Introduction: Urinary tract infection is a common nosocomial infection that has recently become difficult to treat because of the increased emergence of multi-drug resistant strains. This study aims to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration, and molecular pattern of resistance to fosfomycin in Escherichia coli isolates originated from patients hospitalized with urinary tract infection i...

Vahedberdi Sheikh* & Razieh IzanlooWatershed Management Department, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran

In this study, we aimed to assess levels of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in relation to metabolic syndrome among postmenopausal women in Gorgan. The study group included 100 postmenopausal women who were referred to the different Health Centers in Gorgan. Body mass index, waist circumference, Hip, waist to hip ratio, diastolic blood pressure, triglyceride, fasting blood glucose and 25-hydroxyvitam...

investigation of velocity structure based on seismic wave propagation have been performed in recent years in different parts of iran that results obtained is effective in the analysis of seismic zones and locate earthquakes with reasonable accuracy. on a broad scale, the seismotectonics of southern iran are controlled by active convergence between the arabian and eurasian tectonic plates that a...

The Urban and Regional Multiscale (URM) model has been used to study the ozone problem in the northeastern United States. The model was applied to a multi-day ozone episode extending from July 2, 1988 to July 8, 1988. The URM model is particularly suitable for application to the Northeast as there is a dense network of urban centers along with large rural areas, and the model allows the use of ...

in a two-year study on natural enemies of tomato fruit worm, helicoverpa armigera (hubner) (lep.: noctuidae) in golestan province, two parasitoid wasps belonging to the family ichneumonidae were identified, which are newly recorded from iran: 1. hyposoter didymator (thunberg), which was collected in 8 july 2003, in seyed-miran, 9 km west of gorgan, and 2. ctenichneumon panzeri (wesmael), which ...

BACKGROUND Waste produced in dental clinics has been the topic of investigations for many years. These waste materials have important health impacts and are hazardous to humans and the environment. OBJECTIVE To investigating solid waste production and its management in dental clinics in Gorgan, northern Iran. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 45 of 143 public dental practices and 5 of ...

The Tazerj travertine deposits are located 25 km northwest of Haji Abad and 5 km northeast of Tazerj Village in Hormozgan Province, southern Iran. This area is part of the Folded Zagros Zone. The studied travertine deposits are located on Eocene deposits and were most likely formed through the dissolution and re-deposition of groundwater and atmospheric waters onto the Asmari limestone. The pet...

Jalil IMANI HARSINI*, Hamid-Reza REZAEI, Saeid NADERI, Hosein VARASTEH MORADI Department of Environment and Energy, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Department of Fisheries and Environmental Science, Faculty of Environmental Science, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Natu...