Diversity and abundance of the sawfly (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) community in Darab rain-fed damask rose plain, Fars province, southwestern Iran

Background: In the health services, financial resources are limited. An important way to save and prevent resources from going to waste is to use clinical guidelines. Objectives: The objective of this study was to estimate the wasted cost as a result of ignoring clinical guidelines for a typical disease. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in Fars province. 392 physicians were enrolled in this study and were asked to write a prescription for a hypothetical patient with streptococcal sore throat. Prescriptions were priced and compared to standard treatment costs and analyzed by SPSS software. Results: Mean, median and mode of prescribed drugs in each prescription was 3.1, 3.0 and 3.0, respectively. Only 8.4% of the prescriptions were in accordance with the clinical guidelines, and 12% had led to mistreatment. Usually, physicians with more experience prescribed more expensive medications, and 45.5% of the total medication cost had gone to waste. About 5% of household drugs are waste. Due to mistreatment, 2 patients developed acute rheumatic fever. Conclusions: Waste of recourses and patients out of pocket payment was high, which reduces patient’s ability for obtain other necessary healthcare services. Hence, training the physicians and developing clinical guidelines is an urgent necessity to prevent resources from being wasted.

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Human cystic echinococcosis in southwest Iran: a 15-year retrospective epidemiological analysis of 501 consecutive hospitalized cases (2004-2018)

10.21203/rs.2.18051/v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Reza Shahriarirad ◽

Amirhossein Erfani ◽

Mehrdad Eskandarisani ◽

Mohammad Rastegarian ◽

Hajar Taghizadeh ◽

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Keyword(s):

Clinical Features ◽

Cystic Echinococcosis ◽

Fars Province ◽

Epidemiological Analysis ◽

Mortality And Morbidity ◽

Average Annual Incidence ◽

Southwestern Iran ◽

Southwest Iran ◽

Human Cystic Echinococcosis ◽

Significant Mortality

Abstract Background: Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is considered a neglected disease with significant mortality and morbidity in most of the developing countries. The current study aimed to retrospectively assess the epidemiologic and clinical features of human CE in a 15-year period in Fars province, southwestern Iran. Methods: Hospital records of patients undergone surgeries for CE in two main hospitals in Fars Province, southwestern Iran in a 15-year period (2004-2018) were reviewed and data concerning the patients' demographical and clinical features were retrieved from each record. Results: A total of 501 CE surgical cases were recorded during a 15-year period, giving an average annual incidence of 33.4 cases in which 242 (48.6%) were male and 256 (52.4%) were female. Patients' age ranged from 2 to 96 years, with a mean age of 34.92 (±19.87) years. A significantly higher rate of CE cases was noted in subjects ≥ 50 years of age. The highest frequency of cases (62: 12.5%) was recorded in the year 2017. The most commonly involved organs were liver (339 cases; 57.8%), and lung (279 cases; 47.6%). Concurrent involvement of two organs was seen in 58 (9.9%) cases of both lung and liver, 10 (1.6%) cases of lung and other locations (but not liver) and 23 (3.9%) cases of liver and other locations (but not lung). Recurrence was noted in 67 (13.37%) of the cases. The size of the lung hydatid cyst varied, ranging between 2 to 24 cm (mean = 7.33, SD= 3.737). The size of liver hydatid cysts ranged from 1 to 26 cm (mean: 9.04, SD= 4.275). Conclusion: The findings of the current study demonstrated a nearly constant prevalence of CE during the last 15 years in southern Iran. Further studies are needed to find out the reasons behind the recurrence of the disease, which is substantial, in surgically-treated patients.

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Immature stages and male of Paraseiulus amacroporus Faraji et al., (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) from Southwestern Iran

Acarologia ◽

10.24349/acarologia/20174201 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 57 (4) ◽

pp. 869-876

Author(s):

Bahman Asali Fayaz ◽

Mohammad Khanjani ◽

Samira Bakhshi ◽

Edward A. Ueckermann

Keyword(s):

Adult Male ◽

Morphological Characteristics ◽

Fars Province ◽

Immature Stages ◽

Pistacia Atlantica ◽

South West ◽

Southwestern Iran ◽

Pistachio Trees

This study presents the morphological characteristics of immature and adult male stages of Paraseiulus amacroporus Faraji, Jalaeian and McMurtry, 2008 (Phytoseiidae) collected from pistachio trees, Pistacia atlantica Desf. (Anacardiaceae), Shiraz vicinity (Fars province), South west Iran. The genders of the deutonymphal stage can be determined by the number of paired setae in the opisthogaster (six in female vs. four in male).

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Insect succession on carrion in Fars Province, southwestern Iran

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences ◽

10.1186/s41935-019-0124-8 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Davood Keshavarzi ◽

Mohammad Ali Zaimy ◽

Mustapha Ahmed Yusuf ◽

Marzieh Shahriarinamadi ◽

Sogol Parkhideh

Keyword(s):

Fars Province ◽

Southwestern Iran

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Investigation on the role of microorganisms in manganese mineralization from Abadeh-Tashk area, Fars Province, southwestern Iran by using petrographic and geochemical data

Ore Geology Reviews ◽

10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.06.035 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 80 ◽

pp. 229-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Mohammad Ali Rajabzadeh ◽

Fatemeh Haddad ◽

Márta Polgári ◽

Krisztián Fintor ◽

Heléna Walter ◽

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Keyword(s):

Geochemical Data ◽

Fars Province ◽

Manganese Mineralization ◽

Southwestern Iran

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Helminths of the Eurasian marsh frog, Pelophylax ridibundus (Pallas, 1771) (Anura: Ranidae), from the Shiraz region, southwestern Iran

Helminthologia ◽

10.2478/helm-2019-0022 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 56 (3) ◽

pp. 261-268

Author(s):

V. León-Règagnon

Keyword(s):

Larval Stage ◽

Helminth Species ◽

Fars Province ◽

Marsh Frog ◽

Pelophylax Ridibundus ◽

Southwestern Iran ◽

Cosmocerca Ornata

SummaryFourty seven specimens of Pelophylax ridibundus were collected in the vicinity of Shiraz, Fars Province, Iran in 1972. Fourteen helminth species were found, eight digeneans (Diplodiscus subclavatus, Halipegus alhaussaini, Haematoloechus similis, Codonocephalus urniger, and four species of metacercariae) and 6 nematodes (Cosmocerca ornata, Rhabdias bufonis, Abbreviata sp., Eustrongylides sp., Onchocercidae gen. sp. and one species of larval nematodes). Of these, only six are adults, while 8 are in their larval stage. The most prevalent helminths were the metacercariae of Codonocephalus urniger (61.7%) and the larvae Abbreviata sp. (55.32%). The adults with the highest prevalence are the digenean Halipegus alhaussaini, and the nematode Cosmocerca ornata (34% in both cases).

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Koroští Balúčové a jejich jazyk / The Koroš Baloch and their language

Kulturní studia ◽

10.7160/ks.2020.150202 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 (2) ◽

pp. 30-46

Author(s):

Habib Borjian ◽

Keyword(s):

Parallel Systems ◽

Number System ◽

Fars Province ◽

Source Language ◽

Language Varieties ◽

Southwestern Iran ◽

Case Number

The Korosh is an outlying Baloch group associated with the Qashqai tribal confederation of the Fārs province in southwestern Iran. Entirely isolated from Balochistan, the dialect of the Korosh, Koroshi, distinguishes itself in grammar and lexicon among Balochi language varieties. The phonology of Koroshi demonstrates a solid Balochi pedigree but not without major mu¬tations. Likewise, the nominal case-number system of Koroshi shows significant deviation from most other Balochi dialects. In verb morphosyntax a salient peculiarity is the coexist¬ence of two parallel systems of the imperfective, which appear to be stabilizing in an evolu¬tionary process of Koroshi aspect system. Borrowing from the neighboring languages is salient in the lexical domain, where Persian, the Fārs dialects, and Qashqai Turkic each play a part as the source language.

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HPTLC and TLC method development preliminary studies for damask rose

10.1055/s-0037-1608230 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

T Agar Osman ◽

A Gokbulut ◽

O Demirezer Lutfiye

Keyword(s):

Method Development ◽

Damask Rose

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