AIM To study the trend of hepatocellular carcinoma incidence after correcting the misclassification in registering cancer incidence across Iranian provinces in cancer registry data. METHODS Incidence data of hepatocellular carcinoma were extracted from Iranian annual of national cancer registration reports 2004 to 2008. A Bayesian method was implemented to estimate the rate of misclassificati...

Parasitic gastrointestinal infections are one of the most important health problems in the developing countries, which lead to the onset of intestinal disease particularly diarrhoea. Due to the particular geographic situation in the Mazandaran province, individuals are infected with various intestinal parasites. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence rate of enteropathogenic para...

AIM To correct the misclassification in registered gastric cancer incidence across Iranian provinces in cancer registry data. METHODS Gastric cancer data is extracted from Iranian annual of national cancer registration report 2008. A Bayesian method with beta prior is implemented to estimate the rate of misclassification in registering patient's permanent residence in neighboring province. Ea...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Tuberculosis (TB) poses a serious threat to public health throughout the world but disproportionately afflicts low-income nations. The aim of this study is to identify the high-risk areas in Mazandaran province (northern Iran) in helping the heath programmer for the best intervention. MATERIALS & METHODS This is an ecological study conducted from 1999 through 2008. The ...

I received Iranian Journal of Parasitology (Volume 6 (4), Oct-Dec 2011). I have seen an article in pages 51-58 titled "Molecular and Seroepidemiological Survey of Visceral Leishmaniasis among Humans and Domestic Dogs in Mazandaran Province, North of Iran ". I think this title needs to be revised, because this study was done in two limited districts of the central zone of Mazandaran (Semeskandeh...

Fusarium moniliforme (F. moniliforme) is one of the most frequent fungal pathogens found in rice. Samples of rice grown in three different zones of Mazandaran Province, Iran were collected and analyzed for the presence of fumonisin B (FB ). Mycological analysis revealed the presence of F. moniliforme-type isolates 1 1 in 65.1% of the rice samples. Average levels of FB per zones 1, 2 and 3 were ...

Statistical Analysis of Time Series Snow-Covered Area Obtained from Satellite Images in Mazandaran Province

BACKGROUND New cases of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) have been reported recently in some parts of Mazandaran Province, north of Iran where the first human case of VL was reported in 1949. This study aimed to determine the present status of Leishmaniainfantum infection among humans and domestic dogs using serological and molecular methods in central parts of Mazandaran Province. METHODS In this...

BACKGROUND Ecological studies on mosquitoes are very important in vector control programs. There are a few studies about the ecology of mosquitoes in northern Iran. This study was carried out to detect fauna and larval habitat characteristics of mosquitoes. METHODS This study aimed to determine fauna and the ecology of mosquitoes in Neka County, Mazandaran Province, northern Iran from April t...