background: strongyloides stercoralis , the etiological agent of strongyloidiasis, is one of the most common parasitic nema­tode with the unique ability to complete its life cycle and proliferate within the host. although it is an endemic parasite in iran, no molecular characterization is available on isolates originated from the country. therefore, this study was con­ducted for molecular ident...

BACKGROUND Myocardial infarction (MI) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in Iran. No spatial analysis of MI has been conducted to date. The present study was conducted to determine the pattern of MI incidence and to identify the associated factors in Iran by province. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study has two parts. One part is prospective and hospital-based, and the other part is a...

BACKGROUND Among the available data provided by health information systems, data on mortality are commonly used not only as health indicators but also as socioeconomic development indices. Recognizing that in Iran accurate data on causes of death were not available, the Deputy of Health in the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOH&ME) established a new comprehensive system for death reg...

conclusions it was shown that partial β-tubulin sequence, as a reliable genetic target, supported specific morphological criteria for identification of the penicillium species. like other assessments throughout the world, p. chrysogenum remains the most frequent environmental penicillium species in mazandaran and tehran provinces. results sequence analysis of bt2 and morphological criteria of 2...

Noticeable variation was observed in a number of morphological characters in the Glycyrrhiza specimens in various habitats in north of Iran. To study these variations, two taxa related to the Hyrcanian region from all four known taxa of this genus in Iran, including Glycyrrhiza echinata, and G. glabra var. glabra were studied by numerical taxonomy using morphological characters in three provinc...

Bacterial blight (Xanthomonas arboricola pv.juglandis) is one of the main diseases of walnut that reduce the yield in the central, western and northern regions of Iran. This disease was first reported form, Qazvin and Mazandaran, then widely reported from northern, central and western provinces. To identify the cause of the disease in different provinces, infected leaves collected from Alborze,...