BACKGROUND The quality of drinking water has an important role in human infection and disease. This study was aimed at comparing polymerase chain reaction and culture in detecting Escherichia coli, Salmonella species and Vibrio cholera in tape water and bottled drinking water in various seasons in Isfahan province, Iran. METHODS A total of 448 water samples from tap water and bottled mineral ...

drought is the most restricting factor in agricultural production in arid and semi-arid regions. this research was conducted on 19 facultative and winter wheat genotypes grown under normal irrigation (n), early post-anthesis (s1), and late post-anthesis (s2) drought stress conditions. the experiments were conducted at karadj, arak, and jolgehrokh agricultural research stations in iran, during 2...

Catecholamine drugs are aromatic vic-diols in which both the 3or 4-position is unsubstituted and these positions are not sterically blocked. Epinephrine(EP) or adrenaline(I) and norepinephrine(NE) or noradrenaline (II) are catecholamine drugs that are widely used in the treatment of allergic emergencies, status asthmatics, bronchial asthma, ventricular bradycardia, cardiac arrest, glaucoma, and...

BACKGROUND Ambient air pollution, is one of the most frequently stated environmental problems. Many epidemiological studies have documented adverse health effects for ambient air pollution. This study aimed to investigate the association between ambient air pollution and respiratory hospital admissions. METHODS In this ecological time series study data about air pollutant concentrations inclu...

Adaptive responses which occur under changing environment enable a species existence during long periods of time. This study aimed at investigating the relationship between body mass index (BMI and characteristic of brain in newborns. This study was undertaken on 1800 healthy live born singletons (822 males and 978 females) routinely delivered at the Gynecology Hospital of Arak Medical Sciences...

Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) are important obligatory blood feeding external parasites of human and animals. There have been a lot of studies on taxonomy of Iranian ixodidae. On the basis of morphological features found basically in adult male. There are problems in tick identification due to their intraspecific variations and morphological changes of the surface body of ticks after blood feedi...

BACKGROUND One of the threatening health issues is prevalence of high-risk behaviors in various groups. Because of rapid social changes, it has been considered as of the most important problems of society by health organizations, administrative laws, and social policymakers. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the role of cognitive failure and alexithymia in predicting high-risk...