BACKGROUND The quality of drinking water has an important role in human infection and disease. This study was aimed at comparing polymerase chain reaction and culture in detecting Escherichia coli, Salmonella species and Vibrio cholera in tape water and bottled drinking water in various seasons in Isfahan province, Iran. METHODS A total of 448 water samples from tap water and bottled mineral ...

BACKGROUND Many studies have been performed regarding the prevalence of hepatitis E in the general population, but there is controversial evidence for an increased risk of the infection in patients on maintenance hemodialysis (HD). OBJECTIVES The primary end point of the present study was to determine if the prevalence of anti-hepatitis E virus IgG (anti-HEV IgG) is higher in patients on main...

BACKGROUND Considering the importance to determine the reasons for the higher occurrence of congenital hypothyroidism (CH) in Iran, in this study we report the prevalence of permanent CH (PCH) in Isfahan province 7 years after initiation of CH screening program in Isfahan. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, children with a primary diagnosis of CH studied. They clinically examined and thei...

Department of Natural Resources, Isfahan University of Technology, 84156 Isfahan, Iran b Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, P.O. Box 611, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Alberta Water Research Institute (AWRI), Edmonton, AB T5N 1M9, Canada Nanyang Technological University...

Ali Sharafi Chegeni, Behrouz Ezatpour*, Mohammad Saki, Hamid Mokhayeri, Siavash Adavi, Elham Nasiri, Mehdi Azami Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Deputy of Health, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Science, Khorramabad, Iran Aligoudarz health network, Lorestan University of M...

1Biofuel Research Team (BRTeam), Karaj 31438-44693, Iran 2Microbial Biotechnology and Biosafety Department, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran, Karaj 31359-33151, Iran 3Department of Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran 4Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), Bourns College of Engineering, University of Califor...

1Department of Physiology, Paramedical Sciences Faculty, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Electrophysiology Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Neuroscience Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Department of Neurophysiology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical...

*Corresponding author: Prof. Hamid Nasri, Department of Nephrology, Division of Nephropathology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Renal pathologists and nephrologists should be aware of the morphologic characteristics of APSnephropathy when they reviewbiopsies of lupus nephr...

Background. Nowadays, one sixth of the world's population is represented by adolescents, nearly 1.2 billion people being of age 10-19. According to the 2011 census in Iran, the estimation of adolescent population was 12 million, which represents 16% of the Iran population. Undoubtedly, adolescence is the most dominant stage of life. During this period, adolescents face biological, cognitive, an...