BACKGROUND The Acinetobacter species, particularly A. baumannii, has emerged as one of the main causes of nosocomial infections in recent years. The high prevalence of drug resistance in A. baumannii limits the therapeutic options for treating infections caused by these bacteria. The objective of this study was to determine the in vitro activity of Tigecycline and Colistin against clinical isol...

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 ...

background: the aim of this study was that the past five years data were collected to analyze the situation of malaria and health facilities in this area for better understanding malaria problem and to find solutions. methods: in this retrospective study data of the last 5 years were obtained from health center of bandar abbas, published papers and reports, weather forecasting organization of t...

INTRODUCTION People in tropical and semi-tropical areas are in danger of scorpion sting, and this can be a serious problem for them. Mortality due to scorpion sting in the tropical and semi-tropical areas of Iran is about 75%, and this makes scorpion sting in these areas a serious medical problem. Because of this problem, our aim was to assess the epidemiological aspects of scorpion sting in Ba...

aSchool of Public Health, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas; bDepartment of Medical Entomology & Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran; cDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Biotechnology Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad; dDepartment of Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad Uni...

1Heath Information Management Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, IR Iran 2Department of Librarianship and Medical Information Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Department of Librarianship and Medical Information Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Cent...

BACKGROUND Zinc deficiency is an important problem in children, especially in developing countries. Zinc supplements have beneficial effects on multiple factors, including treatment of growth retardation and hypogonadism, and they can be used as therapeutic and prophylactic agents against infection in children. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of zinc deficiency in 6-month to 12-year-old...

House dust mites have been shown to be strongly associated with allergic respiratory diseases such as, bronchial asthma, rhinitis and atopic dermatitis in the world. The climatic conditions of Bandar-Abbas, which is located in a coastal area and has a humid subtropical climate, provide a suitable place to proliferate mites. The aim of this study was to determine the contamination rate and analy...

the aim of this study was to identify the species and prevalence of house dust mites (hdms) in kindergartens in bandar abbas, south of iran. in this study 10 kindergartens were selected randomly in five areas of bandar abbas. two dust samples were collected from each sampling place with a vacuum cleaner. mites were isolated and mounted in hoyer's medium and identified using a morphology-based k...