© 2015 The Authors; Tabriz University of Medical Sciences This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Traffic accident injuries in a referral Orthopedic Hospital in Nor...

This study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of bluetongue virus antibodies in sheep in Kurdistan province in west of Iran during 2011-2012. According to results, the seropositive rates of sheep in Kurdistan were 45.9%. The results showed that in area there is widespread presence of the bluetongue virus antibodies in the sheep population as 123 sheep’s out of 268 were affected.

Title: A Decade of Road Traffic Fatalities among the Elderly in North-West Iran Authors: Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani ([email protected]) Bahram Samadirad ([email protected]) Farnaz Moslemi ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 05 Nov 2016 Author’s response to reviews: Thanks for the comments. Following are responses. 1. Please add a statement in the manuscript indicat...

BACKGROUND Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is an important vector-borne disease in Iran. The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of Deltamethrin treated nets in comparison to Indoors Residual Spraying (IRS) for the control of leishmaniasis in a new focal area of Iran. METHODS The study was carried out in 5 villages in the west of Iran during 2012-2013. One village was selected to the ap...

Herein, we are privileged to be given a close and detailed look at the lives and literacies of transnational multilingual youth and adults of diverse origins and communities from across the United States. These are multilingual lives and literacies located on the west coast, or in western mountain, southwest, midwest, or northeast U.S. There are New Yorkers of Dominican, Colombian, Bengali, and...

Mehdi Eshagh 1, Matloob Hussain 1,2, Robert Tenzer 3,4,* and Mohsen Romeshkani 5 1 Department of Engineering Science, University West, Trollhättan 46186, Sweden; [email protected] (M.E.); [email protected] (M.H.) 2 Department of Earth Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan 3 The Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment and Geodesy, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China ...

INTRODUCTION Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphisms have been studied in different ethnic populations. We assessed the ACE gene insertion/deletion alleles frequencies and genotype distributions in a group of individuals from among the general population of west Azarbaijan, Iran, in order to determine the prevalence of deletion/deletion (D/D), deletion/insertion (D/I) and inserti...