Background: Babesia is blood-tissue parasite, which are transmitted by hard ticks from Ixodidae family. The parasite is the cause of Babesiosis among ruminants. Babesia is as one of main fatal factors among livestock in endemic regions such as Iran. The aim of this study was to investigate Babesia spp infection using microscopic and molecular methods among small ruminants in Mazandaran and Gole...

Bacterial blight (Xanthomonas arboricola pv.juglandis) is one of the main diseases of walnut that reduce the yield in the central, western and northern regions of Iran. This disease was first reported form, Qazvin and Mazandaran, then widely reported from northern, central and western provinces. To identify the cause of the disease in different provinces, infected leaves collected from Alborze,...

The aim of this study was to determine the independent effects of climatic factors: rainfall, temperature and relative humidity, on the occurrence of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) in Thailand after adjustment for cyclical pattern. Data regarding monthly DHF reported cases by province, monthly rainfall, rain-days, average daily maximum temperature, average daily minimum temperature and average ...

To characterize the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation in Han Chinese from several provinces of China, we have sequenced the two hypervariable segments of the control region and the segment spanning nucleotide positions 10171-10659 of the coding region, and we have identified a number of specific coding-region mutations by direct sequencing or restriction-fragment-length-polymorphism tests. Th...

Epidemiology of dengue infection in Lao PDR Dengue disease is widely distributed in the whole country of Lao PDR, which consists of seven provinces. There has been a significant burden of dengue diseases over the past 4 years (Fig 1) (Khampapongpane et al, 2014). In 2010, there is a high burden of disease covering the whole country of Lao PDR with more than 400 cases per 100,000 population in m...

a survey on the hover flies (diptera: syrphidae) fauna of northern iran, between 2010 and 2011, led to the discovery of the species pipiza accola violovitsh, 1985. both the genus and species are newly recorded from iran. all the specimens were collected from gilan and mazandaran provinces, using malaise traps. the diagnostic characters of p. accola and its geographical distribution is presented.

BACKGROUND Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is a major barrier to sustainable human development, but its health burden and geographic distribution among provinces of China remain unclear. This study aimed to estimate IHD burden in provinces of China, and attributable to risk factors from 1990 to 2015. METHODS Data were collected from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study, which evaluated IHD b...

Water footprints and virtual water flows have been promoted as important indicators to characterize human-induced water consumption. However, environmental impacts associated with water consumption are largely neglected in these analyses. Incorporating water scarcity into water consumption allows better understanding of what is causing water scarcity and which regions are suffering from it. In ...