purpose: risk factors of pelvic inflammatory disease can be different in different countries because of different sexual behaviors and religious restrictions. this study investigated the risk factors of this disease in iranian women in tehran. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional, descriptive study 1104 women with pelvic inflammatory disease were assessed from may 2010 to march 2011. ...

conclusions health managers in iran should continuously monitor the coverage of vaccination with at least three doses of opv in the level of over 95%, monitor the health of the helmand river water which comes from afghanistan to iran, vaccinate the immigrants and replace bivalent vaccine (bopv) with trivalent (topv) vaccine. context the wild polio virus is disrupted in all countries in the worl...

by the Queensland Public Service, and we are grateful to Dave Stott for providing excellent research assistance and Geraint Johnes and Gareth Leeves for commenting on an earlier draft. Bradley also thanks the School of Economics, University of Queensland, for the provision of excellent facilities to allow the completion of this article. JEL classifications: I10, J22, J44 Correspondence: John Ma...

introduction: regarding the cross contamina-tion, prevention from infection is of high prior ity. the aim of this research was assessment of knowledge and attitude of dental students toward infection control in endodontics depart ment of faculty of dentistry, babol uni versity of medi cal sciences. materials and methods: the study was accom plished among 8th, 10th and 12th grade dental students...

introduction: job stress is one of the main characteristics of modern life which is increasing and has been recognized as an important risk factor of cardiovascular diseases. the present study was conducted to determine the association between job stress at work environment and cardiovascular diseases. materials and methods: a number of 300 persons including 150 cases and 150 controls were cons...

ihd as a modern epidemic of our age is one of the main causes of mortality in iran. this research was done in order to determine the relationship between place of residence and place of occupation (as indicator of air pollution exposures) and other risk factors with ihd. this is a case- control study of ihd involving 191 men aged 45 -70 years. the cases were 91 male patients with myocardial inf...

abstract background: schistosoma haematobium is a parasite that is carried by freshwater snails and induces gastrointestinal and urinary disease, depending on its species. in khoozestan, one of the provinces in iran, schistosomiasis was endemic. this study reports the results of schistosomiasis control in this region. methods: from 1981 to 2001 nearly 650 villages and 20 cities were under surve...

Johnes disease (JD), caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis (MAP), occurs worldwide as chronic granulomatous enteritis of domestic and wild ruminants. To develop a cost effective vaccine, in a previous study we constructed an attenuated Salmonella strain that expressed a fusion product made up of partial fragments of MAP antigens (Ag85A, Ag85B and SOD) that imparted protection aga...

â  background: the relationship between subfertiltiy and celiac disease has been well described and may be the only presenting feature of celiac disease. therefore, this study was designed to show the prevalence of celiac disease in unexplained infertility among iranian patients in tehran, iran. â  methods: this case-control study includes 125 patients with primary unexplained infertility and 1...