american foulbrood disease (afb) is one of the most important bacterial diseases of honey bee can be caused severe losses in apiaries. afb caused by paenibacillus larvae a gram positive and spore-forming bacterium. this study was taken placed in 15 area of east azerbaijan province of iran between 2006-2007 years. in this study, 500 bee hives were randomly selected from 100 apiaries. standard ba...

Background. Colorectal cancer is the third most prevalent cancer worldwide, which is less common in the Middle East; its prevalence demonstrated to be 7 persons per 100,000 populations in Iran. In this study, we aimed to investigate the clinicopathologic features of CRC patients in West Azerbaijan province of Iran. Methods. In this crosssectional study, 546 patients who underwent surgical proce...

BACKGROUND Gastric cancer is considered as the second most prevalent cancer in Iran. The present research sought to identify high risk clusters of gastric cancer with mapping using space-time scan statistics. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present research is of descriptive type. The required data were gathered from the registered cancer reports of Cancer Control Office in the Center for Non Commu...

BACKGROUND To prevent and control the cancers in Iran, the Iranian Department of Health has released the cancer rates data of the country. As the report has suggested, the incidence rate of thyroid cancer would be the most rapidly increasing among all the cancers. The study has aimed to carry out a qualitative assessment of thyroid cancer in Iran, during the 2004 to 2009, in a cross-sectional s...

Objective Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) has been shown to predict clinical outcomes in many diseases. To our knowledge, the prognostic significance of RDW in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) has not been reported so far. The aim of the present study is to investigate the relation of RDW to in-hospital mortality in patients with AECOPD. Methods W...

the aim of the present research was to investigate the relationship between the components of organizational intelligence and organizational culture in physical education general office and offices in east azerbaijan province. the present research was a descriptive – correlation one and performed as a field. the statistical population consisted of the staff of physical education general office ...

in order to determination of elite genotype of cornelian cherry (cornus mas l.) in east azerbaijan province, iran, current study was conducted in complete factorial randomized design with three replication on 14 local commercially cultivated genotypes in orchards of kaleibar, east azerbaijan, iran in 2014. for this purpose, 16 quantitative, qualitative and biochemical characteristics of fruits ...

wood mice of the genus apodemus are widespread in temperate areas of the palaearctic region. dental shape variation and morphological differences among three species of apodemus (a. witherbyi, a. hyrcanicus, a. uralensis) were investigated using outline-based geometric morphometrics of the second upper molar (m2/) and a morphological study of 92 museum specimens belonging to five populations of...