Both cutaneous and visceral forms of leishmaniasis are prevalent in some parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran [1,2]. The Mediterranean type of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is also reported sporadically throughout the country [3] with canines being the main animal reservoir hosts [4]. The cutaneous form of leishmaniasis is seen in 2 forms: anthroponotic and zoonotic. Anthroponotic cutaneous leis...

BACKGROUND Anopheles stephensi is a sub-tropical species and has been considered as one of the most important vector of human malaria throughout the Middle East and South Asian region including the malarious areas of southern Iran. Current reports confirmed An. stephensi resistance to temephos in Oman and India. However, there is no comprehensive research on mechanisms of temephos resistance in...

*Oral and Dental Health Care Research Center, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran **Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran ***Student Research Committee,School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Original Article Middle East...

The major factors of insecurity in the East, away from the security of geopolitical area were because of the formation of political management in the nineteenth century colonial style. The security factor in the vast region of the East that encompasses at least three countries of Iran and Afghanistan and Pakistan is very important and highly effective. It reached its peak colonial Anglo-Russian...

Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases (BRCGL), Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Middle East Liver Diseases (MELD) Center, Tehran, IR Iran Student Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Corresponding author: Mohammad Saeid Rezaee-Zavareh, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Live...

In 2019, excavations of the Nakhchivan Tepe settlement were found a Neolithic layer which characterized ceramic products with impression ornament. Finding allows reviewing connections between cultures Mill Plain, Karabakh and basin Lake Urmia. On basis research, it can be said that Plain Karabakh, are by ornament, contributed to formation Dalma culture. It assumed area culture covered territori...

[1] We use the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model to interpret observations of tropospheric ozone from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) satellite instrument in summer 2005. Observations from TES reveal elevated ozone in the middle troposphere (500–400 hPa) across North Africa and the Middle East. Observed ozone abundances in the middle troposphere are at a maximum in summer and a mi...

Iranians of whom 52 were females and 109 were males. The median age was 35, the youngest being 18 and the oldest 66 years of age. They represented individuals from all the Iranian regions who live in Tehran, the capital. For the factor V Leiden mutation 9 heterozygotes were found (frequency of 5.5%), with an allele frequency of 2.7% and for the G20210A mutation 5 heterozygotes were found (frequ...

the genus jaculusis distributed in palearctic desert and semi-desert areas, extending from central asia to the western sahara in the north africa. in iran three species of three-toed jerboa have been reported: jaculus jaculus from the south west and west of iran, jaculus blanfordi from the northeast, east and central part of iran and jaculus thaleri from the east of iran. in present study, the ...