A large-scale entomological survey was carried out in summer 2016 in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It revealed, for the first time, the presence of the phlebotomine sand fly Phlebotomus (Transphlebotomus) mascittii Grassi, 1908 (Diptera: Phlebotominae) in south-western Slovakia. Species identification of a captured female was confirmed by both morphological and sequencing (COI) analyses.

BACKGROUND The cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) has been occurred in Dehbakri County, located 46 km of Bam District, Kerman Province since 2004-2005. Phlebotomus papatasi is an important vector of zoonotic cutaneous leishmanisis (ZCL) as well as sand fly fever and P. sergenti is considered as main vector of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) in Iran. There are several measures for vector c...

Animal models are often used to study hematophagous insect feeding behavior and evaluate products such as topical repellents. However, when these models are used the study animals often experience significant drops in core body temperature because of the effects of anesthesia. This study used a guinea pig model to investigate whether maintaining a normothermic core body temperature during anest...

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...

La leishmaniasis es una entidad infectocontagiosa generada por protozoo derivado del género Leishmania, trasmitido a través de la picadura hembra infectada Phlebotomus, un parasito intracelular obligado, lo que hace blanco terapéutico difícil las características le confiere esta condición. Su reservorio natural consta canidos, roedores y el ser humano1. Esta zoonosis presenta grandes incidencia...

leishmaniasis (vl) is a life-threatening vector-borne parasitic disease is distribut-ed in some parts of the new world and old world. the disease is endemic in different parts of iran. this review article has been focused on major topics of epidemiological aspects and clinical features of vl in iran for the period of 2002 through 2012. for the detection of vl in humans as well as animal reservo...

new distributional data are given for 27 species of iranian glaphyridae. two of them, glaphyrus calvaster zaitzev, 1923, and pygopleurus transcaucasicus (petrovitz, 1962), are recorded from iran for the first time. further data on glaphyridae species and their status in iran is provided.

a total of 1,497 serum and blood specimens from residents of 18 different iranian communities were examined by plaque reduction neutralization test for antibodies against four (neaples, sicilian, karimabad and salehabad) phlebotomus fever virus serotypes. neutralizing antibodies against the naples and sicilian serotypes were found in every community sampled, indicating that these viruses are wi...