doi: 10.5812/jjm.31014 Published online 2015 December 26. Correction Corrigendum to: Comparison of Serum Hepatitis B Virus DNA and HBsAg Levels Between HBeAg-Negative and HBeAg-Positive Chronic Hepatitis B Patients [Published in Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology. 2015 March; 8(3): e21444] Heidar Sharafi 1Middle East Liver Diseases (MELD) Center, Tehran, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Heidar S...

1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Middle East Liver Disease Center (MELD), Tehran, IR Iran 4Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, I...

*Oral and Dental Health Care Research Center, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran **Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran ***Student Research Committee,School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Original Article Middle East...

Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases (BRCGL), Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Middle East Liver Diseases (MELD) Center, Tehran, IR Iran Student Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Corresponding author: Mohammad Saeid Rezaee-Zavareh, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Live...

Iranians of whom 52 were females and 109 were males. The median age was 35, the youngest being 18 and the oldest 66 years of age. They represented individuals from all the Iranian regions who live in Tehran, the capital. For the factor V Leiden mutation 9 heterozygotes were found (frequency of 5.5%), with an allele frequency of 2.7% and for the G20210A mutation 5 heterozygotes were found (frequ...

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ . MD, Researcher, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected] . (Corresponding author) MD, Professor of Neurosurgery, Research Vice Chancellor of Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Department of Neuro...

Hepatitis B infection is one of the major health problems throughout the world with the annual infection rate of 350 million cases.(1), According to the WHO data, 75% of this rate is related to the Asian countries.(2), The prevalence of this infection varies among different countries from 10-20% for the Far East (including China and Hong Kong)(3) to 3-5% for the middle-east countries (including...

There has been a global rising trend in recent years in the incidence of multiple sclerosis (MS). Despite being an MS low-risk region, this disease has also been recently on the rise in the Middle East. As part of the Middle East, Iran has not been spared either; however, the cause of this dramatic increase remains to be discovered. This study reviews possible reasons for this increase in Iran....

Wild boar (Sus scrofa) are widely distributed throughout the Old World. Most studies have focused on Europe and East Asia with the genetic diversity of West Asia being less well studied. In particular, the genetic variability and genetic structure of the Iranian populations are not yet known; gaps which prevent scientists from resolving the genetic relationships of the Eurasian wild boar. This ...

The first kidney transplant in Iran was performed in 1967, and this was the first organ transplant in countries that are current members of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation. In 1988, in response to the long waiting list at the Iranian Ministry of Health for kidney transplant, a state-regulated living-unrelated donor kidney transplant program was adopted. By 1999, the kidney tra...