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C injury to the liver leads to its fibrosis (1). Hepatitis B and C are examples of viral infections that cause chronic hepatitis; even asymptomatic patients show some degree of liver fibrosis (LF) that can range from mild to end-stage cirrhosis (2-4). Determining the degree of LF in chronic viral hepatitis is necessary in determining a patient’s prognosis and indications for therapy. Although l...

Bacillus cereus strain 03BB87, a blood culture isolate, originated in a 56-year-old male muller operator with a fatal case of pneumonia in 2003. Here we present the finished genome sequence of that pathogen, including a 5.46-Mb chromosome and two plasmids (209 and 52 Kb, respectively).

Investigation of the Impact Ergonomic Training Programs on Prevalence Musculoskeletal Disorders Adminis-trative and Support Staff at Imam Reza Hospital in Mashhad, Iran

1 Biotechnology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2 Department of Pathobiology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3 Department of Infectious Diseases, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, IR Iran 4 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of...

*Corresponding author: Amir Reza Sabah. Department of Neurosurgery, Ghaem Hospital, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 051-38457069 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distrib...

BACKGROUND The objective of this investigation was to detect the presence of Trichinella in some carnivores of Mashhad in northeast of Iran and to identify Trichinella species circulating in this area. METHODS The present study was carried out using muscle tissue collected from 120 stray dogs, 26 wild boars, 25 rodents, two foxes and two hyenas captured in Mashhad City, province of Khorasan R...

A Lamivudine/ Entacavir Resistance Mutations Among Treatment Naïve Chronic HBV Infected Patients Mashhad, Iran

The Role of Organizational Coaching in Public Service Motivation with the Mediating Positive Behavior (Case Study: Staff Mashhad University Medical Sciences)

The annual reports of the national leprosy control programme in Nigeria were reviewed to study the trends of the indices of leprosy control from 1992 to 2003 and determine the influence of operational and policy factors. By 2003, both national prevalence and case detection rates had reached below 0.5 per 10,000. Sub-nationally, all except three contiguous States in the Southeast, had prevalence...