development and progress are ideals that always different countries have pursued. everybody welcomes a developed country with people free from development obstacles. indeed, realization of such a goal requires developmental planning in national and local scales taking into account the population growth rate, economical, social, cultural, and political problems, and generally, imbalances and dua...

background: is the third cause of death. the present study aimed at providing the incidence rates (crude and agestandardized)of different types of cancers in sistan and baluchestan province (southeastern of iran).cancer is the second leading cause of death in developing countries. in iran, cancermethodsregistry center of health heputy for sistan and baluchestan province. common cancers weredefi...

In this study, 333 blood samples of malaria cases positive by microscopic test (70.6% male and 29.4% female, p<0.05) were investigated. The group included 55 cases (16.52%) from Minab (Hormozgan Province), 116 cases (34.82%) from Iranshahr (Sistan-Baluchesta Province) and 162 cases (48.65%) from Kahnouj (Kerman Province). The results showed 244 cases (73.27%) were diagnosed as P. vivax, 87 case...

BACKGROUND Anopheles fluviatilis, one of the major malaria vectors in Iran, is assumed to be a complex of sibling species. The aim of this study was to evaluate Cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene alongside 28S-D3 as a diagnostic tool for identification of An. fluviatilis sibling species in Iran. METHODS DNA sample belonging to 24 An. fluviatilis mosquitoes from different geographical areas in so...

having selected quhistan as one of the important centers of the nazaris’ activity in iran, the local muhtashams of this province focused their efforts on increasingly expanding their spheres of influence in the region. one of the important centers that the nazaris had in mind to expand was nīmrūz province (sistan). by occupying the fortresses in the passageways at the entrance of sistan, they w...

BACKGROUND Epidemics of mosquito-borne viral infections such as dengue, chikungunya, West Nile and Rift Valley fevers in neighbouring countries and risk of introduction of exotic vectors into Iran have placed this country at a significant risk for these mosquito-borne diseases. METHODS After the first dengue case reported in Iran in 2008, active entomological surveillance of Aedes albopictus ...

BACKGROUND This study was aimed to collect wild rodents for endoparasites determination in some parts of Sistan and Baluchistan Province, southeastern Iran nearby Pakistan and Afghanistan countries. METHODS A total of 100 wild rodents were captured alive with cage traps. Various samples were collected from blood and feces, also impression smear prepared from different organs. The samples were...

BACKGROUND The clinical manifestations of celiac disease (CD) have changed in the past decades. There are currently little data describing the initial clinical manifestations of CD in children in Iran. This study describes the initial presentation of children with suspected CD from a geographically defined region in Iran. METHOD Medical records of children seen in 2007 - 2015 from Sistan and ...

A study was done of the bionomics, insecticide susceptibility and irritability status of Anopheles culicifacies in Sistan va Baluchestan province. Sampling was performed to determine the following parameters: species identification, seasonal activity, adult and larval susceptibility tests, irritability tests, anthropophily index and sporozoite rate. An. culicfacies adults were susceptible to al...