Contamination of human and animal body tissues with flies' larvae and diptera cause myiasis. A 26 yr old female patient refers to Kashan Shahid Beheshti Hospital, central Iran because of urogenital infection, pain in the right part of stomach, smelly and reddish vaginal discharge and frequent urination. In the first checking, urine sample was taken. In the sample, active and alive larvae were s...

Three new and atypical species of Afrotropical Calamoncosis are described: Calamoncosis agricola sp. n. (type locality- South Africa: 15 km E Klaserie); Calamoncosis flavida sp. n. (type locality-South Africa: Roodewal); and Calamoncosis unicornis sp. n. (type locality-South Africa: 15 km E Klaserie). Calamoncosis unicornis exhibits extreme modification and sexual dimorphism in the antenna; in ...

BACKGROUND Globally more than a billion people, 15% of the population, lives with disability and most of disabilities are caused by injuries. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of disability and its predictors at 1 and 3 months post-injury in Kashan City during 2014 - 2015. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this longitudinal follow-up study, 400 injured patients 15 - 65 y...

We measured the spatial pattern of particle number (PN) concentrations downwind from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with an instrumented vehicle that enabled us to cover larger areas than allowed by traditional stationary measurements. LAX emissions adversely impacted air quality much farther than reported in previous airport studies. We measured at least a 2-fold increase in PN co...

background: ophthalmia neonatorum (on) also known as neonatal conjunctivitis is inflammation of the conjunctiva caused by aseptic or septic factors. it commonly affects newborns usually within the first month of life. this study aimed to determine the prevalence and socio-demographic characteristics of on in calabar, nigeria. methods: we retrieved all the clinical case notes with diagnosis of o...

BACKGROUND Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic arbovirosis for which the primary hosts are domestic livestock (cattle, sheep and goats). RVF was first described in South Africa in 1950-1951. Mechanisms for short and long distance transmission have been hypothesised, but there is little supporting evidence. Here we describe RVF occurrence and spatial distribution in South Africa in 2008-11, an...

We report the observation of four gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) nests and several adults south of the previously recognized southern limit of the species’ breeding distribution in eastern North America. Our southernmost observation extends the known breeding range approximately 400 km to the south. The northern forest tundra biome could delineate the southern limit to the breeding range of the g...

the alborz mountains, as a folded and faulting region, is the northern region of crust shortening in iran. dominant mechanism (harvard, 2002) of alborz earthquakes is left-lateral strick-slip paralleled to the range. east alborz is one of the active regions that plays a significant role in the tectonics of its neighbors like south casbin basin. regarding the geological maps of the area, the fau...

S U M M A R Y We investigate the crust and uppermost mantle velocity structure beneath the Laccadive Island through the inversion of teleseismic receiver functions following the neighbourhood algorithm. The velocity structure suggests that the 16-km thick-oceanic crust is underplated by 8-km thick high-velocity layer (Vs ∼ 4.25–4.4 km s−1; Vp ∼ 7.35–7.6 km s−1). The uppermost mantle shear veloc...

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and molecular characterization of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) genes (qnrA, qnrB, qnrS, aac(6')-Ib-cr, and qepA) among ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in Kashan, Iran. A total of 185 K. pneumoniae isolates were tested for quinolone resistance and ESBL-producing using the disk diffusion method and double disk...