during one year period from 2010 to 2011 the samples from pneumonic animals were taken and transported to the laboratory. pasteurella multocida were identified in 16.6% of animal by biochemical test. the high incidence of p. multocida was obtained in the south of fars province, where the area was warm region. the mean death time between the isolates was 12-18 and 19-24 hours. only the capsular ...

BACKGROUND Cancer has become a global health problem. China still suffers continuous increasing cancer mortality. To study the trend of cancer mortality in rural China, this paper established an Age-Period-Cohort model to discuss the age effect, period effect and cohort effect on cancer mortality in rural China. METHODS The data were collected from the "China Health Statistical Yearbook" from...

We investigated chloroquine sensitivity to Plasmodium falciparum in travelers returning to France and Canada from Haiti during a 23-year period. Two of 19 isolates obtained after the 2010 earthquake showed mixed pfcrt 76K+T genotype and high 50% inhibitory concentration. Physicians treating malaria acquired in Haiti should be aware of possible chloroquine resistance.

BACKGROUND Social systems are dealing with the challenge of achieving fairness in the distribution of financial burden and protecting the risk of financial loss. The purpose of this paper is to present a trend analysis for the indicators related to fairness in healthcare's financial burden in rural and urban population of Iran during the eight years period of 2003 to 2010. METHODS We used the...

The transportation sector is a crucial of the sustainability every national economy. Previous studies highlighted core significance transport enterprises in European countries over past 60 years. long-term determined by their ability to gain earnings. Thus, earnings are synonym corporate life. purpose this study was capture lever year, trend, and slope development before COVID-19 pandemic. Time...

background: determining the mortality rate of diseases in a community is one of the main components in health care planning of that community. this study used a join point regression model to determine the trend of mortality due to diabetes mellitus (dm) in iran. materials and methods: the data on the rate of mortality due to dm were obtained from the reports of the iranian ministry of health. ...

CONTEXT Between 1980 and 1999, the prevalence of adult obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥30) increased in the United States and the distribution of BMI changed. More recent data suggested a slowing or leveling off of these trends. OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of adult obesity from the 2009-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and compare adult obesity and the d...

We wish to comment on the Dinger and Shapiro commentary article published in the January 2012 issue of this Journal.1 Following the publication of papers regarding the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) with combined oral contraceptives (COCs) we would like to share some information regarding comparison between drospirenonecontaining COCs and other COCs in Croatia. This short study was conduc...

Much research has suggested that facial identification has some characteristics of automaticity, in that it is rapid, nonconscious, and mandatory. However, little research has tested whether it can occur even if attention is already devoted to the demanding central processes of another task. In the present study, we addressed this type of automaticity using the psychological refractory period p...