BACKGROUND Free-living amoebae such as Acanthamoeba species may act as carriers of Cryptosporidium and Toxoplasma oocysts, thus, may play an important role in the water-borne transmission of these parasites. In the present study, a loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method for detection of Toxoplasma and a PCR assay were developed for investigation of Acanthamoeba in environmental wa...

INTRODUCTION According to the health-promoting approach, people should be empowered such that they take responsibility for their health and follow a healthy lifestyle. Empowerment is a process in which people confront problems and tasks in their lives in order to better control them. This study was conducted to specify the relationship between individual empowerment and health-promoting lifesty...

Jalil IMANI HARSINI*, Hamid-Reza REZAEI, Saeid NADERI, Hosein VARASTEH MORADI Department of Environment and Energy, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Department of Fisheries and Environmental Science, Faculty of Environmental Science, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Natu...

Concentration of heavy metals in different tissues (muscle, liver, gonad, skin, kidney) Roach (Rutilus rutilus caspicus) Guilan coasts the Caspian Sea

In this study, ITS–rDNA region was used to identify some anamorphic powdery mildews in Guilan province. According to the results, Erysiphe species on Vicia faba and Sesbania punicea showed 100% similarity to each other, however, without ITS sequence of holotype of E. sesbaniae it is impossible to make conclusion whether Vicia faba powdery mildew fungus actually belongs to E. sesbaniae or E. tri...

this study was carried out to continue identifying unknown and less known anamorphic fungi from guilan province. plant materials with fungal signs and symptoms were collected and examined to identify causal agents. four species viz. alternariacalendulae (on calendulaofficinalis), pseudocercosporasordida(on campsis sp.), thedgonia ligustrina (on ligustrum vulgare) and zygosporium oscheoides (on ...

during a faunistic study of the family carabidae in guilan province in summer 2011, beetle specimens were collected directly or by using pitfall traps and light traps. a species of ground beetles was identified and later confirmed by dr. r. felix (berkel enschot, the netherlands) as parophonus dia (reitter). this species is recorded from iran for the first time.

a Department of Endodontics, Dental School, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran; b Department of Endodontics, Dental School, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran; c Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Dental School, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran; d Non-Communicable Pediatric Diseases Research Center, Babol University of Medical Science...