INTRODUCTION ABO blood group system is the most important blood group in transfusion and has been widely used in population studies. Several molecular techniques for ABO allele's detection are widely used for distinguishing various alleles of glycosyl transferase locus on chromosome 9. METHODS 744 randomly selected samples from Azari donors of East Azerbaijan province (Iran) were examined usi...

1Faculty of Engineering, Applied Artificial Intelligence Research Centre Near East University, Lefkoşa, North Cyprus,Mersın 10, Turkey 2Department of Computer-Aided Control System, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Azadlik Avenue 20, Baku, Azerbaijan 3Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bogazici University, Bebek, 80815 Istanbul, Turkey 4University of Toronto, 170 College Street (R...

* World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark; † International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India; ‡ Department of Global Health, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, § PharmAccess Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ¶ Ministry of Justice, Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan; # University of Malaya, Kuala Lum...

INTRODUCTION Implementation of rural family physician program in Iran in 2005 has been evaluated and shown that this program has been led to some improvements in health indicators. In this study, some reproductive health (RH) indicators were compared before and after implementation of this program in rural areas of East Azerbaijan, Iran. METHODS In this ecologic- time trend study, the data of...

BACKGROUND A cancer registry program has been established in East Azerbaijan and this has emphasized the importance of cancers of gastrointestinal tract in this region. The aim of the present pathology-based cancer registry report is to renew epidemiologic aspects of gastrointestinal tract cancers and estimate recent trends. MATERIALS AND METHODS A survey team reviewed and collected all recor...

BACKGROUND This study was performed in response to the rapid propagation of HIV/AIDS across Iran and its status in this region. Accordingly, an evidence-based program is required to combat this disease. OBJECTIVES The present study estimated the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in East Azerbaijan (population: 3,724,000). MATERIALS AND METHODS We created a database of all positive cases from 1987 to 2...

BACKGROUND Evaluating demographic characteristics, distribution and types of orthopedic injuries following major earthquakes may be helpful in future planning for disasters. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to analyze data from trauma patients with extremity injury resulting from the earthquakes of East Azerbaijan, Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS Medical records of 686 patients admitted to Shohada ho...

background:  this  study  aimed  to  prospectively  analyze  the  effect  of  a  major  earthquake on the prevalence of psychological disorders such as acute stress disorder (asd), anxiety, depression,  mixed  anxiety  depression  disorder  (madd),  phobia,  aggressive  behavior, insomnia, psychosomatic disorders and also sociodemographic aspects among residents of rural community sample in eas...

nosema is a genus of microsporidia, which have significant negative impacts on honeybees. the aim of this study is the epidemiological evaluation and molecular characterization of nosema spices in various counties of east-azerbaijan province (northwest of iran). 387 samples were collected from colonies maintained in various counties of east-azerbaijan province. samples after preparation were...

To investigate the genetic variation among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in the East Azerbaijan Province of Iran and to evaluate the level of and risk factors for recent transmission of tuberculosis (TB), we performed IS6110-based restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of strains, isolated from 105 patients during the period of September 2002 to March 2003 in TB centers and uni...