BACKGROUND Although so far several studies have determined the hepatitis E virus (HEV) prevalence in some parts of Iran, no data exists regarding the HEV seroprevalence in Bushehr province as the southernmost point in Iran yet. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the seroprevalence of anti-HEV IgG among the blood donors in Bushehr. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 628 blood dono...

Rohollah Kalhor, Mohammad Zakaria Kiaei, Mohammad Azmal, Saeideh moosavi, Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee, Soheyla Gholami. Assistant Professor, Ph.D. of Health Services Management, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran; Health Services Management Department, School of Public Health, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran; PhD in ...

Since fi rst discovered in the early 19th century, the ossuaries from Bushehr, Persian Gulf, have attracted attention as possible archaeological evidence for ancient Zoroastrian burial practice. Th is practice involved exposing cadavers to birds before the surviving remains were gathered for deposition in an ossuary. In this paper, the human remains recovered from two ossuaries at Bushehr are d...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is very important for the treatment of hepatitis C infection. The aim of this study was to determine the distribution of HCV genotypes in Bushehr province (South West of Iran). MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 100 patients who were detected as positive for HCV antibody (by using ELISA method and RIBA test) referred to...

Removal of heavy metals and suspended solids from shrimp culture wastewater in Bushehr Province, using cold ‎plasma technology

The Mesopotamian Spiny-tailed Lizard Saara loricata (Blanford, 1874) (Figure S1) is distributed in Iran and Iraq (Papenfuss et al., 2009). In it found the Bushehr, Fars, Kohgiluyeh B...

Gissou Hatami1, MD, and Niloofar Motamed*2, MD 1. Department of Pediatrics, Ali-e-Asghar Pediatric Center, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran 2. Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran Received: Apr 16, 2011; Accepted: Feb 19, 2012 Despite widespread knowledge about breastfeeding benefits for mothers and neo...

this study was conducted to determine the concentrations of metals (zn, cu, pb, cd and hg) in two commercial fish species of the persian gulf (coast of bushehr province in iran), as well as in the sea waters. the concentrations of metals were determined by using differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (dpasv). two selected species were narrow-barred spanish mackerel and tiger tooth croa...

fifty-four specimens of the kingsoldier bream, argyrops spinifer (forsskal, 1775) from coastal waters of the persian gulf, in bushehr province, were aged by otolith readings to assess the suitability of using otolith length/weight for age estimation in this fish. otolith length and weight increased along with an increase in length and age of the fish. the relationship between fish length (tl) a...