background: malaria is one of the most important parasitic diseases in iran. due to importantce of drug policy, monitoring of chloroquine therapeutic efficacy in uncomplicated falciparum cases was carried out in south and south-east of iran in 2003. materials and methods: this discriptive study was carried out in five centers of sistan-baluchestan, hormozgan and kerman provinces (south and sout...

In the past decades, cardiovascular diseases were the most common causes of death around the world and in Iran (1, 2). Various factors play an important role in the incidence of CVD; such as environmental, personal as well as lifestyle. We studied the geographical distribution of 19142 CVD deaths f r o m 2004 -2010 in South Khorasan. The mean age of the deceased was 59.3±28.9 years. 28.5% death...

In this research, five species of agaricfungiincludingConocybe leucopus, Inocybe terrigena, Psathyrella clivensis, P. tephrophylla,and Tricholoma scalpturatum collected from different regions of Hamedan province are reported for the first time from Iran.More information of the studied specimens is as follows:Conocybe leucopus Kühner ex Kühner & Watling, in Watling, Notes R. Bot. Gdn Edinb. 40(3...

Michael S. Zhdanov,1 Hongzhu Cai2 and Glenn A. Wilson3 1Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, 115 South, 1460 East, Room 383, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA, and TechnoImaging, 4001 South, 700 East, Suite 500, Salt Lake City, UT 84107, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, 115 South, 1460 East, Room 383, Salt Lake C...

BACKGROUND Maternal ethnicity is a recognized risk factor for stillbirth, such that South Asian women have higher rates than their Caucasian counterparts. However, whether maternal ethnicity is a risk factor for intrapartum outcomes is less clear. The aim of this study is to explore associations between maternal country of birth, operative vaginal delivery and emergency cesarean section, and to...

prevalence of coagulopathies (n=6010) including factor viii deficient (haemophilia a) individuals (n=3205) were investigated and analysed in 24 provinces of iran. for all coagulopathies, the prevalence (per 100,000) was the highest with 24.45 in semnan (north east of iran), followed by hamadan (west) with 17.56, the lowest was observed in kordestan (west) as 0.88, followed by kohkiluyeh & boyr-...

Resistance to frontline anti-malarial drugs, including artemisinin, has repeatedly arisen in South-East Asia, but the reasons for this are not understood. Here we test whether evolutionary constraints on Plasmodium falciparum strains from South-East Asia differ from African strains. We find a significantly higher ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous polymorphisms in P. falciparum from South-Ea...