background and aims: helicobacter pylori is the primary cause of various diseases. this study was conducted to determine the existence of h. pylori in springs and surface water in chaharmahal and bakhtiari province. methods: in this study, 29 water samples were collected from three different locations of zayanderud river, 24 springs, and two subterranean from june 2014 to august 2014 in chaharm...

Background and aims: Helicobacter pylori is the primary cause of various diseases. This study was conducted to determine the existence of H. pylori in springs and surface water in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. Methods: In this study, 29 water samples were collected from three different locations of Zayanderud River, 24 springs, and...

In this study, all the hairs and their follicles characteristics of Iranian Bakhtiari sheep were investigated. A total of 48 healthy Bakhtiari sheep (aged 5-8 months) were selected and categorized on the basis of sex (24 females and 24 males). Samples were taken as small pieces from different regions of the skin, fixed and stained with haematoxylin and eosin. The following indices in each piece...

Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia, P.O Box 801379 Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Venda for Science and Technology. PMB X5050 Thohoyandou 0950, Limpopo Province, South Africa. REGER, UMR-5097 CNRS, Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux 2, Rue ...

background & aim: kelussia odoratissima mozaff. (apiaceae) is one of the medicinal plants and endemic in zagros mountains, iran, which unfortunately due to illegal harvest is endangered. in order to break dormancy and to evaluation of effect of different treatments on traits a factorial experiment base on completely randomized design was created on the seed zone sar-aghaseyed functions in c...

background: previous studies have revealed significant differences between populations for genotypic frequencies of glutathione s-transferase t1 ( gstt1 ) and m1 ( gstm1 ) polymorphisms. in order to find the frequency of the null genotypes of gstm1 and gstt1 in iranian populations, the present study was carried out. methods: the total study subjects consisted of 1340 unrelated healthy muslims/i...

background and aims: finding prevalence of chicken anemia virus (cav) infection in native chickens is necessary to avoid transmission of infection to commercial flocks. in this paper we attempt to describe molecular detection of chicken anemia virus in native larry-breed chickens in chaharmahal-va-bakhtiyari province in iran for the first time. materials and methods: blood samples were collecte...

Although fertility capability classification (FCC) has high performance in land evaluation and soil maps interpretation, so far it has been less attended in land evaluation studies. Therefore, qualitative (FCC method) and quantitative (Riquer index) land fertility capability evaluation for Wheat and Rice cultivation and comparison of Soil Taxonomy and WRB classification with FCC were chosen as ...

In a survey of 430 Lori-Bakhtiari sheep at a slaughterhouse in Iran, gallstones were found in the gallbladder of 7 sheep (1.6%). Biliary calculi were more frequent in adult and female sheep (P < 0.05). Chemical analysis of the gallstones revealed 6 sheep with pigment (bilirubin) stones and 1 sheep with cholesterol stones. Chemical composition of bile in these sheep was evaluated. Bacteriologic ...