BACKGROUND Sand flies of subgenus Adlerius has a wide geographical distribution in Iran and are mostly found in wild form in mountainous areas. They are always considered as probable vectors of visceral leishmaniasis. The objective of this study was to determine the Adlerius species and its composition in an endemic focus of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in northwest of the country. METHODS...

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INTRODUCTION Salmonellosis, which is caused by nontyphoid salmonella bacteria, is one of the most common foodborne diseases, and it causes gastrointestinal infections worldwide, most of which are limited gastroenteritis that requires antimicrobial treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of echinophora platyloba extract on inhibiting the growth of Salmonella typhi, Salmon...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to investigate the epidemiology of psychological problems in adolescents in five provinces of Tehran, Khorasan Razavi, Isfahan, East Azerbaijan and Fars in Iran. METHODS In the present cross-sectional and descriptive - analytical study, 5171 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years were selected through multistage cluster sampling method from Tehran, Isfahan,...

fungi associated with ascocarps of terfezia claveryi, tirmania nivea, t. pinoyi, picoa lefebvrei and p. juniperi in iran showed a wide range of genera and species in 94 samples collected during 2005–2009 from different regions including fars, systan and baluchestan, kerman, east azarbaijan, khuzestan, kermanshah and hormozgan provinces. thirty two species belonging to 21 genera were recovered f...

for evaluation of iranian onion morphotypes potentials and application of them in breedingprogrames, seeds of 23 iranian onion morphotypeswere collected from east azarbaijan (redazarshahrmorphotypes), tehran (red rey morphotypes), razavi khorasan (red neyshaboormorphotypes) and zanjan (gholyghese morphotypes). these onion morphotypes were planted inrcbd design in four replications in seed and p...

bronchopneumonia is one of the most important ovine diseases in iran. this disease can be due to bacteria, viruses and parasites. in the ruminants pulmonary worms are the most prevalent cause of this disease. this study was conducted to diagnose the infestation rate of pulmonary worms in small ruminants of east-azarbaijan. one thousand fecal samples were collected from sheep of different region...

this study aimed to determine phenolic compounds of artemisia spicigera (family asteraceae) growing in east-azarbaijan province of iran. 20%, 40 % and 60% spe fractions of methanolic extract of a. spicigera, were subjected to reversed phase preparative hplc, with the mobile phase consisted of methanol and water. structural identification of phytochemicals by spectroscopic methods including uv a...

background: the aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of antibody to neospora can­inum in healthy and aborted dairy cattle in tabriz, capital of east-azarbaijan in northwest of iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study serum samples were collected from 266 healthy and ab­orted holestein-feriesisnc cows from september 2008 to august 2009. the sera were analyzed to de­tect of a...