A Preliminary Faunastic Study on Sergentomyia Sand Flies of Maleh Area of Shoush County, South West of Iran, 2010
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There are many published paper regarding roles of Sergentomyia genus in the transmission of infectious diseases in the different countries. Maleh area of Shoush County, south-west of Iran was studied from point of Sergentomyia faunestic in this research project. In the current research study 6 species of Sergentomyia were recognized of 486 collected sand flies. Therefore, it is concluded that further faunustic study of Sergentomyia sandflies in Khozestan, sw of Iran, is a basic point, because CL is endemic in this province and Papatasi fever has been reported from this province.
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