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abstract          background and objective: cutaneous leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease and a health problem in different parts of iran, especially two cities of mashhad and chabahar. due to morphological similarities of most leishmania species and difference in reservoirs of l. major and l. tropica, it is necessary to determine the parasite specie to combat the disease. thus, this study use...

background: leishmaniasis is a protozoan disease cause by leishmania genus. anthroponotic and zoono­tic cutaneous leishmaniasis are endemic in iran. the aim of this study was to identify the causative agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis by mini-exon gene in five regions of khuzestan province, southwest of iran. methods: from 2007 to 2008 in this cross-sectional study, cutaneous samples were collec...

 Background: The rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae and rice moth, Corcyra cephalonica are major and cosmopolitan insect. Adults of S. oryzae (male and female) and both larvae are insatiable feeders on a great variety of grains. Objective: This study was conducted to estimate the insecticidal effect of essential oils from peppermint, Mentha piperita L. and black pepper, Piper nigrum L. ag...

BACKGROUND Leishmaniasis is an important public health disease in many developing countries as well in Iran. The main objective of this study was to investigate on leishmania infection of wild caught sand flies in an endemic focus of disease in Esfarayen district, north east of Iran. METHODS Sand flies were collected by sticky papers and mounted in a drop of Puri's medium for species identifi...

background: the mechanisms of virulence and species differences of leishmania parasites are under the influence of gene expression regulations at posttranscriptional stages. in iran, l. major and l. tropica are known as principal agents of cutaneous leishmaniasis, while l. infantum causes visceral leishmaniasis. methods: as a preliminary study, we compared the proteome mapping of the above thre...