Objective: To determine the percentage of ABO and Rhesus blood groups among population of the city of Mashhad. Design: The blood groups of studied population was performed using routine method of blood grouping. Subjects: Eight hundred sixty-seven subjects aged 8 Year and above including 436 male and 431 female. The subjects were randomly selected from 20 different areas of the city of Mashhad....

BACKGROUND The objective of this investigation was to detect the presence of Trichinella in some carnivores of Mashhad in northeast of Iran and to identify Trichinella species circulating in this area. METHODS The present study was carried out using muscle tissue collected from 120 stray dogs, 26 wild boars, 25 rodents, two foxes and two hyenas captured in Mashhad City, province of Khorasan R...

Lioua Kolsi 1,2, Omid Mahian 3,*, Hakan F. Öztop 4,5, Walid Aich 1,6, Mohamed Naceur Borjini 2, Nidal Abu-Hamdeh 5 and Habib Ben Aissia 2 1 College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Haïl University, Haïl City 2240, Saudi Arabia; [email protected] or [email protected] (L.K.); [email protected] (W.A.) 2 Unité de Recherche de Métrologie et des Systèmes Energétique, Ecole Nati...

in today's cities, especially metropolises, the issue of identity and its transformation has become one of the most important issues among urban authorities and designers. mean while, mashhad as the second religious metropolises in the world has an identity- causing and effective role among islamic cities of iran in recent decades, the amount of urban construction, especially in central pa...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis C is a disease with significant global impact. The distribution of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes in Mashhad (the Northeast and the biggest city after the capital of Iran) is unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of HCV genotypes among HCV seropositive patients, and to study the relationship between types, virologic and demographic features o...

BACKGROUND Mashhad, in the northeast of Iran has been suggested as an endemic area for human T cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) infection since 1996. OBJECTIVES We performed a community-based seroepidemiology study to examine the prevalence and risk factors for HTLV-I infection in the city of Mashhad. STUDY DESIGN Between May and September 2009, overall 1678 subjects from all the 12 ...

BACKGROUND This study explores the level of Occupational Stress and main sources of occupational and personal stress among Rural Health Workers (RHW) of the health network of Mashhad district. METHODS The first part of the Occupational Stress Inventory (OSI) (called the Occupational Roles Questionnaire (ORQ)) was used to measure the Rural Health Workers occupational stress (N=172). A number o...

1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 2Sinus and Surgical Endoscopic Research Center, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 3Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 4Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University...

Free living amoebae (FLA) are frequently distributed in environment, such as air, water, dust and soil (1). Some strains of Acanthamoeba spp. are non-pathogen, while others are pathogenic in immunocompromised patients or even healthy persons (2-4). Acanthamoeba encephalitis is rare and less likely to be diagnosed with successful medical intervention. These amebas can carry and transmit importan...

1 Faculty of Traditional Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 2 Department of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 3 Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 4 Department of Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences...