BACKGROUND Asymptomatic malaria infection provides a reservoir of parasites, causing the persistence of malaria transmission. It accounts an important challenge for successful management of the control, elimination, and eradication programmes in any malaria-endemic region. This investigation was designed to assess the presence and the prevalence of asymptomatic carriers in Iranshahr district of...

cranial trephination is a technique which was used by ancient people to trephine skulls with some instruments. there are different types of trephination, the most common and primitive of which were trianglular and quadrangular in shape. a group burial was found in an archeological excavation of burnt city in sistan province in 1977. out of the 13 skeletons, one skeleton belonged to a 13th years...

Bu çalışmada İngiliz asker ve diplomat Charles Edward Yate’in Horasan Esterabad’da 1893 -1897 tarihleri arasında yaptığı gezi notlarından oluşturmuş olduğu Sistan isimli eserine istinat edilerek İran Horasanı Esterâbâd (günümüzde Gülistan) bölgesin etnik unsurları bunların yaşadıkları bölgeler incelenmiştir. Askeri diplomatik görevlerle uzun süre Afganistan’da bulunmuş olan Yate, bu iki ülkenin...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to design pictorial key and taxonomic literature of Culex pipiens complex in Iran. METHODS Larvae were collected using standard dipping methods in 13 randomly selected areas of Bushehr, Hamedan, Kerman, Khorasan-e-Razavi, Khuzistan, Mazandaran, Tehran, Sistan and Baluchistan and Yazd Provinces from April 2009 to October 2010. The data were analyzed using S...

background & aim: medicinal plants, since time immemorial, have been used in virtually all cultures as a source of medicine and ethnobotany has prevent to be a valuable method to find new herbal medicine and plant derived drugs. material & methods: this study determined medicinally important plants that are most frequently by the local inhabitants of sistan to treat human diseases. in ...

abstract in this study the comparative advantage of wheat in sistan was investigated by using drc index and policy analysis matrix (pam) during 2006-2007. data were collected from zabol agri-jahad organization and annual foreign trade database. the npc index showed that there was an indirect tax on producers in all sectors. epc index represented that there were nonsupport of input and output ma...

the aim of the present paper is to study the status of the short vowels /i/ and /u/ in five selected iranian balochi dialects. these dialects are spoken in sistan (si), saravan (sa), khash (kh), iranshahr (ir), and chabahar (ch) regions located in province sistan va baluchestan in the southeast of iran. this study investigates whether these two vowels have the same qualities as the short /i/ an...

having selected quhistan as one of the important centers of the nazaris’ activity in iran, the local muhtashams of this province focused their efforts on increasingly expanding their spheres of influence in the region. one of the important centers that the nazaris had in mind to expand was nīmrūz province (sistan). by occupying the fortresses in the passageways at the entrance of sistan, they w...

objective: eucalyptus (fam. myrtaceae) is a medicinal plant and various eucalyptus species possess potent pharmacological actions against diabetes, hepatotoxicity, and inflammation. this study aims to investigate essential oil compositionfrom leaves and flowers of e. microthecaand e. viminalisleavesgrowing in the southeast of iran. materials and methods: the aerial parts of these plants were co...