Subject Areas : Report of Health Care

Mohammad Reza Aflatoonian ¹ , Iraj Sharifi ² , Behnaz Aflatoonian ³ , Kouros Divsalar ⁴

1 - MPH, Head of Research Center of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
2 - Professor, Head of Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
3 - MSc, Research Center of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
4 - MSC, Neuroscience Research Center, Institute of Neuropharmacology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Received: 2015-03-06 Accepted : 2015-06-02 Published : 2015-06-01

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