many microscopic-based epidemiological surveys on the prevalence of human intestinal pathogenic and non-pathogenic protozoa including intestinal amoeba performed in iran show a high prevalence of human intestinal amoeba in different parts of iran. such epidemiological studies on amoebiasis are confusing, mainly due to recently appreciated distinction between the entamoeba histolytica , e. dispa...

INTRODUCTION Bacterial meningitis persists in being a substantial cause of high mortality and severe neurological morbidity, despite the advances in antimicrobial therapy. Accurate data has not been available regarding the epidemiology of bacterial meningitis particularly in developing countries, yet. Indeed, the present systematic review provides a comprehensive data analysis on the prevalence...

BACKGROUND Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an uncommon neuro-inflammatory syndrome that has shown to be distinct from multiple sclerosis (MS) and associated with the autoantibody marker NMO-immunoglobulin G (IgG). There are still only a few studies regarding the epidemiology of NMO in Iran. In the present study, we tried to describe the epidemiology of NMO in Khuzestan as one of the densely popul...

travel a lot. He received his primary education in Tehran and Babolsar and his high school education in Bandar-e-Anzali, Gorgan, and Tehran. Shamsa graduated as a general practitioner (GP) from the University of Tehran in 1950. His GP thesis was on the reservoirs of Leishmania tropica in Iran.2 Shamsa served as an assistant at the Pasteur Institute of Iran (PII) during 1949 – 1955. In 1955, he ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Cholera is an endemic diarrheal disease in Iran, caused by Vibrio Cholerae. The epidemiology, transmission route, environmental determinants and antimicrobial resistant pattern of cholera have been changed during recent years. In this study the epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of cholera in Iran during 2013 outbreak was investigated. MATERIALS AND METHODS A ...

The prevalence of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) is set to stabilize in Western Europe and North America, as opposed to its increasing trend in developing countries in Asia. The epidemiology of IBDs in areas where the incidence and prevalence are relatively low provides an opportunity for researchers to determine the unknown aspects of them. In this review article, the PubMed and MEDLINE da...

Reza Chaman, Pooneh Zolfaghari1, Mohammad-Bagher Sohrabi2, Mahshid Gholami Taramsari3, Ahmad Khosravi4 Center for Health Related Social and Behavioral Sciences Research, 1Deputy of Public Health, 2Imam Hossein Hospital, 3School of Medicine, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, 4Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Shahroud University of Medical Sc...

Ilad Alavi Darazam , Atefeh Fakharian , Mohmmad Behgam Shadmehr , Atosa Dorudinia , Davood Mansouri 1,5 1 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and Clinical Immunology, 2 Chronic Respiratory Disease Research Center, 3 Tracheal Disease Research Center, 4 Department of Pathology, 5 Clinical Tuberculosis and Epidemiology Research Center, NRITLD, Shahid Beheshti University...