the caucasus region is located between the black sea and the caspian sea in south of the russian federation, north west of iran and north east of turkey. geographical situation and strategic significance of the south caucasus, have turned it to one of the most important parts of the world. in an atmosphere of the us -russia geostrategic competition and possibility of waging a cold war between t...

stool examinations of 402 inhabitants of 8 villages in and around an area near zahedan, and 280 people who had emigrated from the rural area of zabol, revealed the following: the prevalence of infection with ascaris, trichuris and trichostrongylus was very low (less than 5%) in all areas surveyed, while the mean infection rates found for h.nana, hookworm and e.vermicularis (by stool examination...

conclusions toxic causes with an incidence of 49.6% were the most common cause of loss of consciousness among all age groups. results among the 123 children under investigation, 76 cases were male (61.8%) and 47 females (38.2%) with the mean age of 3.2 ± 0.64 years. the most common causes of loss of consciousness among children were as follows: toxic causes in 61 patients (49.6%), infectious ca...

Introduction: Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) serotype A is endemic in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey, while sporadic outbreaks occur in the southern Middle Eastern countries. Periodically new genetic lineages appear to spread in a westward direction from Iran into Turkey, the best known event being the spread of the A22 strain throughout the Middle East from 1964 onwards. The precise orig...

*School of Nursing and and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ** Health Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran *** School of Para Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran **** Mehregan Hospital, Tehran, Iran *****Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Shahid Beheshti University ...