The 18 species of finless snake eels of the genus Apterichtus (family Ophichthidae, subfamily Ophichthinae) are reviewed. Included are: A. anguiformis from the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic; A. ansp from the Carolinas to Brazil in the western Atlantic; A. australis from South and Central Pacific islands, including Japan; A. caecus from the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic; A. equatoriali...

background meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes, which surround the brain and spinal cord. early treatment of bacterial meningitis can prevent serious complications. in the last two decades, three vaccines have been developed against the three main bacterial species implicated in meningitis of children in western countries and vaccine-preventable invasive bacterial meningitis has decr...

the association of hla class ii genes with ulcerative colitis (uc) as an autoimmune disease has been investigated for several years. however, factors responsible for genetic predisposition of this disease have so far not been clearly understood. in this study, for the first time, we aimed to investigate the association between hla-drb1 types and uc in the population of kerman, a city southeast ...

background: the malaria early warning system is defined as the use of prognostic variables for predicting the occurrence of malaria epidemics several months in advance. the principal objective of this study was to provide a malaria prediction model by using meteorological variables and historical malaria morbidity data for malaria-en­demic areas in south eastern iran. methods: a total of 2002 l...

Professional ethnography did not enter Iran until the late fifties. For a variety of reasons which are largely nonIranian and non-anthropological the anthropologists who have worked in Iran since then have concentrated their attention on pastoral nomads, and little work of any anthropological significance has been done in the village sector of Iranian society. My general interest in the histori...

Sir, In Asia, Illicit opium and cannabis are produced mainly in Afghanistan, which makes major social and health problems for some countries, particularly Iran as the neighborhood. [1] In Iran, opium and hashish have been used for near 300 years, [2] but other drugs such as heroin, buprenorphine, cocaine, tramadol, and ecstasy are new drugs of abuse in this country. [3-6] Abuses of the new drug...

background: epidemiologic aspects of oral and pharyngeal cancers in iran have not been studied adequately. we evaluated age-adjusted incidence rates by sex using pathological confirmed cases between 1991 and 2002 in kerman province, south east­ern iran. methods: the information of cases was collected actively from all of the 18 histopathology departments around the prov­ince. the standardize ri...

human linguatulosis poses an important medical and veterinary concern in en-demic countries. animals, as reservoir host, play a major role in transmission of infestation and epidemiology of the disease. this study reports a case of human linguatulosis caused by linguatula serrata in the city of kerman, south-eastern iran. a woman suffering from upper respiratory symptoms is presented. the pa-ti...