| 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 |
| low diversity of leishmania parasites in sandflies and the absence of the great gerbil in foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in fars province, southern iran. | fars province lies to the south of the main foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) caused by leishmania major in central and northern iran, and its zcl foci might have emerged more recently because of different transmission cycles. however, there have been limited studies of the parasites infecting the regional sandfly vectors. | 2013 | 23604865 |