Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the characteristics of pedal errors by younger and older drivers that relate to sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) accidents. Background: SUA during an accident is a serious issue that causes numerous critical injuries and deaths every year. Previous studies have indicated that the major factor in these accidents is pedal error; howeve...

objective: because of functional impairment caused by generalized anxiety disorder and due to cognitive side ‎effects of many anti-anxiety agents, in this study we aimed to evaluate the influence of passion ‎flower standardized extract on reaction time in patients with generalized anxiety disorder.‎ method: thirty patients aged 18 to 50 years of age, who were diagnosed with generalized anxiety ...

conclusions in conclusion, the prevalence of hcv genotype 1 was 51.7%, which was lower than the rates reported in other studies in turkey, while the prevalence of hcv genotype 3 was 46%, which was remarkably higher than the reported turkish data. in addition, the prevalence rate for genotype 3 reported in the present study is the highest that has ever been reported in the literature. results th...

conclusions findings of the present study showed that hcv genotype 3 was the predominant genotype followed by the subtypes 1a and 1b in yazd, central province of iran. in addition, there was no difference between hcv load and genotypes 1 and 3. hcv genotyping is recommended in other provinces of iran. objectives the main aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of hcv genotypes in yazd,...

background: discovery of short cell free fetal dna (cffdna) fragments in maternal plasma has created major changes in the field of prenatal diagnosis. the use of cffdna to set up noninvasive prenatal test is limited due to the low concentration of fetal dna in maternal plasma therefore, employing a high efficiency extraction method leads to more accurate results. the aim of this study was to ev...

background: bordetella pertussis is the causative agent of pertussis. in brazil, laboratory diagnosis of pertussis is based on the culture. in 2010, was standardized the real-time pcr taqman® in routine diagnosis. objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact achieved with the introduction of rt-pcr for the routine diagnosis of pertussis and to compare with the results obtained f...