Background: Diarrheal diseases are the major causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries second most common cause death children under five years. The main objective study was to determine prevalence intestinal parasites diarrheal patients Bandar Abbas, Southern Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional conducted assess parasitic infections associated factors among with diarrhea hospita...

the objective of this study was to assess the relationship betweenvegetation, landform and physicochemical properties of soil. at the first terrainmap unit were provided using the landsat thematic mapper (tm) satellite images,aerial photograph, topographical and geology map. field sampling was done in therepresentative area using plot sampling. 104 plots 100 m2 were sampled in eachplot landform...

background: traffic noise is one of the major sources of environmental pollution that can cause permanent or temporary loss of hearing in drivers. the purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of hearing loss among professional long-distance drivers in bandar abbas freight terminal. methods: one thousand long distance occupational drivers in bandar abbas freight terminal not certifie...

background: this study evaluated the effect of an educational program on breast self-examination (bse) among women living in bandar abbas, iran. method: this trial studied 240 eligible women attending at eight health centers of bandar abbas who were randomly divided into intervention (n = 120) or control (n=120) group. data regarding belief on breast self examination were collected through the ...

in 1969 and 1976, 237 rodents and carnivores collected from the bandar abbas area south of iran was examined fro trichianella spiralis. 23% of foxes, 25% of stray dogs and all three captured golden jackals were found to be infected.

a general rodent control program was carried out in bandar abbas in the persian gulf (15 sep-22 oct 1984). researches on the variety of the rodents and their parasites were done and zincphosphide and comatetralil baits were used for in-doors and out-doors. results obtained showed that these campaigns were successful.

[1] The Zagros mountains of southern Iran are marked by a zone of high seismicity and accommodate a significant portion of the convergence between Arabia and Eurasia. Due to the lack of dense local seismic or geodetic networks, the inferred kinematics of the collision in Iran is mainly based on catalogs of teleseismically determined earthquake locations. We surveyed all Mw > 4.5 earthquakes in ...