BACKGROUND Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) remains a serious public health concern in Kerman Province, eastern Iran. This study was aimed to conduct a comprehensive review and highlights various aspects of CL in the province of Kerman. METHODS This article mainly focuses on the studies published in the past 26 years on CL in the province. Current data for the present status were obtained through...

Background & Aims: Licorice (Glycyrrhia glabra L.) is an important herbal medicine that its root extract has long been used for the treatment of various diseases. The essential component of its root is glycyrrhizin. This study was performed to determine the percentage of the extract and glycyrrhizin content of the roots of Glycyrrhiz glabra grown in different areas of Kerman province and some s...

BACKGROUND Northern Iran (Ardabil) is characterized by a high gastric cancer (GC) rate, whereas Southern Iran (Kerman and Yazd) has a low GC rate. The aim of this study is to verify the potential for pepsinogen I and II to detect atrophic gastritis (AG) in both high and low risk populations for GC. METHODS Sera of blood donors and patients with GC from Ardebil, Kerman and Yazd were used to me...

kuhbanan fault is in southeast margin of micro continent of iran between tabas and yazd blocks. it directed from northwest of kerman to northwest of bahabad east of bafgh (yazd). its length is about 300 km and its overall direction in iran is in southeast – northwest. this fault has caused many historical deadly earthquake and is recently more active at its southeast part near zarand city. the ...

introduction pistachio (pistacia vera l.) is one of the most important export crops of iran which has an important role in non-petroleum exports and has over $800 million benefit per year. however, production of this crop faces many problems in main production centers, especially in energy efficiency and productivity. the pistachio is a native crop of iran and syria. the major producers of pist...

Cold is an environmental factor limiting the growth and yield of agricultural crops. To find cold-tolerant pistachio rootstocks, a factorial experiment was conducted at Pistachio Research Center (PRC), Rafsanjan, Iran during 2017-2018. The factors included six rootstocks (Badami Zarand, Ghazvini, Sarakhs, Integerrima × Badami Zarand, Integerrima × Ghazvini and Integerrima × Sarakhs) and four th...

in this study, the genetic diversity among paecilomyces variotti isolaes was investigated. sampling was performed from pistachio garden in seven geographical region of kerman province during 2011-2012. seventy isolates were identified as p. variotii species using morphological criteria. the genetic diversity among 20 selected isolates was assayed by variation at ssr marker bands using 12 pair p...

BACKGROUND The fall in the incidence of esophageal squamous cell cancer and noncardia gastric cancers in western countries parallels a concomitant rise in the incidence of gastric cardia cancer and distal adenocarcinoma of the esophagus. We aimed to investigate the incidence trend of different gastric and esophageal cancers in Kerman, southeast Iran. METHODS The information of all newly diagn...

in order to evaluate the inter-specific hybrid p. atlantica × p. vera cv. ‘badami- riz- zarand’ to drought stress, a factorial experiement was conducted as based on a completely randomized design of three irrigation intervals 3, 6 and 9 days on qazvini, badami-riz-zarand and the hybrid of p. atlantica × p. vera cv. badami- riz-zarand rootstocks of pistachio. results indicated that such physiolo...