A survey of public restrooms microbial contamination in Tehran city, capital of Iran, during 2019.

Introduction: Daily use of public restrooms may have a significant impact on spreading infectious diseases. Human society could be affected by spreading of transitional infectious diseases through feces, urinary tract infection and poor personal hygiene. According to the World Health Organization reports, plenty of people's developed diseases caused by contaminated public restrooms that may result in severe health problems.

Focus on the provincial inequalities in energy consumption and CO2 emissions of Iran's agriculture sector.

Analyzing and understanding the driving factors behind CO emissions is noticeable due to increasing the awareness about CO emissions, and it is a highlight in Iran's agriculture sector because of the increasing amount of CO emissions, inefficient government policies, and rising fossil energy consumption in last decade. By considering the regional differences to investigate this aim, the Theil index and Kaya factor used to analysis the provincial inequality in CO emissions, energy consumption, and identify the driving factor. Using the Theil approach helps us to find out the inequality trend in CO emissions and energy consumption and also inequality across different provinces.

Co-infection with Enterobius vermicularis and Taenia saginata mimicking acute appendicitis.

In this report, we describe an unusual case of verminous appendicitis due to Enterobius vermicularis and Taenia saginata in a 29-year-old woman from Iran. The histopathological examinations and parasitological descriptions of both worms found in the appendix lumen are discussed. The removed appendix exhibited the macroscopic and microscopic features of acute appendicitis.

Increased hair shedding may be associated with the presence of Pityrosporum ovale.

Background And Objective: Although the available data show that hair loss is an important cosmetic problem worldwide, the pathogenesis of common hair shedding is not fully understood. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between hair shedding and cutaneous Malassezia infection. Malassezia fungi have been the suspected cause of dandruff for more than a century.

Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections and their relation with socio-economic factors and hygienic habits in Tehran primary school students.

School age children carry the heaviest burden of morbidity due to intestinal parasitic infections. Our objective was to determine the prevalence of these infections in primary school children living in Tehran and their association with socio-economic factors and hygienic habits. In September 1998, a total of 19,213 subjects were invited to participate.