Background Despite the high prevalence and drug resistance of disease in Sistan and Baluchestan Province of Iran, the species of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) has not been identified. In the present study, cytochrome b (Cyt b) was used in Sistan and Baluchestan to find species of Leishmania in suspected patients of CL using PCR-RFLP and DNA sequencing. Methods This study was conducted from Oct...

Article history: Received: 27 Jan 2013 Accepted: 13 Feb 2013 Available online: 2 Nov 2013 ZJRMS 2014 Dec; 16(12):70-72 Background: Mycobacterium bovis is the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis and belongs to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. M. bovis usually carries only one or a few copies of the insertion sequence IS6110 in its genome. The aim of this study was evaluation of copy nu...

BACKGROUND Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a lymphoid malignancy, resulting from autonomous proliferation of monoclonal abnormal stem cell. The aim of this study was to evaluate the response rate and prognostic factor of adult patients suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, who were treated with chemotherapy in south east of Iran and demographic methods were used for this study. METHODS...

Abstract Objectives The present study aimed to evaluate interleukin-12 (IL-12) and IL-23 in the saliva of patients with oral lichen planus (OLP) squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Materials Methods Thirty cases clinical histopathological OLP (bilateral lesions, papular reticular Wickham lines) (Group A), 30 SCCs (OSCCs) B), no history cancer, other or C) were enrolled at Department Oral Medicine Sc...

INTRODUCTION Smoking tobacco by hookah may seriously affect the health of smokers and those exposed to smoke. This study aimed to compare the effect of educational digital media versus pamphlets on the reduction of hookah use among male high school students in Zahedan, Iran. METHODS A semi-experimental study was conducted on 200 male high school students of Zahedan using multi-stage random sa...

Article history: Received: 4 Aug 2013 Accepted: 1 Sep 2013 Available online: 26 Oct 2013 ZJRMS 2014 Oct; 16(10): 50-54 Background: Plants used for traditional medicine contain a wide range of substances which can be used to treat various infectious diseases. Hence, antibacterial activities of ethanol extracts of 6 plant species were studied against multi-drug resistant clinical isolates. Materi...