| the changing profile of cutaneous leishmaniasis in a focus of the disease in jahrom district, southern iran. | human cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) is endemic in several parts of iran, and there is an urban focus of the disease in the district of jahrom, which forms part of the southern province of fars. to explore the current profile of the disease in jahrom district, samples were taken from the skin lesions of 40 cases of cl patients in the district, so that the causative parasites could be identified, to species, in a nested pcr. although leishmania tropica has been identified, in the past, as the cause ... | 2010 | 20819305 |
| first report on isolation of leishmania tropica from sandflies of a classical urban cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in southern iran. | shiraz district in south of iran is a classical focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) and previous research has consistently documented the etiologic agent to be leishmania tropica and leishmania major in urban and rural areas, respectively. however, none of the phlebotomus sergenti, a known vector for l. tropica, of the region has been found infected. we report the first isolation of l. tropica from sandflies in urban community of southern part of shiraz city. parasite polymerase chain reaction ... | 2010 | 20570590 |
| characterization of leishmania isolated in iran: 1. serotyping with species specific monoclonal antibodies. | a total of 156 isolates of leishmania from patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis and one isolate from gerbil were characterized using standard monoclonal antibodies (mab) in elisa and ifa test systems. the geographic distribution of the isolates was 30 isolates in shiraz, 28 in kerman and 98 in tehran. a total of 63, 72, and three leishmania promastigote isolates preferentially reacted with anti-leishmania tropica mab (a11), anti-leishmania major mab (t1) and anti-leishmania infantum mab (d2), r ... | 2000 | 10838213 |
| the characterization of leishmania from patients with lymphadenopathy in shiraz, iran. | leishmania were cultured from enlarged lymph nodes of 6 of 18 patients with localized lymphadenitis and no other sign or symptom of leishmaniasis in shiraz, iran. the organisms failed to produce visible lesions when injected intradermally or intraperitoneally into swiss outbred white or balb/c mice. golden hamsters similarly injected appeared well 16 weeks later, but histological examination of their spleens and livers revealed a few amastigotes in sections of the liver of one. lectin agglutinat ... | 1995 | 7570864 |
| leishmania tropica-isolated patient with visceral leishmaniasis in southern iran. | visceral leishmaniasis (vl) is caused by various strains of leishmania donovani, leishmania infantum, and leishmania chagasi with different geographical distribution. the aim of this study was to identify the strains of leishmania that can cause vl in southern iran. dna of leishmania were extracted from the slides of bone marrow aspirates (#42) and spleen punctures (#22), which were positive for leishman body from the patients who were referred to the hospitals affiliated with shiraz university ... | 2006 | 16474088 |