Mohammad-Saeed Sasan*1, MD; Fatemah Riyahi Zanian2, MS; Batol Birjandi3, MD; Mahbobe Naderinasab2, MD, PhD, and MohammadMahdi Ejtehadi2, PhD 1. Department of Pediatrics, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 2. Department of Microbiology, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 3. Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Received: J...

Bella Vista City, Corrientes, Argentina, reported an epidemic outbreak of tegumentary leishmaniasis during 2003. The mean age of the 31 cases was 25.0 +/- 13.7 years old, with a sex ratio male:female 1.8, and without mucosal involvement. They clustered in two contiguous neighbourhoods, 96% in the periurban border and 4% in the peripheral outskirts. The transmission peak was estimated to have oc...

1Department of Pathobiology and Laboratory Science, School of Medicine, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran; 2Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; 3Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran; 4Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Semnan U...

Ali Peiravi DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD, MASHHAD, IRAN [email protected] Abstract: Ambulatory monitoring and health care using wireless body area networks is an active area of applied research. In this study, a new method is presented to compute the connectance and reliability of wireless body area networks based on an improved...

N. caninum could cause abortion in small ruminants. The aim of the study was to detect N. caninum infection in ovine aborted foetuses in the Mashhad area by PCR examination. During the period 2009 to 2013, 71 ovine aborted foetuses were collected and their brain samples examined by PCR. Of the 71 brains of the aborted foetuses, N. caninum DNA was detected in seven (9.8%) samples. In conclusion,...

Received June 16, 2017. Revised August 11, 2017. Accepted September 27, 2017. Correspondence to: Hossein Karimi Moonaghi School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Ebne-Sina Street, Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran Tel: +98-51-3851-1511, Fax: +98-51-3859-07313, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commo...

Ethical misconduct is not a new issue in the history of science and literature. However, ethical misconducts in science have grown considerably in the modern era which is due to emphasis on the scientific proliferation in research institutes and gauging scientists according to their publications. In the current case series, several misconducts occurring over the previous years in Mashhad Univer...

The visceral larva migrans (VLM) is a syndrome observed in human infection with helminth larval eggs such as the Toxocara spp. that usually infects dogs and cats. Among the risk factors involved in the occurrence of VLM, particularly important is the size of these animal populations. Sorocaba is a city with a dog population twice as large as that recommended by the World Health Organization. Th...