BACKGROUND Smoking is regarded as one of the main risk factors and additive to the global burden of diseases in the World. OBJECTIVES This individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis aimed to estimate the smoking prevalence in Mazandaran province of Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was an IPD meta-analysis. The study data were part of the STEPS Study in Mazandaran province (northern I...

background: aquatic insects are very abundant and divers groups of insects that are associated with an aquatic or semiaquatic environment in one or more of their life stages. these insects have been, in some cases, well studied because they are vectors of several diseases. this is the first comprehensive faunistic study of aquatic insects from babol county. the results may provide basic data fo...

BACKGROUND It was shown that plants derived agents are being used for treatment of cancer. In this study, crude ethanolic extract of Consolida orientalis L., Ferula assa-foetida L., Coronilla varia L., Orobanche orientalis G. Beck were screened in vitro for cytotoxic activity on Hela (Human cervical carcinoma) cell line. OBJECTIVES We performed the present study to evaluate the in vitro cytot...

Ophionyssus natricis is a purely blood sucking parasite of snakes and of worldwide distribution. Infected snakes often exhibit lethargy, pruritus, crusting dermatitis, and behavioral changes. Ophionyssus natricis can also attack humans, causing popular vesiculo-bullous eruption of the skin. A 29 years old man working in zoo, Sari, Mazandaran, Iran, presented itchy papullar eruption of the skin....

Hossein Jafari 1,2,*, Hassan Kamil Jassim 3, Maysaa Al Qurashi 4 and Dumitru Baleanu 5,6 1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar 47416, Iran 2 Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria 0003, South Africa 3 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education for Pure Sciences, University of Thi-Qar, Nas...

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The increasing incidence of tuberculosis (TB) is a major concern to public health policy-makers. To assess knowledge about TB and the DOTS strategy among medical students in a high incidence area of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a questionnaire designed around the national TB programme guidelines was given to 80 interns in Golestan and Mazandaran medical schools in December 2007. The overall me...