Background: Rotavirus is a major cause of acute diarrhea in children worldwide. It is an important cause of death among young children in developing countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of rotavirus infection in children less than five years old hospitalized for gastroenteritis in Jahrom. Methods: One hundred and two stool samples were collected from children less tha...

In recent years, a lot of efforts have been made toward developing new methods for treating drug addicts. The present study aims to compare the effectiveness of the drug addiction treatment methods used for the addicts at the drug addiction treatment center of Jahrom, Iran in 2014. The present study is a retrospective cohort study whose population consisted of all the individuals who were under...

OBJECTIVE The Cardiff Acne Disability Index (CADI) assesses the impact of acne on a patients life. The aim of the present study was to translate the CADI into Persian language and to validate the Persian version. METHODS Using standard forward-backward translation, 2 bilinguals translated the CADI into Persian language. We back translated it into English and the final version was provided. We...

in this research the activity of 75 producers, 55 wholesalers and 55 retailers, citrus market of jahrom county was investigated. the results indicated that margin of wholesale, retail and total margin of citrus in this county was 1461.1, 1480.3, and 2941.4 rs respectively. share of producer from marginal price was estimated to be 57.9 percent and share of wholesaler was more than retailer. in t...

almond is among some of the most important nut crops requiring improvement in many aspects of its production. to do that, the first step is an evaluation of the genetic diversity of the existing germplasm. towards this end, 56 vigorous almond seedlings were evaluated with recording eight morphological characteristics (trunk diameter, height of main trunk, canopy density, canopy angle, branch nu...

a survey was conducted to identify leafminer flies (diptera: agromyzidae) in shiraz from april 2004 to november 2005. among the collected specimens, five species are new records for iran. the identifications were confirmed by dr. civelek (turkey) and dr. henshaw (uk). all specimens were deposited in the insect collection of jahrom azad university.

during 2009, in the course of a faunistic survey of terrestrial parasitengona mites in jahrom region, ronaldothrombium bellator (southcott, 1986) (acari, trombidiidae) was collected and identified for the first time from iran. it was collected as ectoparasite of an unidentified araneae, which is a new host for r. bellator.