background: toxoplasma gondii is one of the most prevalent parasites of human and warm- blooded animals. toxoplasmosis is important especially in two groups: pregnant women and immunocompromised patients. if women acquire the primary infection during the pregnancy, it would be life threatening or re-mains severe disorders for the fetus. this study was performed to evaluate the seroprevalence of...

Authors: Jogender Mehla, Jamshid Faraji, Takashi Saito, Takaomi C Saido, Majid H. Mohajerani and Robert J. McDonald Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, Gorgan, Islamic Republic of Iran. Laboratory for Proteolytic Neuroscience, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, W...

1. Professor of Pediatric Neurology, Shahid Beheshti Medical University 2. Associate Professor of Pediatric neurology, Shahid Beheshti Medical University 3. Assistant Professor of pediatric Neurology, Gorgan University of Medical Sciences 4. Assistant Professor of Pediatric Neurology, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences 5.Assistant Professor of pediatric Neurology,Shahid Beheshti Medical Uni...

BACKGROUND Hemangiomas, usually, present at the first few months of life and are the most common benign tumor in children. There are various therapeutic methods for hemangioma. Capillary hemangioma is a type of hemangiomas. The steps of treatment of a child with capillary hemangioma in Taleghani Hospital of Gorgan, Iran, are reported. CASE REPORT In this report, it is described an 18-month-ol...

in a two-year study on natural enemies of tomato fruit worm, helicoverpa armigera (hubner) (lep.: noctuidae) in golestan province, two parasitoid wasps belonging to the family ichneumonidae were identified, which are newly recorded from iran: 1. hyposoter didymator (thunberg), which was collected in 8 july 2003, in seyed-miran, 9 km west of gorgan, and 2. ctenichneumon panzeri (wesmael), which ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the epidemiology of pubertal development of girls in a developing community. METHODS The cross-sectional study was undertaken in July 2005, on 788 healthy 7-16 years old girls in Gorgan, the most populous city of Golestan province in northern Iran. Physical examination, was performed and height, weight and body mass index were noted. Pubertal stages were assessed by clin...

UNLABELLED Background : Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common congenital anomaly in newborns. This study was performed to determine the live birth incidence of CHD by ethnicity and sex in Gorgan, Northern Iran. METHODS In this longitudinal, hospital-based study, 18162 live births in Dezyani Hospital in Gorgan, North of Iran, were screened for CHD, from 2007 through 2009. Clinical ...

BACKGROUND Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a common cause of nosocomial and community-acquired infections around the world. Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) typing methods are often used to study MRSA molecular epidemiology. OBJECTIVES The current study was designed to explore the distribution profiles of different SCCmec types among methicillin-resistant ...

Laimaphalenchus hyrcanus n. sp., from bark samples of cypress (Cupressus sp.) and jujube (Ziziphus jujube Miller) from Gorgan, Golestan province in northern Iran, is described and illustrated based on morphological and molecular characters. The new species is characterized by females with 670-870 μm body length, slender stylet of 11-12 µm, six-lobed cephalic region not divided by ribs, three in...

Acute myocardial infarction is one of the important reasons of death and unhealthiness in the world. The present study was undertaken to investigate the changes in serum lipids and lipoproteins in patients with acute myocardial infarction. This study was performed in the Biochemistry and Metabolic Disorder Research Center of Gorgan, Golestan province (South East of Caspian Sea), Iran in 2011.Th...