve çevresinde, Türklerin bu yöreye yerleştiğinden beri var olduğunu tahmin etmek zor değildir. Ancak bu güne ulaşan bu edebiyat ve folklor varlıklarının bir çoğunun ne zaman meydana geldiğini ve tarih içerisinde ne gibi değişikliklere uğray...

BACKGROUND Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ZCL) is endemic in many parts of Iran. Recently its incidence is considerable in different parts of Jahrom district, in Fars Province, southern Iran. The aims of our study were to investigate the prevalence of leishmania infection, and identify and characterize the Leishmania species present, among the rodents by molecular methods in a new endemic fo...

BACKGROUND The objectives of our research were to search for Leishmania species in rodents in Fars province, south of Iran, and to compare molecular with conventional methods for detecting these parasites. METHODS Rodents were captured using live traps and screened for Leishmania species using molecular and conventional methods, including the taking of smears from each ear. Nested PCR was emp...