Methods: Case-control observational study of 518 people in western Santa Catarina, including 259 patients diagnosed with CM between 2002 and 2012, and 259 age-, sex, and residence-matched controls. Pigmentation characteristics, presence and size of nevi and history of cutaneous neoplasia, sun exposure, and sunburn were evaluated. Data were subjected to univariate and multiple logistic regressio...

recently, biofertilizer application is growing to meet sustainable agriculture goals. the present experiment was designed to evaluate four nitrogen levels (0, 60, 90 and 120 kg n.ha-1) as main plots, two supernitroplus biofertilizer levels) with and without biofertilizer) as sub-plots on yield and yield components of three sesame cultivars (naz, oltan and varamin (as sub-sub-plots in a split-sp...

background: cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) is one of the most important neglected tropical diseases and a major public health challenge in iran caused by leishmania spp and transmitted by phlebotomine sand flies. the number of cl cases has shown an increasing pattern all over the country, including the district of varamin, southeast of tehran, iran. this study aimed to identify the leishmania spp...

the melon aphid, aphis gossypii glover (hemiptera: aphididae), is one of the most important pests of agricultural products in iran. in this study, susceptibility of melon aphid that collected from seven regions (yazd, varamin, mohammadshahr, esfehan, karaj, hashtgerd and ramsar) was compared to pirimicarb and malathion after 24 hours in 2009. bioassay experiments on adults were carried out by u...

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Integration of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) DNA into the genome of an infected cell is one of the key steps in the viral replication cycle. The viral enzyme integrase (IN), which catalyzes the integration, is an attractive target for the development of new antiviral drugs. However, the HIV-1 therapy often results in the IN gene mutations inducing viral resistance to integration inhibito...

duced in acetic acid bacteria with a single species, Asaia bogorensis Yamada et al. 2000 (Yamada et al., 2000). Since the second and the third species were additionally described as Asaia siamensis Katsura et al. 2001 and Asaia krungthepensis Yukphan et al. 2004, three species were described in total (Katsura et al., 2001; Yukphan et al., 2004). Strains of the three Asaia species show common ph...