INTRODUCTION A devastating earthquake is inevitable in the long term and likely in the near future in Iran. The objective of the study was to assess the knowledge of hospital staff to disaster management system in hospital and to determine nonstructural safety assessment in Shahid Mohammadi hospital in Bandar Abbas city of Iran. This hospital is the main referral hospital in Hormozgan province ...

During a survey in 2020, Hormozgan province, the following symptoms were observed zucchini crops growing field: leaf curling, yellow mosaic, swelling of veins young leaves, and shortening internodes. Because importance Tomato Leaf Curl New Delhi Virus (ToLCNDV) other Iran, presence this virus plants was evaluated by PCR amplification coat protein gene. Sequence analysis confirmed ToLCNDV infect...

mangrove sediments were collected during wet and dry seasons from nine stations in khamir,laft and natural reservoir mangrove-dense areas of hormozgan province in the south of iran. σ pcbs ranged from 5.33 to 15.5 ng/g dry weight and the dominant congener was no.153. average σ ddts for khamir and laft mangroves were 16.58 ± 1.51 and 18.8 ± 9.98 ng/g dry weight. ddt was more abundant than dde an...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to detect low parasite and asymptomatic malaria infections by means of three malaria diagnostic tests, in a low transmission region of Minab district, Hormozgan Province, southern Iran. METHODS Blood samples of 200 healthy volunteers from Bagh-e-Malek area were evaluated using microscopic, rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) and nested-PCR to inspect malaria para...

INTRODUCTION Preterm labor is the main cause of infants' death, and the main reason for undesirable consequences of pregnancy which still occur in some births, despite all of the interventions in this regard. The aim of this study was to evaluate every preterm birth and determine its maternal risk factors in Hormozgan province in 2013. METHODS This case-control study was conducted in 2013 on ...

Hormozgan Province is located in the south of Iran bordering the Persian Gulf. In this area, malaria is still considered a major health problem. In the province, eleven species of Anopheles were identified: An. pulcherrimus, An. sergenti, An. apoci, An. multicolor, An. subpictus, An. turkhudi, An. fluviatilis, An. stephensi, An. d'thali, An. superpictus, and An. culicifacies, among which only t...

Background. Considering that Hormozgan province in Iran (southern part of Iran on the Persian Gulf) is among the areas with high prevalence of MDR-MTB and attracts so many sailors and tourists, genetic diversity of MTB isolates circulating in this part of Iran was evaluated. Pattern of TB transmission was also examined. Methods and Material. A total of 38 isolates of MTB were cultured from TB p...

BACKGROUND The aim was to evaluate the relapse risk of vivax malaria in patients who received radical treatment in Hormozgan Province, a malarious area located on southeast of Iran. METHODS A total of 95 symptomatic vivax malaria infected patients were enrolled in urban health centers of Bandar-Abbas, Minab, Bandar-Jask and Bashagard districts of Hormozgan Province, southeast of Iran from Jan...