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Originally discovered in 1965 in Maharashtra,India,the Chandipura virus has become a serious hazard to public health,especially in rural areas.Acute encephalitis syndrome,which mostly affects children and has a high d...
Jigjiga University for providing financial support to the study.
Objective:To identify the sandfly fauna and analyze ecology of sandfly vector(s)of visceral leishmaniasis in three districts of Somali Regional State,southeast Ethiopia.Methods:Sandflies were collected from four sampl...
a part of project that was financially supported by School of Public Health,Tehran University of Medical sciences(TUMS),(Proj.No.95-02-27-31419);the center for research and training in skin diseases and leprosy.
Objective:To investigate Phlebotomus(P.)sergenti Parrot,1917(Diptera:Psychodidae)salivary gland antigens and their immune response in human.Methods:Human volunteers were exposed to sand flies’bites in the laboratory,...
financially supported by joint project of “Research Department of the School of Medicine,Shahid Beheshti University of Medical sciences,Tehran,Iran(Grant No:8727);Zoonosis Research Center from Tehran University of Medical Sciences,Tehran,Iran(Grant No:31832)
Objective: To clarify the epidemiological aspects of visceral leishmaniasis in Kaleybar and Khoda-Afarin districts, north-west of Iran.Methods: A total of 1 420 human(children under 12 years) samples, 101 domestic dog...
supported by Tehran University of Medical Sciences(Project No.27252)
Objective: To delineate reliable morphological characteristics for identifying and separating female Phlebotomus caucasicus and Phlebotomus mongolensis which exist sympatrically in the main foci of zoonotic cutaneous ...
sponsored by the Deputy of Research Affairs,Tehran University of Medical Sciences with project number:5146-27-01-86
Objective: To represent a new geographical record, Phlebotomus(Adlerius) kabulensis(P.kabulensis), which is suspected to be a potential vector of visceral leishmaniasis.Methods: For the first time, P.kabulensis specim...
supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program(Grant number OPPGH5336);Gondar University
Objective:To investigate the zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis(ZVL) by identification of the most probable reservoir hosts using parasite isolation and analysis of a possible transmission dynamics of the disease in extr...
supported by the 12th Five-Year Plan for the National Major Program(grant no.2012ZX10004219);the National S&T Major Program(grant no.2012ZX10004220).
After the existence of phlebotomine sand flies was first reported in China in 1910,the distribution of different species and their role in the transmission of visceral leishmaniasis(VL)have been extensively studied.Up...
Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) constitute a large group of flies, many of which have been described as vectors of leishmaniasis, a disease caused by Leishmania (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) p...
supported by the Iranian Center of Diseases Management,Ministry of Health and Medical Education;financially supported by School of Public Health,Tehran University of Medical Sciences;Leishmaniasis Research Center,Kerman University of Medical Sciences,project No.10487
Objective:To identify the Leishmania species in infected sand flies by Real-time PCR coupled with HRM analysis.Methods:Real-time PCR coupled with HRM analysis targeting the first internal transcribed spacer(ITS1)of nu...