introduction: prevention and control of cross infections for the personnel of dental offices and clinics are a critical issue in dental practice. in this study, a standardized questionnaire was developed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of the oral health-care workers in tehran university dental school regarding the blood-transmitted diseases and its validity and reliability were ...

introduction: cardiac dysfunctions have been well known in patients with major thalassemia. some studies have focused on differences in blood pressure and heart rate between these patients and normal population, while this view has not been proven in other studies. given the importance of hemodynamic factors in the health of these individuals, we intend to test the hypothesis as to whether or n...

background existence the children with blood diseases in family could cause lots of stress and anxiety for parents, this stress among parents would negative effects on children's disease process and his response to treatment. materials and methods this is a descriptive-analytical study which carried out on 480 parents with children affected to blood disease referring to shafa hospital of a...

identification of host blood meal in haematophagous arthropods is an important element in their rule in transmission of vector borne diseases. the effects of post ingestion and physical conditions that killed mosquitoes are stored on the success of detecting blood meal dna of anopheles stephensi and culex quinquefasiatus was investigated by polymerase chain reaction (pcr) amplification at the h...

ABO blood type antigens are polymorphic, inherited structures presented on the surface of red blood cells. Although ABO blood group antigens is the most important antigens in transfusion medicine, its main role is not clearly clarified. Correlation between ABO blood group and susceptibility to certain infectious and non-infectious diseases is a controversial issue. Since, lack of blood type ant...