BACKGROUND The aims of this study was to analysis the current situation of malaria and to find the distribution of anopheline mosquitoes, as probable vectors of the disease, in Qom Province, central Iran. METHODS This study was carried out in two parts. First stage was data collection about malaria cases using recorded documents of patients in the Province health center, during 2001-2008. The...

Background: This study aims to assess factors associated with cigarette smoking in central parts of Iran. Materials and methods: We used the data of the post intervention phase of Isfahan Healthy Heart Program (IHHP) that was conducted in 2007. Logistic regression was used for calculating crude and adjusted Odds Ratios (OR). The group with the least prevalence of smoking was considered as the R...

OBJECTIVE The long-eared hedgehog (Hemiechinus auritus) is a nocturnal animal living in Central and Southeast Iran. However, there are few studies concerning endoparasites, some of which are zoonotic, of the hedgehogs in the north and northwest of Iran. The aim of the present study is to investigate endoparasites in long-eared hedgehogs, living in Zabol district, Southeast Iran. MATERIALS AND...

regarding islamic conferece organization's aim to establish a common market among islamic countries and expedite the establishment of regional commercial ties, various islamiic countries have been divided into five groups according to their regions. in the meanwhile this research seeks to investigate the establishment of regional commercial ties between iran and central asian countries due...

stylolite networks and their insoluble residues (ir) are among the major concerns and the fundamental controls on the mining and processing of sedimentary decorative stones, largely made from dolomitized limestones. they are mainly used, as natural rock blocks and polished slabs, to construct and decorate floors and walls of buildings and monuments. representative quarries in khur areas, east o...

echinocorys ex. gr. scutata is one of the most important echinids in the upper cretaceous deposits. in this regard, a stratigraphic section of the farokhi formation in the central iran is sampled. this formation is less known and described in the geology of iran. according to the macropaleontological investigations, 1 genus and 1 specious of completely silicified echinocorythidae are determined...

the lower to middle miocene chenar granitoid stock, a part of central iranian volcanic belt, is intruded into eocene volcano-sedimentary complex in northwestern kerman in south central iran. the chenar granitoid stock consists mainly of coarse to medium grain granodiorite and monzogranite with subordinate tonalite and syenogranite. alkali granites as aplitic veins and quartz dioritic dykes freq...

the aim of this study was to evaluate total iodine, triiodothyronine (t3) and thyroxine (t4) status in the blood serum of holstein cows on six farms in central iran. total iodine, t3 and t4 concentrations were measured in 90 blood serum samples (15 per farm). mean concentrations of total iodine (38.80 ± 1.52 µg/l) and t3 (1.57 ± 0.10 nmol/l) were lower but the mean concentration of t4 (45.60 ± ...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Tullgrenius afghanicus Beier, 1959 and Oratemnus afghanicus Beier, 1959 from Afghanistan, Mesatemnus cyprianus (Beier and Turk, 1952) from Cyprus, Paratemnoides insularis (Banks, 1902) from Ecuador and Turkey, Diplotemnus egregius Beier, 1959 from Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Diplotemnus insolitus Chamberlin, 1933 from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, ...

BACKGROUND Injuries and deaths from road traffic crashes are one of the main public health problems throughout the world. This study aimed to identify determinants of fatality traffic accident in Iran for the twenty-span year from 1991 to 2011. METHODS A time series analysis (1991-2011) was used to examine the effects of some of the key explanatory factors (GDP per capita, number of doctors p...