C injury to the liver leads to its fibrosis (1). Hepatitis B and C are examples of viral infections that cause chronic hepatitis; even asymptomatic patients show some degree of liver fibrosis (LF) that can range from mild to end-stage cirrhosis (2-4). Determining the degree of LF in chronic viral hepatitis is necessary in determining a patient’s prognosis and indications for therapy. Although l...

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*Corresponding author: Amir Reza Sabah. Department of Neurosurgery, Ghaem Hospital, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 051-38457069 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distrib...

BACKGROUND The objective of this investigation was to detect the presence of Trichinella in some carnivores of Mashhad in northeast of Iran and to identify Trichinella species circulating in this area. METHODS The present study was carried out using muscle tissue collected from 120 stray dogs, 26 wild boars, 25 rodents, two foxes and two hyenas captured in Mashhad City, province of Khorasan R...

1 Biotechnology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2 Department of Pathobiology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3 Department of Infectious Diseases, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, IR Iran 4 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of...