objective this study aims at determining the epidemiologic, presenting symptoms, clinical course and electrophysiologic features of childhood guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) in the east azarbaijan province over a period of five years. materials & methods  all the patients, aged< 15 years, referred/admitted to tabriz children hospital with gbs between january 2001 and december 2005 were investigat...

Technical Appendix Table. Documented cases of rabies imported into European Union member states and Switzerland, 2001–2010. Year Country Source Case details Reference 2001 Germany Nepal Two German nationals acquired a dog in Nepal and subsequently had it vaccinated in Iran on January 16, 2001. Two to 3 days later, the dog began behaving aggressively and was euthanized on January 23. The cadaver...

Objective: The present study investigated and compared the effects of peer multimedia teaching methods on medication adherence heart failure patients. Methods: This quasi-experimental was done in Arak University Medical Sciences hospitals, Arak, Iran. Samples were 44 patients with failure, studied two groups. Twenty-two received education through content developed by researchers a trained educa...

BACKGROUND Low birth weight (LBW) is considered as a major multifaceted public health concern. Seventy-two percent of LBW infants are born in Asia. An estimation of 8% LBW infants has been reported for Eastern Mediterranean region including Iran. This study investigated contributory factors of LBW in singleton term births in Tehran, Iran. Tehran is a multicultural metropolitan area and a sample...

the aim pf the present study was to compare three different methods for detection of food and mouth disease virus antigens(a, asia1, o1)from mouth epithelium samples and also to monitore the distribution of fmdv serotypes 338 cattle and 34 sheep of iran during 2000-2001. the suspension fluids of processed tongue epithelium samples were clarified by centrifugation and tested for presence of fmdv...