Publications
| molecular survey of tularemia and plague in small mammals from iran. | introduction: plague and tularemia are zoonoses and their causative bacteria are circulating in certain regions of iran. this study was conducted to investigate potential disease reservoirs amongst small wildlife species in different regions of iran. methods: rodents, insectivores and hares from 17 different provinces of the country were collected in 2014 and 2015. samples were taken from the spleens of the animals and real-time pcr was applied to detect nucleic acid sequences that are specific ... | 2018 | 30042927 |
| first detection of echinococcus multilocularis in rodent intermediate hosts in turkey. | echinococcus multilocularis is the causative agent of alveolar echinococcosis (ae), a potentially fatal zoonotic disease. large parts of turkey are considered as endemic for e. multilocularis. the aim of this study was to determine the occurrence of metacestode of e. multilocularis in wild rodents in erzurum, an endemic region for human ae in turkey. during the sampling period, a total of 498 rodents were trapped in twenty counties of erzurum province. suspected lesions were observed on the live ... | 2017 | 28799893 |