Department of Health Education; Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to F. Rakhshani: [email protected]). 2Department of Health Education, Tarbiat Moddares University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. ABSTRACT A qualitative study in Zahedan, Islamic Republic of Iran, used focus group discussio...

Majid Naderi Shadi Tabibian Maryam Sadat Hosseini Shaban Alizadeh Soudabeh Hosseini Hossein Karami Hassan Mahmoodi Nesheli Akbar Dorgalaleh Departement Of Pediatrics Hematology & Oncology, Ali Ebn-e Abitaleb Hospital Research Center For Children And Adolescents Health [RCCAH], Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, IR Iran Department of Hematology, Allied Medical School, Tehran Univer...

Zoning and Monitoring of Meteorological Drought in Arid Desert Areas using SPI, SIAP PN indices (Case Study: Zahedan Plain)

background hepatitis b virus (hbv) is likely to be more prevalent in certain populations and occupational groups, such as municipal solid waste workers (mswws). objectives the current study aimed to estimate the prevalence of hbv and its risk factors among mswws compared to other municipal employees not exposed to waste. patients and methods the current cross-sectional study included 654 munici...

BACKGROUND/AIM The annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, which attracts more than 3 million Muslim pilgrims from around the world, has played a role in the global spread of meningococcal infection. We aimed to compare pharyngeal carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in Hajj pilgrims before departure and after returning to Iran, Zahedan. MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective and cross-sectional study...

BACKGROUND Smokeless tobacco consumption is one of the causes of oral cancer. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of smokeless tobacco consumption among male students of Zahedan universities and associated factors in 2012. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 431 students were selected from the universities of Zahedan using multi-stage random cluster sampling...

Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection results in more severe and even fulminant form of hepatitis B in co-infected cases. This study was designed to estimate the prevalence of anti-HDV positivity and the associated risk factors in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Zahedan (Iran). In this cross-sectional study a total of 440 consecutive patients with chronic hepatitis B virus ...

BACKGROUND Colonization of nasopharynx by Streptococcus pneumoniae can lead to pneumococcal diseases. This study was performed to determine the carriage rate of nasopharyngeal S. pneumoniae in adolescents, antibiotic susceptibility and serotype prevalence in Zahedan, Iran. METHODS Nasopharyngeal specimens from 865 adolescents (age range: 10-19 years old) attending eight schools in Zahedan, Ir...

Article history: Received: 31 Jan 2012 Accepted: 19 Apr 2012 Available online: 29 Oct 2012 ZJRMS 2013; 15(6): 43-49 Background: As relatively avirulent enteric bacteria, enterococci usually cause infections in immune-compromised patients. The antimicrobial treatment, however, is quite challenging, since enterococci are intrinsically resistant to many antibiotics. Objective of the present study...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the performance of the faculties of Islamic Azad University of Zahedan Branch based on two-component (teaching and research) decision making units (DMUs) in data envelopment analysis (DEA). Nowadays it is obvious that most of the systems as DMUs do not act as a simple inputoutput structure. Instead, if they have been studied more delicately, they include net...