UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide. The HCV genotype has a geographic distribution and an important role in clinical and histological outcomes. This study determined HCV genotypes and their related risk factors among patients from Khuzestan Province, Southwest Iran. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, 223 pat...

BACKGROUND Various regions in Iran, especially the Khuzestan Province, have been covered by dust and dirt during the past two years due to environmental changes in the Middle East. We sought to evaluate the effect of these pollutants on the coagulant factors of people residing in Abadan and Khoramshahr, two major cities of Khuzestan Province. METHODS One hundred twenty-nine healthy individual...

Iran is considered as one of the malaria endemic countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) and is at risk due to neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistan in the east, and Iraq to the west. Therefore the aim of the present investigation is the evaluation of the trend of malaria distribution during the past decade (2001-2014) in Khuzestan province, southwestern Iran. In this retrospective cros...

New records of the Oligo-Miocene mekosuchine crocodylian, Baru, from Queensland and the Northern Territory are described. Baru wickeni and Baru darrowi are accepted as valid species in the genus and their diagnoses are revised. Both species are present in Queensland and the Northern Territory but are restricted in time, with B. wickeni known from the late Oligocene and B. darrowi from the middl...

Since late 2019 many people all over the world have become infected and died due to coronavirus. There been general studies about spread of virus. In this study, new accumulated confirmed cases (NCC ACC), recovered (NRC ARC), deaths (ND AD) were evaluated by geographical properties, meteorological parameters air particulate matters between 3 April 2020 11 June within 15 provinces in Iran. Meteo...

palaeoclimatology is a basic approach for the neolithic archaeology. the world-wide climate changes during the holocene ca. 10th millennia bc was an introduction to the neolithic revolution and the emergence of early villages. early holocene climate oscillations changed the biogeography of iran. consequently, its temperature, fauna and flora had been changed during ca. 12800- 3500 bc; and final...