BACKGROUND The aims of this study was to analysis the current situation of malaria and to find the distribution of anopheline mosquitoes, as probable vectors of the disease, in Qom Province, central Iran. METHODS This study was carried out in two parts. First stage was data collection about malaria cases using recorded documents of patients in the Province health center, during 2001-2008. The...

Objectives Antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii and outbreaks caused by this organism have been reported from several areas of the world. The present study aimed at determining the antibiotic susceptibility profiles and the distribution of OXA-type beta-lactamases among Iranian Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Qom of Iran. Materials and Methods For this study, 108 non-duplica...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B is the most common chronic viral infection in humans and the most common cause of death among viral hepatitis. As 70% to 80% of chronic hepatitis cases are caused by HBV in Iran, this virus alone is considered the most important cause of liver diseases and the major cause of mortality arising from viral hepatitis cases in Iran. OBJECTIVES We planned this study to determ...

Metal-organic framework-177 (MOF-177) is one of the most porous materials whose structure is composed of octahedral Zn4O(-COO)6 and triangular 1,3,5-benzenetribenzoate (BTB) units to make a three-dimensional extended network based on the qom topology. This topology violates a long-standing thesis where highly symmetric building units are expected to yield highly symmetric networks. In the case ...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a defective RNA virus that depends on the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) of hepatitis B virus for its replication, developing exclusively in patients with acute or chronic hepatitis B. There are little data regarding the routes of HDV transmission in Iran. The risk factors for HDV infection in Iran are blood transfusion, surgery, family history, Hejama...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have demonstrated controversial results and somewhat increased frequency of multiple sclerosis (MS). We reevaluated the files of MS patients from Qom Province of Iran in order to investigate the epidemiology of the disease. METHODS Demographic and clinical records of 592 MS patients were reviewed, which included; age, sex, date of birth, marital and occupation status...

Sina Ebrahimi, Alireza Ghoreifi, Behnam Shakiba, Arash Azaripour, Hamid Deldadeh, Amir Reza Elahian, Mazaher Hadi, Parvin Emadi, Hamed Rajaee, Mehdi Dehghani, Lily Nosraty. Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran; Urology Department, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran; Students’ Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I...

En 2006, tras el encuentro entre indígenas kanak de Nueva Caledonia y qom del Impe- netrable (Argentina), se conformó grupo danza teatro Pocnolec, que emerge en panorama contemporáneo artistas abocados a recuperar las prácti- cas sus antepasados. Nos proponemos reflexionar sobre rol político la partir análisis algunas miradas condensan qom-kanak, así como proceso histórico colonización evangeli...

As of six months of life, breastfeeding no longer covers an infant's energy or micronutrient needs, so appropriate complementary feeding should be provided. The objective of this study was to assess the time and adequacy for introducing complementary feeding in a Qom/Toba population and analyze the sociocultural concepts of families regarding complementary feeding. Quantitative and qualitative ...

The Study of Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Safety Behaviors in Workers Subway Construction Project Qom, Iran