Recent archaeological research has highlighted the potential role of mobile pastoral groups in diffusion raw materials and technological innovations between southern Caucasus north-western Iran from Neolithic onwards. Two successive projects, PAST-OBS SCOPE, were designed to explore this hypothesis through study obsidian consumption patterns Bronze Age using a flexible analytical strategy that ...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a vector-borne disease, highly influenced by environmental factors, which is an increasing public health problem in Iran, especially in the north-western part of the country. A geographical information system was used to extract data and map environmental variables for all villages in the districts of Kalaybar and Ahar in the province of East Azerbaijan. An attemp...

The wheat thrips, Haplothrips tritici, is known from across eastern Europe and adjoining areas of Asia into western Europe and north Africa, and is widely regarded as a pest of cultivated cereal crops, particularly of Triticum but also of Hordeum (Özsisli 2011). The identity of this thrips species is not in doubt, but a closely similar species, Haplothrips cerealis, was described from Egypt (Pr...

One of the key purposes conservation selection strategies is to design a network sites support relevant biodiversity components and, therefore, decrease risk populations becoming isolated. To this end, it important be aware habitat locations target species and threats human activities, in order identify areas high priority. This paper takes Chaharmahal Bakhtiari province (Iran) as case study, h...

BACKGROUND Cancer is a major public health problem in the world. In Iran especially after a transition to a dynamic and urban community, the pattern of cancer has changed significantly. An important change occurred regarding the incidence of cancer at the southern shores of the Caspian Sea, including Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan province. This study was designed it investigate the epidemiolog...

BACKGROUND Despite significant reduction in global disease prevalence, leprosy still has a high rate of disability while its determinants are unfair and many of them are amendable. The objective of this study was to measure inequality of disability in leprosy in Iran. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study (2006-2007) on all living people affected by leprosy registered in W. Azerbaijan prov...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Pigeons are extensively kept for homing and racing purposes in Iran. The main objective of this study was to investigate dissemination of M. avium subsp. avium (MAA) in pigeon aviaries in Tabriz, North-western Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS Postmortem pathologic specimens from thirty-nine out of 140 birds collected from private flocks (n=3), were subjected to bacterial ...

Lyme disease is caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Depending on the stage of illness, infection may be limited to the skin or involve the cardiac, nervous and musculoskeletal systems. Herein, we report a case of Lyme disease in a 23-year-old woman from North of Iran (Mazandaran) in early-localized stage of erythema chronicum migrans. The diagnosis was confirmed by the presence of se...