background: cutaneous leishmaniasis due to leishmania major has become a hot topic in iran. the objective of this study was to determine some ecological aspects of sand flies in the study area. methods: sand flies were collected biweekly from indoors and outdoors fixed places in the selected villages, using 30 sticky paper traps from the beginning to the end of the active season of 2006 in kerm...

b a ckground: cutaneous leishmaniasis due to leishmania major is a serious and increasing problem affecting manyrural areas of 17 out of 31 provinces in iran. little is known about sand fly fauna and leishmaniases in eastern iran and no study has been carried out in sarbisheh county. the aim of this study was to determine sand flies composi- tion and probable leishmania infection to find the pr...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of fly ash on the consistency, compactness, acidic properties, and strength of organic soil. The presence of organic content in the soil has detrimental impacts on the physical and strength behavior of soil. To investigate the effectiveness of fly ash in the stabilization of organic soil, two types of fly ashes (Type I and Type II) at different...

background: visceral leishmaniasis (vl) is one of the most important parasitic zoonotic diseases in the world. do­mestic dogs are the main domestic reservoirs of vl in endemic foci of iran. various methods, including vaccination, treatment of dogs, detection and removal of infected dogs have different results around the world. general policy on control of canine visceral leishmaniasis is protec...

objective: ajowan is an annual herbaceous essential oil of carum copticom. the main components of the oil are tymol, β-pinene, γ- terpinene and sabinene.the fruit oil of carum copticum has been reported to have several therapeutic effects including anti fungal, anti bacterial and anti viral,... candida albicans is an opportunistic fungus and transforms into pathogenic form in favorable conditio...

background & aim: despite valuable medicinal properties of safflower, breeding new varieties and development of the crop culture area has been limited due to the lack of genetic variation for some crucial characteristics as resistance to diseases and pests like safflower fly. in this study, populations of wild safflower, c. oxyacanthus were collected from western, central and southern regio...

In this paper, the influence of fly ash content on concrete surface chloride concentration was investigated through periodical tests of surface chloride concentration of concrete by immersing three kinds of concrete specimens in 5.0 wt.% sodium chloride solution. One kind of specimen is common concrete without fly ash, whereas the other two kinds of specimens are mixed with fly ash. The results...

The complete DNA sequence of the mtDNA cytochrome oxidase II gene from house fly, Musca domestica, face fly, Musca autumnalis, stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, horn fly, Haematobia irritans, and black garbage fly, Hydrotaea aenescens, are reported. The nucleotide sequence codes for a 229 amino acid peptide. The COII sequence is A + T rich (74.1%), with up to 12.3% nucleotide and 8.4% amino acid...

Male Syrian golden hamsters were given 15 weekly intratracheal instillations with suspensions of coal fly ash or oil fly ash. Controls were instilled with saline containing gelatine (0.5 g/100 mL) or to check particle effects with suspensions of hematite (Fe2O3). The common weekly dose was 4.5 mg/hamster. In addition, one subgroup of hamsters was treated with oil fly ash at a weekly dose of 3.0...