BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a fatal zoonotic disease in tropical and sub-tropical countries including Iran. Dogs constitute the main domestic reservoir for VL (kala-azar) in Iran but incidence of the disease in cats from Fars and East Azerbaijan provinces has led to propose them as secondary reservoirs, and possible expansion of the feline role in the transmission of ...

Human linguatulosis poses an important medical and veterinary concern in endemic countries. Animals, as reservoir host, play a major role in transmission of infestation and epidemiology of the disease. This study reports a case of human linguatulosis caused by Linguatula serrata in the city of Kerman, South-eastern Iran. A woman suffering from upper respiratory symptoms is presented. The patien...

BACKGROUND Addiction, theft and Prostitution are of the most important problems of contemporary society. On the other hand, self-esteem is one of the most important variables and concepts that might have a meaningful influence on these problems. This study aims to investigate the role of self-esteem in the individuals' tendency to addiction, theft and prostitution in Kerman city, Iran. METHOD...

BACKGROUND Despite the importance of identifying and screening dyslipidemia to prevent coronary artery diseases CAD(Coronary Artery Disease), little information is available on dyslipidemia in our large area. So the present study aimed to assess the management status of lipid abnormalities and its association with other CAD risk factors in an urban population of southeast of Iran. METHODS Thi...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers. The aim of this study is determination its trends in Kerman province and individual cities separately until year 2016. This analytical and modeling study was based of cancer registry data of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, collected during 2001-2010. Among 20,351 cancer case, 792 were colorectal cancer cases in age group 18-93 years wi...

diarrhea is an important hygienic problem in under development countries. among pathogenic agents escherichia coli is the most etiologic agent of diarrhea in children below five years old. some e. coli strains produce cytotoxins that have cytopathic effect on vero cell and identified as verotoxin. this study performs for resolve frequency of vero toxigenic escherichia coli (vtec) in kerman city...

In today's world, Abstract City-marketing and urban-branding strategies play an essential role in the tourism industry. Tourism activists compete with each other to attract more tourists their attractions. promoting a touristic attraction, branding, both physical spiritual aspects are crucial. Developing infrastructures, built heritage, iconic architecture is as well reinforcement of historical...

Many studies have suggested that cardiovascular and respiratory disease mortality may change with fluctuations in temperature. In this study the relation between temperature and mortality has been studied in a city with desert climate. Four years data on daily temperature, cardiovascular, respiratory mortality and air pollution was acquired for Kerman, Iran. Time series, regression and correlat...

The association of HLA class II genes with ulcerative colitis (UC) as an autoimmune disease has been investigated for several years. However, factors responsible for genetic predisposition of this disease have so far not been clearly understood. In this study, for the first time, we aimed to investigate the association between HLA-DRB1 types and UC in the population of Kerman, a city southeast ...

DDS, MS, Alireza Rekabi 2 DDS, Hasan Shahabi 2 DDS, Rezvan Ashuri 2 DDS, , MPH, Maryam Rad 4 DDS, MS, and Jahangir Haghani 5 DDS, MS Endodontics, Dental School, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman Oral and Dental , Kerman, Iran. f Endodontics, Dental School, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. and Biostatistics, Physiology Research Center, Kerman University of Medical...