| seasonal variation of leishmania major infection rates in sandflies from rodent burrows in isfahan province, iran. | in preparation for field trials of killed leishmania major vaccine, natural infections with leishmania promastigotes were monitored in phlebotomine sandfly vectors from villages of borkhar rural district, northeast of isfahan in central iran, where l.major zymodeme mon-26 ( = lon-1) has been identified as causing zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl). sandflies were collected and dissected weekly, from burrows of rodent colonies, during the "sandfly season', june-october 1991. leptomonad infect ... | 1996 | 8744712 |
| phlebotomine sand flies (diptera: psychodidae) in iran and their role on leishmania transmission. | sand fly research has a long history in iran beginning with the work of adler, theodor and lourie in 1930 and followed by mesghali's foundational taxonomic work on sand flies in 1943. since then, research has been continued unabated throughout the country and official publications report the existence of at least 44 species of sand flies (26 of the genus phlebotomus and 18 of genus sergentomyia) in iran. so far, seven phlebotomus species and one sergentomyia species have been collected and descr ... | 2012 | 23293774 |