background: to determine the prevalence and intensity of helminths and their zoonotic importance in small rodents inhabiting in the suburban areas of hamadan city,iran. methods: the present survey was conducted on the helminth infections of two species of rodents apodemus sylvaticus (n=60) and mus musculus (n=72) in the suburban areas of hamadan city during 2010-2012. rodents were collected and...

background: the aim of this study was to determine intestinal and liver helminth infections in rattus rodents in tehran iran. methods: overall, 306 traps were put in 39 different regions in tehran from 2009 to 2010. rodents, including r. rattus and r. norvegicus were caught by live-traps.they become unconscious and the spinal cords were cut, afterwards the body was dissected and the stomach, sm...

a general rodent control program was carried out in bandar abbas in the persian gulf (15 sep-22 oct 1984). researches on the variety of the rodents and their parasites were done and zincphosphide and comatetralil baits were used for in-doors and out-doors. results obtained showed that these campaigns were successful.

background : this study was aimed to collect wild rodents for endoparasites determination in some parts of sistan and baluchistan province, southeastern iran nearby pakistan and afghanistan countries. methods : a total of 100 wild rodents were captured alive with cage traps. various samples were collected from blood and feces, also impression smear prepared from different organs. the samples we...

ectoparasites are considered as the main vectors of zoonotic diseases. they play an important role for transmission of wide variety of diseases such as cchf, leishmaniosis and plague to human and vertebrates. mammals, especially rodents, are the most important reservoirs of zoonotic diseases. the aim of this study was to identify the ectoparasites of rodents captured in korram-abad, lurestan pr...

abstract rodent have global spread and include the largest order of mammals that their broad range of adaptation is extensive. so far don’t perform a study on rodent fauna of ferdows county. therefore, the aim of this study is to identify this part of the vertebrates in this area. in this regard in order to identification and biosystematics survey of rodent fauna from winter 2014 to june 2014 i...

during a search of burrows for the purpose of capturing rodents in 1972, a number of soil samples were inspected for the collection of sand fly larvae. in this study, a total of 472 plastic bags of soil samples were collected from different depths of 30 rodent burrows. fourteen of these samples were found positive, from which 27 larvae were removed. most of the larvae were found in the depths o...

background: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is a neglected disease with public health importance that is common in many rural areas of iran. in recent years, behavioral resistance and/or bait shyness against the common rodenticide among reservoir hosts of zcl have been reported. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of klerat® and zinc phosphide against natural reservoi...