beta thalassaemia is present throughout the southern regions of the former USSR. We have defined the clinical picture of the disorder, the spectrum of beta thalassaemia mutations, and the role of customary consanguineous marriage in Azerbaijan, where thalassaemia presents a public health problem of the same order as that in Greece. Contrary to earlier suggestions, we found that the common form ...

The major purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing the design of agriculturaladvisory service network in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran. The population of thisresearch consisted of consultants who provided services to farmers. By using a Cochranformula, 306 respondents were selected. The results showed that consultants faced manyobstacles such as lack of necessary facilit...

BACKGROUND There has been no previous study into the state of emergency medicine in Azerbaijan. As a legacy of the Soviet Semashko system, the "specialty" model of emergency medicine and integrated emergency departments do not exist here. Instead, pre-hospital emergency care is delivered by ambulance physicians and in-hospital care by individual departments, often in specialty hospitals. Emerge...

The Azerbaijan Republic considered being primary or secondary center of origin, domestication and diversity of many indigenous varieties of folk selection of fruit crops and their crop wild relatives (CWRs). The wild relatives of major fruits and nuts like grapevine, apple, pear, quince, medlar, pomegranate, fig, cherry, apricot, almond, hazelnut, walnut, chestnut, pistachio and others are pres...

Spondylitis is a reemerging epidemic spinal infection in male broiler chickens (5 to 7 weeks of age) as well as broiler breeder roosters (15 to 18 weeks of age). Among various causative agents, Enterococcus species and in particular E. cecorum, a gram-positive bacterium as a gastrointestinal flora of birds, have mostly been isolated. On late September 2015, a number of 10 week...

Background: Ninety-five percent of low birth weight infants are born in developing countries. This study was aimed to assess the predictors of low birth in East Azerbaijan, North-west province of Iran. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted through a hospital based case–control design involving 49 women delivering low birth weight infants and 98 delivering normal weight infants. The dat...

productivity of hospital beds: evaluation of inpatient bed days in the west azerbaijan selected hospitals     nabilu b [1] , mohebbi i [2] , alinezhad h [3]     received: 19 apr, 2012 accepted: 20 jun , 2012    abstract  background & aims: all over the world, healthcare systems are under intense pressure to improve their performance . the cost of healthcare is a critical issue for employers and...

 The abundance and species composition of ciliates were analyzed in the Bukan Dam Reservoir (West Azerbaijan, Iran) from January to December 2008. Surface water samples were collected at monthly intervals from the middle (Stations 1 and 3) and shallow (Stations 2 and 4) areas of the lake. Three samples were taken in the water column using a 5-litre sampler. Totally 30 liters water was collected...

takab-e afshar in the north – west of iran. it is in a mountainous area near the cities of dandi in zanjan, and takab in west azerbaijan, lies a complex of historical and natural properties among which stands the world heritage properties of takht-e soleyman with all its features. the present protective buffers for this site have been defined without considering the natural and cultural landsca...