background and aims: scabies is a common worldwide parasitic contagious disease caused by sarcoptes scabiei of the order of astigmata of the family of sarcoptidae. therefore, this review is to determine the exact status of scabies in iran in order to manage it better. methods: on the whole, out of the 120 articles and books, 56 ones were covered based on items such as study purpose, date of pub...

background: henoch-schönlein purpura (hsp) is an lga mediated small vessel systemic vasculitis disease in children. the etiology and pathogenesis of hsp disease remain unknown. however, environmental and genetic risk factors could play important roles in susceptibility to hsp disease. in this study we investigated the association of 5՛-untranslated region polymorphism (-634g/c) of vegf gene wit...

background: hyperlipidemia is a well-documented risk factor for coronary heart disease and a great wealth of clinical trials have shown that early detection of hyperlipidemia and prescribing drugs that lower elevated lipid levels reduce serious cardiovascular events, such as myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke. fordyce granules (fgs) are sebaceous glands without hair follicles, most...

small scale industries are suffering most from the marketing problems due to their owners’ attitudes, units’ capacity, and quality of products along with the scale of production. the researchers analyzed the problems of selected twenty small scale industrial units of various industrial groups of industrial estates of sylhet division of bangladesh to get insights of the problem. primary and seco...

the estimate of entropy (sample entropy), has been introduced by vasicek (1976), for the first time. in this paper, we provide an estimate of entropy of order statistics, that is the extention of the entropy estimate. then we present an application of the entropy estimate of order statistics as a test statistic for symmetry of distribution versus skewness. the proposed test has been compared wi...

Introduction: Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a Zoonosis disease. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of educational intervention on practice improvement of employees in healthcare centers and meat distribution centers of Ilam province in relation to Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever. Materials and methods: Participants in present quasi-experimental study were 200 emplo...

an outbreak of malignant catarrhal fever (mcf), a fatal viral disease in indigenous tanzanian shorthorn zebu in ngorongoro district of tanzania during the period of june 2004 has been described. the disease was diagnosed by clinical, post mortem findings and the virus was identified using molecular characterization study. the history and clinical features included pyrexia, cornel opacity, nasal...