the major purpose of this study was isolation, identification and antimicrobial susceptibility of thermophilic campylobacter spp. from different sources including domestic animals (cow, sheep, horses), poultry, river water and sewage in tonekabon. campylobacter spp. was isolated using prêt-kb method and identified by phenotyping tests. antimicrobial susceptibility of the isolates against differ...

emergency physicians, like other specialists, are faced with different patients and various situations each day. they have to use ancillary diagnostic tools like laboratory tests and imaging studies to be able to manage them. in most cases, numerous tests are available. tests with the least error and the most accuracy are more desirable. the power of a test to separate patients from healthy one...

examining the impacts of data modification is considered as sensitivity analysis. a lot of studies have considered the data modification of inputs and outputs in dea. the issues which has not heretofore been considered in dea sensitivity analysis is modification in the number of inputs and (or) outputs and determining the impacts of this modification in the status of efficiency of dmus. this pa...

background: irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) is a common disease; it seems that psychological factors play a role in development and maintenance of ibs. the main purpose of the current study is to compare patients with ibs and healthy individuals regarding anxiety, sensitivity, and neuroticism. materials and methods: participants included 76 ibs patients (41 female and 35 male) who referred to th...

objective(s): visfatin and vaspin are secreted by adipose tissue and play key roles in glucose homeostasis and subsequently are potential targets for diabetes treatment. resveratrol (rvs) corrects insulin secretion and improves insulin sensitivity. we investigated the rvs effects on serum antioxidants, insulin and glucose levels, also visfatin and vaspin genes expression in adipose tissue of st...

ôbjective: the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq) has been designed as a screening self-report inventory for diagnosing bipolar mood disorders. this study investigated the validity and the optimal cut-off threshold of the persian version of mdq in a group of ïranian depressive patients. methods: ône hundred and twenty patients with probable diagnosis of mood disorders attending psychiatric clini...

conclusions in conclusion, these results suggested a need for a switch to second line therapy regimens for treatment of infected patients in the iranian population. results helicobacter pylori infection was detected in 22 patients (22.92%). identity of the isolates was confirmed by pcr using glmm primers. chronic gastritis, duodenitis, intestinal metaplasia, dysplasia and cancer were detected a...

celiac disease (cd) is now considered a multiple and systemic immune-mediate disorder triggered by the ingestion of wheat gluten and related proteins. following the discovery of a link between gluten and cd, it was demonstrated that gliadin, one of the two principal protein groups comprising gluten, plays a key role in cd. it has since become clear that the different and crucial roles of gliadi...

abstract background the aim of this study was to evaluate sensitivity and specificity of mediastinal sonography, and compared with ct, in detection of anterior mediastinal neoplasms. materials and methods the sonography with convex probes (5.0 and 7.5 mhz) was done prospectively for 34 patients (from 2 to 25 years old) with mediastinal mass. the results were compared with the results of contras...

identification of the best vegetation indices (vis) for use in quantitative analyzes of vegetation is one of the important issues for ecologists. the objective of this study was sensitivity evaluation of vegetation indices to a stand volume for identification of the best vegetation index (vi) in stand volume estimation using a statistical sensitivity method. also, another objective of this stud...