1 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences. Golestan Hospital. Ahvaz, Khuzestan (Iran) 2 Department of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. Golestan Hospital. Ahvaz, Khuzestan (Iran) 3 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. Iman Hospital. ...

Two stocks of grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella Val were collected from North, Mazandran and South, Khuzestan to compare some morphometric and meristic characters. The Khuzestan stocks were significantly greater in body length, intestine length and number of vertebrae than the Mazandran stocks (p<0.05). The body width, depth of Mazandran were higher but gill raker lower than another stock. The...

BACKGROUND An analysis performed on the collected data from the Local Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC) of Jundishapur University revealed that stings are the main causes of poisonings with frequency of 56%, followed by drug poisoning in 31%, and chemical exposure poisoning in 5.5% in Khuzestan, the southwestern province of Iran. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to report t...

UNLABELLED Cancer is the third highest cause of premature mortality in Iran. We aimed to determine trend of common cancers in Khuzestan province, Iran. METHODS It was a hospital based survey on 4065 subjects from their hospital files, those had registered as cancer case in Shafa hospital which has known as a biggest center of cancer in Khuzestan province, Iran during 2005-2011.All data has en...

BACKGROUND The androgen receptor (AR) gene contains a polymorphic trinucleotide repeat that encodes a polyglutamine tract in its N-terminal transactivation domain (N- TAD). We aimed to find a correlation between the length of this polymorphic tract and azoospermia or oligozoospermia in infertile men living in Khuzestan, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this case-control study during two years t...

BACKGROUND Cutaneous leishmanisis (CL) is found worldwide and is considered to be endemic in 88 countries such as Iran. Geographic information system (GIS) is a method that can create, archive, analyze traditional map and place data of the disease distribution. The aim of this study was to produce distributional maps of CL over five years and evaluate the role of GIS in control of CL in Khuzest...

BACKGROUND Coccidiosis is an intestinal disease of chickens caused by various species of protozoan parasites within the genus Eimeria. Diagnosis and genetic characterization of different species of Eimeria are central to the prevention, surveillance, and control of coccidiosis. The aim of this study was to detect different chicken Eimeria species from several areas in Khuzestan, southwest Iran....

BACKGROUND Cancer is an increasing cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Incidences of common cancers has been growing in different provinces of Iran in recent years but trends in Khuzestan which shares a border with Iraq and is located in south west of Iran have not been investigated. This study aimed to assess secular changes in incidences of common cancers in Khuzestan province from 20...