a review of the genus phasia latreille in iran is given. an identification key to the six iranian species of phasia and illustrations of their male and female terminalia are presented. the species phasia obesa (fabricius) and p. pusilla meigen are recorded for the first time from iran.

introduction: recently, the incidence of fungal infections dramatically increased with an appearance of many novel species due to different criteria. therefore, several molecular methods have been established for identification of these agents which cause human and animal disorder based on genomic dna. among these methods, rapd-pcr technique is a powerful discriminative method based on amplifie...

Large grocery stores are nowadays used by millions of people for the acquisition of an enlarging number of products. Product acquisition represents a complex process that comprises time spent in corridors, product location and checkout queues. On the other hand, it is becoming increasingly difficult for retailers to keep their clients loyal and to predict their needs due to the influence of com...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) facilitates automatic identification of items using radio-waves. This technology albeit initially introduced in the 1940s and 1950s, has seen a drastic increase in the number of applications and implementations in the recent years. This work aims to review some of the current developments in this field and to develop a taxonomic framework to classify litera...

conclusions in this study, snpcr was specific and more sensitive than the chromogenic medium chromagar™ candida for the detection of candida spp. insofar as it failed to identify only a few isolates. materials and methods we used snpcr with universal and species-specific primers to detect candida species in the culture of clinical isolates. by using universal primers, we carried out the amplifi...

some fungal species were isolated from scab or scab-like symptoms on leaves of various plant hosts in iran. some of them isolated from apple and pear leaves were investigated in the present study. the isolates were identified based on the morphological and cultural characteristics. on the other hand, for molecular identification and phylogenetic analyses were carried out based on the sequence o...

background: forensic odontology plays important role in identification of human remains in mass disasters such as air crash, tsunami, and accidents. palatal rugae act as an ideal requisite for human identification as they are present in all victims and are resistant to changes such as aging and trauma. the study aimed to analyze differences in shape and number of palatal rugae in population fro...

ornithobacterium rhinotracheale (ort), a species of bacteria, is known to be associated with respiratorydisease, growth retardation, mortality and decreased egg production. the aim of the present study was todetermine seroprevalence of the infection and to identify the microorganism by bacteriological and molecularmethods. in this study, 460 serum samples and also 290 tracheal swabs were collec...

background:  aeromonas spp. can cause diarrhea and various infections in humans. access to rapid techniques with a high sensitivity and specificity is strongly needed for the identification of aeromonas species. the aim of this study was to evaluate two different methods including api 20e bacterial identification tests and the molecular detection using pcr primers specific for 16s-rrna and 23s-...