Evidence of rare human helminthiasis in paleoparasitological records is scarce. we report here the finding of Physaloptera spp. eggs in a soil sample collected in the pelvic and sacrum bones area of a skeleton excavated from a grave of Shahr-e Sukhteh archeological site dating back to the Bronze Age. The site is located in southeastern Iran and has attracted the attention of numerous archeologi...

Background: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is caused by Leishmania infantum in Mediterranean basin and is an endemic disease in some parts of Iran. Canines are the main reservoirs of VL in most of the endemic areas. Different serological methods have been introduced for diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL). Objective: In this survey a Fucose-Mannose Ligand (FML) ELISA, using native L. ...

Exposure of epidermal keratinocytes to UVB radiation leads the intracellular formation tryptophan photoproducts which subsequently activate aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) induce mal-/adaptive stress responses. Previously, we have found that AHR represses nucleotide excision repair and apoptosis in UVB-irradiated thereby contributes skin photocarcinogenesis mice. The mechanisms by interferes wi...

This study was conducted in 2004 to evaluate the prevalence of hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HBC) and human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus infection in 133 injecting drug users (IDUs) attending a voluntary rehabilitation centre in Shahr-e-Kord, and to identify risk factors for these infections in this group. Serum samples were screened for HBV, HCV and HIV infection. Only 1 participant (0.8%) w...

visceral leishmaniasis (vl) is one of the most important parasitic diseases which is endemic in different parts of iran. serological studies were conducted by direct agglutination test (dat) on 12144 human serum samples, collected from four geographical zones of iran. sero prevalence, geographical distribution, clinical signs and symptoms for human visceral leishmaniasis based on dat for the pe...

analysis of masoud sa'ad salman :union:s shahr ashoob with the perspectives of goldmann and burdieumoharram rezayati kishekhaleh & ali nosrati siyahmazgi abstractshahr ashoob is the context about praising people of city or courtier and lovely describing of owners' social professions. we can categorize shahr ashoob in three groups: urbun shahr ashoob; :union:s shahr ashoob is about des...

background: visceral leishmaniasis (vl) is caused by leishmania infantum in mediterranean basin and is an endemic disease in some parts of iran. canines are the main reservoirs of vl in most of the endemic areas. different serological methods have been introduced for diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis (cvl). objective: in this survey a fucose-mannose ligand (fml) elisa, using native l. ...