Publications

first detection of leishmania infantum dna in wild caught phlebotomus papatasi in endemic focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis, south of iran.	to identify the vectors and reservoirs of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the endemic focus of farashband, fars province, south of iran.	2013	24075350
molecular characterization of leishmania spp. in reservoir hosts in endemic foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in iran.	zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is an expanding disease and a public health issue in iran. in the present study, rate of natural infection of rodent populations with leishmania was investigated in six endemic foci including 28 villages in golestan, esfahan, yazd, fars, khuzestan and ilam provinces. a total of 593 rodents were captured and identified as rhombomys opimus (n = 325), meriones libycus (n = 171), meriones persicus (n = 27), tatera indica (n = 37), nesokia indica (n = 12), rattu ...	2013	23951928
first detection of leishmania major in rattus norvegicus from fars province, southern iran.	zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis is an important health problem in iran and a great economic burden on the health resources. in southern iran (fars province), meriones libycus was reported as the main reservoir of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in arsanjan and marvdasht cities, and tatera indica and gerbillus spp. were the reservoirs reported in larestan and kharameh districts. because of an increase in human cutaneous leishmaniasis in fars province, this study was performed to identify the ro ...	2010	20426685
a search for the rodent hosts of leishmania major in the larestan region of southern iran: demonstration of the parasite in tatera indica and gerbillus sp., by microscopy, culture and pcr.	zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) caused by leishmania major occurs widely in iran, where several species of rodent serve as the parasite's 'reservoir' hosts. in an attempt to identify the rodent hosts in the larestan region, which lies in the fars province of southern iran (where the incidence of human cl has been rising), 32 rodents (20 tatera indica, eight meriones crassus, four gerbillus sp.) were caught and checked for leishmanial infection. using two detection methods (the microscopica ...	2007	17524246