background according to the reports of world health organization (who) and centers for disease control and prevention, the prevalence of chronic hepatitis b infection in iran has decreased from 2-7% in 2001 to 1.3-0.8% in children aged 2-14 years. in 2010 the institute of medicine recommended more comprehensive screening by primary care physicians (pcps) for evaluation, vaccination, and managem...

evaluation of a malaria screening program was carried out in two screened afghan refugee camps in bardsir and rafsanjan and compared to non-screened afghan refugees within kerman, as well as refugees with malaria diagnosed by communicable disease control (cdc) laboratories in kennan and rafsanjan, by parasitological blood examinations. the study involved 456 residents of two refugee camps and r...

medicinal plants are a source of great economic value all over the world. nature has bestowed on us a very rich botanical wealth and large number of diverse types of plants grows in different parts of the country. in this study the in vitro antimicrobial activity of crude ethanolic, methanolic and water extracts of the stem bark of o.basilicum were investigated. the extracts exhibited antimicro...

conclusions because of increasing prevalence of prediabetes at earlier age, it seems necessary to reconsider the screening age in urban areas and perform the screening in all adults at younger ages. results the prevalence of diabetes was 7.04% (4.52% women, 2.52% men) and the prevalence of prediabetes was 8.58% (5.59% women, 2.98% men). thehighest prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes were obs...

background: among the non-communicable diseases, diabetes mellitus has an important ranking and with annually increasing rate where it is expected the number of people suffering from the disease will reach to 300 million up to 2025 in all of world. the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in iran is 4-4.5% and in population aged above 30 years is greater than 14%. the present study is attempting to fi...

references 1. juckett g, hartman-adams h. human papillomavirus: clinical manifestations and prevention. american family physician. 2010; 82(10): 1209-14. 2. world health organization. human papillomavirus infection and cervical cancer, 2012. [http://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statis tics/en_whs2012_full.pdf ] 3. forouzanfar mh, foreman kj, delossantos am, lozano r, lopez ad, murr...

background: long term exposure to hazards at the work place is injurious to health and usually leads to diseased conditions. the objective of this study was to determine the occupational health problems associated with driving among the professional drivers in sagamu, ogun state, nigeria. methods: this study is a cross‑sectional study. total sample of all the consenting professional drivers in ...

background: in view of the importance of teachers and faculties in changing the perspective of population on this issue, and also the increasing rate of prostate cancer screening, the present study was carried out to evaluate the knowledge base, attitude and performance of teachers and faculty members in relation to prostate cancer screening test. objective: in this study,we evaluated the teach...

cellobiose dehydrogenase (cdh ec.1.1.5.1) is an extracellular enzyme that mainly produced by wood-degrading fungi. it oxidizes cellobiose to cellobionolactone using a wide spectrum of electron acceptors. the key roles of cdh in growth, metabolism, and some other important cellular processes such as cellulose degradation in fungi have been noted. since the demands for finding new sources of cdh ...

in this study, urease production was investigated among thirteen strains of aspergillus niger seven strains isolated from soils of semnan province in iran and six strains obtained from persian type culture collection (ptcc). the enzyme production was screened in two submerged media quantitatively. the registered ptcc 5011 and the native s31 strains showed more urease production than the other e...