BACKGROUND The leprosy transmission chain is very complex and, in order to intervene in this transmission, more must be known about the factors linked to falling ill. There are doubts as to the influence of population size, population density and the disease's magnitude in detection rate trends. This paper aimed to identify factors associated with detection of leprosy in an endemic municipality...

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. (Corresponding autho ) PhD student, Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran. [email protected] 2. PhD student, Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Ira...

Behdad Tahayori 3 Department of Kinesiology and Program in Neurosciences, Indiana University 4 Bloomington, USA 5 Department of Physical Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shiraz University of 6 Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 7 Neurorehabilitation Program, the Crossing Rehabilitation Center, IUHealth La Porte 8 [email protected] 9 10 Bahman Tahayori 11 Neuroengineering Research Labo...

a Department of Food Science and Technology, School of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran 6 Fax: (+98)711-2286110; Tel: (+98)711-6138243. E-mail: [email protected] 7 b Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL), CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain. Fax: (+34) 91 0017 905; 8 Tel: (+34) 91 0017 900. E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] 9 c Department of Food Science, Engineering, a...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Cytotoxic Activity of Two Cembranoid Diterpenes from Nicotiana Sylvestris Against Three Human Cancer Cell Lines Amir Reza Jassbi, Marzieh Vafapour, Ardeshir Shokrollahi, Omidreza Firuzi, Mehdi Zare, Jima N. Chandran, Bernd Schneider and Ian T. Baldwin Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Department of Phyt...

Mirza Ali Mofazzal Jahromi, Seyed Younes Hosseini, Mahmood Bozorgmehr, Kazem Baesi, Kayhan Azadmanesh, Zuhair Mohammad Hassan, Seyed Mohammad Moazzeni* Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Gastroenterohepatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Nanobiotechnology Research Center, Avicenna Research Inst...

BACKGROUND Currently Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) are ranked tenth among the leading causes of death and ninth among all leading causes of disability worldwide. There has been no published study on RTA in Gulu municipality. There is a high frequency of RTA in Gulu municipality with poor road design and inadequate knowledge on road safety precaution among road users. OBJECTIVES To establish th...

Salvatore Gianluca Leonardi 1, Maryam Bonyani 1,2, Kaushik Ghosh 3, Ashish K. Dhara 3, Luca Lombardo 1, Nicola Donato 1 and Giovanni Neri 1,* 1 Department of Engineering, University of Messina, C.da di Dio, 98166 Messina, Italy; [email protected] (S.G.L.); [email protected] (M.B.); [email protected] (L.L.); [email protected] (N.D.) 2 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, S...

This work describes the knowledge and experience of dentists about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). A total of 273 dentists working at Shiraz, Iran were interviewed: 55% felt that they are able to define CPR, although only 37% had a correct concept; 51% believed they were able to perform CPR, however, none of them had received practical training in CPR; 4% of the interviewed professionals m...