background: the present study was carried out on the human population of kashmir valley to evaluate the status of the biochemical parameters of infected population. materials and methods: blood samples were collected from 514 individuals, 298 (57.97%) males and 216 (42.02%) females, 187 (36.38%) were found sero-positive for human toxocariasis. results: alkaline phosphatase level was found highe...

In survey of infected samples to downy mildew of broadbean, Chenopodium murale and Rumex chalpensis using Olympus microscope (BH2) and valid keys and recently published papers, two species were identified (Choi et al. 2009, Ershad 2009, Telle & Thines 2012).

The article highlighted in this issue is ‘‘Human Respiratory Tract Cancer Risks of Inhaled Formaldehyde: Dose Response Predictions Derived from Biologically Motivated ComputationalModelingofaCombinedRodent andHuman Dataset,’’ by Rory Conolly, Julia Kimbell, Derek Janszen, Paul Schlosser, Darin Kalisak, Julian Preston, and Frederick Miller. In the featured article, Conolly et al. describe the de...

Ehrlichiosis is a zoonotic disease which has been reported from some regions of Iran. This study was aimed to determine the presence and prevalence of ehrlichiosis in suspected dogs referred to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran using polymerase chain reaction(PCR). Blood samples were collected from 98 suspected dogs with at least one of the five following findi...

Let A = (aij) ∈ Mn(R) be an n by n symmetric stochastic matrix. For p ∈ [1,∞) and a metric space (X, dX), let γ(A, dpX) be the infimum over those γ ∈ (0,∞] for which every x1, . . . , xn ∈ X satisfy 1 n2 n ∑

Leptospirosis is one of the zoonotic diseases caused by different serovars of the species Leptospira interrogans.  The source of infection in humans is usually either direct or indirect contact with the urine of infected animals.  In this study, 400 human blood samples collected from tribal areas of Farsan and Koohrang cities in West Centeral Iran.  The serum samples were analyzed employing Mic...

population density and spatial distribution of thrips tabaci lindeman on seven soybean varieties (williams, tellar, sahar, dpx, l17, sari and zane) and one genotype (ks3494) were studied in tehran region, during 2007. the highest population density of the thrips per leaf was recorded on dpx and on ks3494 (0.810.05 and 0.800.05, respectively). the lowest population density was observed on l17 ...