during fieldwork in may 2015 in southeastern iran an adult misonne’s swollen-nose gecko, rhinogecko misonnei de witte, 1973 was found. distance of this point into type locality in the west of kerman is 186 km and into next reported in the west of type locality is 238 km. this record introduces a new locality and wider distribution of rhinogecko misonnei in iran. there is information about morph...

Catfish of Anzali wetland has been focused economically and commercially. It also meets the religious Minorities needs to fish meat. So, investigation of its health in the wetland is important. This study aimed to investigate the concentration of heavy metals such as cadmium, Nickle, Zinc and lead in muscle tissues of Catfish in three stations (west, central and east) of Anzali wetland in 2012....

The stool samples from 363 diarrhoeic and non- diarrhoeic children and adults from several locations in two towns of west Azerbaijan area of Iran examined for Cryptosporidium infection by modified Ziehl- Neelsen technique revealed the presence of infection in 7.66% of diarrhoeic patients and in none of the non- diarrhoeic individuals. The percentage of detection was higher among females ( ...

Background In 2012, the Swiss Transfusion SRC founded a working group to develop a WNV preparedness plan for Switzerland in order to deal with expanding spread of WNV epidemics in Europe. Materials and Methods The risk estimates were computed for various presumptive incidence scenarios and brought into relation to cost estimates for the introduction of a routine WNV-NAT screening programme. The...

The Houston West Nile Cohort (HWNC) was founded in 2002 when West Nile virus (WNV) reached Houston, TX. The long-term outcomes following WNV infection are still mostly unknown, though neurological abnormalities up to 1 year postinfection have been documented. We report an observational study of neurological abnormalities at 1-3 and 8-11 years following WNV infection in the HWNC. We conducted st...

1 Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 2 Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 3 Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 4 Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 5 Purdue Ins...