Background & Aims: Keratoconus (KC) is an eye disorder in which the cornea is swollen, thinned and deformed. Despite extensive studies, the pathophysiological processes and genetic etiology of KC is unknown. The disease incidence is approximately 1 in 2000 and is the most common cause of corneal transplantation in the US. Many genes are involved in the disease, but evidence suggests a major rol...

  Background and Objectives: An increasing number of tularemia was reported in all over the world. This infection is characterized by different clinical syndromes that can be considered in differential diagnosis of infectious disease. Despite effective antibiotics against Francisella tularensis, this infection is still as one of the agent of mortality and disability among infectious disease.Th...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis is still an important problem in developing countries. The tuberculin skin test (TST) is used for the identification of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. This study aimed to evaluate the TST results of healthy employees of different departments in chaharmahal province, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was done on 1,424 healthy employees from 49 different depart...

background and aims: there are different causes for brain death including head trauma, cerebrovascular accidents and intracranial space-occupying lesions. the present study was aimed to determine the causes of brain death in chahar mahal and bakhtiari province due to high turnover of trauma in this area during 2003 to 2013. methods: this study was based on routine data and was conducted on all ...

background and objectives: an increasing number of tularemia was reported in all over the world. this infection is characterized by different clinical syndromes that can be considered in differential diagnosis of infectious disease. despite effective antibiotics against francisella tularensis, this infection is still as one of the agent of mortality and disability among infectious disease.the a...

soil-dwelling mites and especially gamasina (mesostigmata) are very important to soil ecosystems. they are one of the major groups rich in species and abundance. in order to study mesostigmatic mite fauna, soil samples were collected from different oak forests of lordegan region. the mites were extracted using berlese-tullgren funnels and then cleared in lactic acid and mounted in hoyer's mediu...

drought and salinity are the most important environmental stresses that are causing adverse effects on natural ecosystems. there are species among iranian natural germplasm that are resistant to environmental harsh conditions. restoring of degraded ecosystems, promoting of biodiversity and increasing of species richness will provide by identifying of these species. almond species with broad eco...