This paper reports two new species of Bdellidae, Cyta leliae sp. nov. and Cyta kurdistanicus sp. nov., collected from soil and litter under oak trees, Quercus brantii Lindl. (Fagaceae), wild almond, Amygdalus lycioides Spach (Rosaceae) and grass, Kurdistan Province, Iran. A key is provided to adult female Cyta of the world. 

1. Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2. Dept. of Para-Medicine, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran 3. Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran 4. Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehra...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of cesarean sections is increasing globally; however, it can lead to significant increases in maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to determine the rates and trends of cesarean sections in Iraq. METHODS The cesarean section rates of all births and public and private hospital-based births were calculated from the data on births provided by the...

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By Y. MATOTH, Z. SHAMIR AND E. FREUNDLICH C OOLEY’S ANEMIA has beell reported to occur in members of a wide variety of non-Mediterranean races and ethnic groups.’6 Most of these reports describe sporadic cases. In southern Italians and Greeks, on the other hand, this cotidition is w-idely distributed. These peoples, together with a few smaller and probably genetically related ethnic groups of t...

BACKGROUND Medicinal plants still play an important role in the Kurdish community. Sulaymaniyah Province in South Kurdistan (Iraq) has a great diversity of plants, including medicinal plants, yet very few scattered ethnobotanical studies conducted in Kurdistan are available in the scientific literature. Thus the study of Kurdish ethnobotany may be crucial for understanding local medicinal plant...

* Department of pharmaceutcal, College of Pharmacy, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq. Introduction Herbal medicine is a traditional or folk medicine practice based on the use of plants’ seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark, flowers and plant extracts for medicinal purposes. Plants are important sources of medicine for thousands of years and are the most important source of life saving drug...

Of 260 children with acute diarrhea in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, 96 (37%) were infected with rotavirus. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction identified G1, G4, G2, G9, P[8], P[6], and P[4] as the most common genotypes. Eight G/P combinations were found, but P[8]G1 and P[4]G2 accounted for >50% of the strains.

2Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, UPM Serdang-43400, Malaysia 3Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Komar University of Science and Technology, ChaqChaq-Qularasisy, Kurdistan Region, Northern Iraq *Corresponding author: Heshu Sulaiman Rahman, Department of Veterinary Clinical Scienc...