This epidemiological review was carried out to display the magnitude and the geographic distribution of scorpion envenomation in Iran with focus on the southwestern region of Iran, particularly. The Iranian recognized scorpions belonging to two families, including Buthidae and Scorpionidae. Buthidae family consists of 14 genuses, 26 species, and 18 sub-species, while Scorpionidae family has thr...

Iran has a long history in the use of medicinal plants and traditional medicine. Local people in the villages, especially the elderly, have useful information about health benefits and how to use these plants. Therefore, it seems that collecting and recording this information leads to the revival of this traditional knowledge. The current research is an ethnobotanical study on the medicinal pla...

Wound infections are one of the most common hospital acquired infections and are an important cause of morbidity and account for 70-80% mortality (Gottrup et al., 2005; Wilson et al., 2004). Wound infections can be caused by different groups of microorganisms like bacteria, fungi and protozoa. However, different microorganisms can exist in polymicrobial communities especially in the margins of ...

Invariant subspaces and eigenfunctions for regular Hecke operators actinng on spaces spanned by products of even number of Igusa theta constants with rational characteristics are constructed. For some of the eigenfunctions of genuses g = 1 and 2, the corresponding zeta functions of Hecke and Andrianov are explicitely calculated.

BACKGROUND The repertoire of free-living protozoa in contact lens solutions is poorly known despite the fact that such protozoa may act as direct pathogens and may harbor intra-cellular pathogens. METHODS Between 2009 and 2014, the contact lens solutions collected from patients presenting at our Ophthalmology Department for clinically suspected keratitis, were cultured on non-nutrient agar ex...

iran has a long history in the use of medicinal plants and traditional medicine. local people in the villages, especially the elderly, have useful information about health benefits and how to use these plants. therefore, it seems that collecting and recording this information leads to the revival of this traditional knowledge. the current research is an ethnobotanical study on the medicinal pla...