background: human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) makes infected cases prone to opportunistic infections like tuberculosis (tb) due to impaired immunity of the body, especially multi drug resistant (mdr) ones which are a major concern. with hiv outbreak starting late in the 20th century, the international health community is observing a huge rise in the incidence of this complex disease. herein, w...

background: diagnosis of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (pnes) particularly in patients with epilepsy poses a challenge to physicians to care. this study is aimed at determining the frequency of depression and anxiety among iranian patients with pnes. materials and methods: sixty patients with pnes and one hundred age-and-sex matching healthy controls were enrolled in this study from januar...

background: toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease which occurs mostly through ingestion of tissue cysts or oocyst excreted by infected cats. this study was conducted to determine the sero-prevalence of toxoplasmosis in two migrating lore and khamseh tribes in southern iran living in tents with their domestic animals. materials and methods: during 2010, using cluster random sampling method, 357 bl...

background: lichen planus is a common mucocutaneous disease with unknown etiology. immunodeficiency is a known predisposing factor to this disease. oral candidiasis which is an opportunistic fungal infection, commonly affects healthy and immune-compromised patients. candida has different species bearing different treatments. in this study, researchers aimed to detect the frequency and colonizat...

a 32-year-old female, gravid two, para one, with cushing’s syndrome (cs) was admitted to our hospital at 25 week of gestation with severe hypercortisolism. basal urinary free cortisol (ufc) was elevated about 10 times above the upper limit of normal in two separate times and plasma cortisol failed to suppress after an overnight 1mg dexamethasone suppression test but adrenocorticotropic hormone ...

background: it has been reported that ischemia-reperfusion is associated with augmentation of oxidative stress and its specific and sensitive markers. oxidative stress may cause atrial fibrillation (af) which is a common consequence after cardiac surgery. dietary supplementation with antioxidants might lower the incidence of af following coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) surgery. materials an...

background: family physician plan is known as one of the most appropriate strategies to implement rural health insurance program in the form of referral system in iran. this study aims to determine the satisfaction of family physicians and service consumers and its causes of dissatisfaction in the south of iran. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was performed in kerman health ne...

background: macrolides, lincosamides and type b streptogramins (mlsb) are commonly used for the treatment of staphylococcal infections. inducible mlsb resistance (imlsb) cannot be identified by standard methods of antibiotic susceptibility testing. d-test appears to be a reliable indicator of imlsb strains. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of clindamycin resistance phenotyp...

background: multiple sclerosis (ms) is the most common demyelinating and inflammatory disease of the central nevus system especially in young adults, but in a subgroup of patients the first clinical symptoms present after the age of 50. this clinical presentation is defined as late-onset multiple sclerosis (loms). the incidence and prevalence of ms including loms vary geographically. the aim of...

intercropping is one of the management methods for crop production and leads to improvement of resource absorption and use by plants. based on this purpose the present field study was conducted to evaluate radiation absorption and uses efficiency in corn and bean strip intercropping at the farm of the faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran during 2009. the experiment was s...