Background: Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) as a carcinogenic and toxic compound has considerable significance from public health viewpoint. The aim of this study was to determine the level of AFM1 in pasteurized and UHT milk in West-Azerbaijan province of Iran. Methods: A total of 360 commercial milk samples including 220 pasteurized milk and 140 ultra-high-temperature (UHT) milk were purchased randoml...

A total number of 450 blood samples were collected from 45 different randomly selected cattle herds. Light microscopic examination of blood smears revealed Babesia spp. infection in 4.2%, while 8.9% of blood samples were positive using PCR. Upon multiplex-PCR (mPCR), B. bigemina and B. bovis infections were detected in 37/40 (92.5%) and 3/40 (7.5%) samples, respective...

In this paper, we report the results of four ensemble approaches with the M5 model tree as the base regression model to anticipate Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR). The ensemble methods that combine the output of multiple regression models have been found to be more accurate than any of the individual models making up the ensemble. In this work, the additive boosting, bagging, rotation forest, and...

Equine piroplasmosis is a severe disease of horses caused by the intra-erythrocyte protozoan, Theileria equi and Babesia caballi. The aim of this study was to identify equine piroplasmosis based on molecular and morphometrical features in horses in suburb of Urmia, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. From April to September 2011, a total number of 240 blood samples were collected randomly from hors...

Research suggests a relatively sizable rate of unintended pregnancies in some subgroups of Iranian women, but there is no concise, standard scale to measure the pregnancy intention of Iranian women. Therefore, the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP) were investigated. The Persian version of the LMUP was tested on randomly selected m...

BACKGROUND Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that appears with a range of symptoms including cutaneous, mucocutaneous, and visceral leishmaniasis. The present study sought to determine the antileishmanial effect of the extract of Artemisia dracunculus (Tarragon) compared to control treatment with pentavalent antimony (meglumine). METHODS This experimental study was performed in 2014-2015. ...

background: aflatoxin m1 (afm1) as a carcinogenic and toxic compound has considerable significance from public health viewpoint. the aim of this study was to determine the level of afm1 in pasteurized and uht milk in west-azerbaijan province of iran. methods: a total of 360 commercial milk samples including 220 pasteurized milk and 140 ultra-high-temperature (uht) milk were purchased randomly f...