Background: Many families of dialysis patients consider the lack knowledge about disease and type care as main reason for difficulty in providing effective to patients. Objectives: The present study aimed assess effectiveness family-centered education caregivers hemodialysis Methods: This quasi-experimental was conducted on 80 primary two teaching hospitals associated with Zahedan University Me...

Measles is an important childhood disease and an acute viral infection, which is very contagious and recovery from it is the rule. But serious complications of the respiratory and central nervous system may occur. Measles can be prevented with live, attenuated vaccine. In our country (Iran), despite the use of vaccine since 1976, we are still having local epidemics especially in the children ag...

INTRODUCTION There have been many reports and papers on deficient, normal and high levels of copper in patients with thalassemia major. The aim of this study is to evaluate copper status in a series of more than 300 patients with thalassemia major and determine the degree of copper deficiency or excess. METHODS Three hundred and seventy patients with thalassemia major over 5 years of age were...

background: congenital transmission, prenatal mortality and abortion, are major problems in most countries with high prevalence of toxoplasma gondi infection and study of seroepidemiology of this infection among the pregnant women, could provide applicable approaches to preventive measures. in order to determine the seroepidemiology of toxoplasma infection in the pregnant women, this study was ...

Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE; OMIM: 106180) has an important role in the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II and degradation of bradykinin. Genetic polymorphism I/D (rs4646994) in the gene encoding ACE has been well defined. To get more insight into the genetic structure of Iranian populations, the distribution of the ACE I/D polymorphism among Iranians was compared with each ot...

Dear Editor, Tuberculosis (TB) is responsible for a large portion of morbidity and mortality worldwide. According to WHO report, tuberculosis is responsible for at least 2 million deaths per year, so 90% of these occurring in developing countries. 1,2 Recently, it has been shown that multidrug-resistance (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) are the most important factors c...

Escherichia coli O157:H7 has been implicated in diarrhoea, dysentery, haemorrhagic colitis and uraemic haemolytic syndrome but is not routinely cultured in laboratories. We tested 322 samples from children referred with diarrhoea to a clinic in Zahedan, Islamic Republic of Iran. There were 21 sorbitol-negative E. coli isolated; serotyping revealed 4 strains positive for O157, out of which only ...

AIM So far, few studies have been conducted on Q fever in Iran. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of acute Q fever in febrile patients admitted to Boo-Ali Hospital in Zahedan (southeastern Iran). MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, 105 febrile patients suspected ofhaving brucellosis were examined using indirect immunofluorescent assay kit for the detection of Coxiell...

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease that can negatively impact person’s mental health, including depression and anxiety. The of social support on negative, stressful events be analyzed in relation to different personality styles. Objectives: This study aimed investigate the style, events, quality life MS patients. Methods: observational, descriptive utilized regression anal...