background :    salmonellosis is an infectious and a food-borne disease of humans and animals. the initial source of the infection is the intestinal tracts of birds and other animals. apparently healthy animals can become subclinical carriers and persistently shed salmonella in their feces which can act as a reservoir for the pathogen. the aim of this study is to detect the carriers of salmonel...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences. Golestan Hospital. Ahvaz, Khuzestan (Iran) 2 Department of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. Golestan Hospital. Ahvaz, Khuzestan (Iran) 3 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. Iman Hospital. ...

The Gurpi Formation, one of the geologycal units of the Zagros Basin, stretches with in the Folded Zagros in the provinces of Khuzestan, Lorestan, and Fars,in southwest Iran. In all 525 samples were collected from five stratigraphic sectiones of the Gurpi Formation in Dezful embayment Zone for studying biostratigraphy. Totally 47 species from 23 Planktonic foraminifera genera were recognized in...

Aim The aim of this study was to obtain more accurate estimates of the liver cancer incidence rate after correcting for misclassification error in cancer registry across Iranian provinces. Background Nowadays having a thorough knowledge of geographic distribution of disease incidence has become essential for identifying the influential factors on cancer incidence. Methods Data of liver canc...

security has two dimensions of subjective (security feeling) and objective. there are preconditions for security feeling in society that one of the preconditions, the existence of security in the society. these levels are linked together and the interaction between these two levels of objective and subjective that security in the society is achieved.therefore, in this article we have tried to e...

BACKGROUND Rational prescription is a considerable issue which must be paid more attention to assess the behavior of prescribers. The aim of this study was to examine factors affecting family physicians' drug prescribing. METHODS We carried out a retrospective cross-sectional study in Khuzestan province, Iran in 2011. Nine hundred eighty-six prescriptions of 421 family physicians (including 3...

Otolith shape analysis is one way to identify stocks of different fish species in the marine environment. Length, width, area, perimeter, form factor, aspect ratio, roundness, circularity, ellipticity and rectangularity analyses of otoliths were undertaken to assess patterns of spatial and temporal stock structure of a wide-ranging fish, the Arabian yellow fin sea bream Acanthopagrus arabicus. ...