background: salmonella is one of the causes of food-borne illnesses worldwide resulting in a wide range of human diseases. the aim of this research was to study molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of salmonella spp. isolated from resident patients in mazandaran province, northern iran. methods: totally, 51 stool samples were collected from patients in 20 outbreaks recorded in he...

this study was carried out to analyze certain epidemiological variations in iranian patients with colorectal cancer. (crc): from march 1981 up to march 1993, 103 patients were analyzed retrospectively for age, gender, marital state, job, nutritional habits, presenting symptoms and histopathological features. most of the patients with colorectal cancer were male, age range 20-75 (mean 56), 25.4 ...

cerebellar ataxias are a heterogenous group of disorders, clinically and etiologically, that result in considerable health burden. finding out about the various etiologies, and their relative prevalences in the population suffering from cerebellar ataxia helps the clinician to perform a better management, in treatment process. this is a cross sectional study designed to estimate the relative pr...

background : poisoning is a major concern, especially in developing countries. we aimed to focus on poisoning trends based on registry data for the recent 10 years. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on registry database of imam reza hospital in mashhad, iran. all cases of toxic exposure or poisoning during 2004 to 2013 were included (49189 patients). data from two national censu...

background : hydronephrosis (hn) or calycial dilatation is the most common prenatal urologic abnormality. the aim of this study was to identify the possible changes in demographic and clinical manifestations of infantile hn in previously and recently diagnosed patients.   methods : 193 children with infantile hn admitted to ali-asghar children's hospital in two different periods (group 1 1997-2...

conclusions this study showed that gender, education level, occupation, socioeconomic status, medical care, health condition, lifestyle, family conflict, drug abuse history, and religious attitudes are the major social factors of risky driving on the intercity roads of tehran province. background traffic accidents are the major cause of injuries that endanger the lives of many people annually. ...

conclusions in this city, a great proportion of children are susceptible to hepatitis a and it’s complications at an older age. this decrease in seropositivity may be caused by elevated hygien level. according to our results hepatitis a vaccination is recommended at early childhood such as that of other regions where low prevalence of hepatitis a infection is found. patients and methods this cr...

background cases of acute hepatitis c virus (hcv) have been rising across the united states, and southwest ohio is no exception. objectives to describe the rise in cases of hcv in our region, the ohio disease reporting system was reviewed for all cases of positive hcv testing from 2010 through august 2015. methods 29,018 cases were reviewed, with 18,678 (64.4%) cases included in the final analy...

backgrounds and aims : in the tropical regions of iran, scorpion stings are one of the most important medical and health problems. knowing about their epidemiologic aspects might lead to the employment of appropriate preventive methods. therefore, these studies were done in qom province for this purpose. materials and methods : this research is a descriptive cross-sectional study which has been...