background: botulism is caused by a neurotoxin produced from the anaerobic, spore forming bacterium clostridium. food-borne botulism is one of the dangerous forms of food poisoning in the world. the purpose of this study was to survey some clinical presentations and laboratory findings in patients suspected with botulism toxicity that had received anti-botulism. methods: this descriptive-retros...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to assess the effect of body mass index (BMI) on reducing the risk of refractory seizure due to lipoid tissue factors. MATERIALS & METHODS This matched case-control study, consisted of cases (Patients with refractory epilepsy) and controls (Healthy children) referred to 17 Shahrivar Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Guilan, Iran during 2013-2014. Data were ga...

to determine the effective bio-control agents of water fern, azolla filiculoides, adults and nymphs of water lily aphid, rhopalosiphum nymphaeae (l.), were collected on a. filiculoides in guilan province, iran, during october 2013. this aphid has been collected extensively from almost all water fern samples during 2013 and 2014. although r. nymphaeae was reported from numerous host plants in ir...

three species of the genus xylaria (xylariaceae) are presented based on collections from guilan province, iran. both morphological and molecular characteristics were used in order to identify these species. xylaria longissima sp. nov. is described and illustrated as a new xylaria species and x. cf. striata and x. xylarioides are reported as new records from iranian mycobiota. xylaria longissima...