SUMMARY hydatic cyst is a serious disease of man. That cause by a worm called taenia echinocococus, the adult worm lives in small bowel of dog and other canine host. The dog is the usual definitive host of this parasite and is important for transmition of this disease. In this study a total of 283 stray dags Teheran country were investigated for the present of intestinal metazoan parasites. T...

during 1979-77 a large number of kurdish populations in northern part of iraq temporarily immigrated to iran and settled in dezful area of khuzestan province, south-west iran. faecal examination of 3,263 samples for intestinal metazoan parasites and 1,154 urine samples for detecting schistosoma haematobium, infection were performed in different sex and age groups. the percentages of prevalent i...

during 1980-82, a total number of 4143 stool samples, from 2332 males and 1811 females, referred to the central laboratory of the school of public health, were examined for intestinal parasites. all the specimens were examined for intestinal parasites. all the specimens were examined by formol-ether concentration and wet-mount (ringer solution) techniques. the main prevalent pathogenic parasite...

in this paper, the metazoan parasite community system of capoeta damascina in the tigris basin (mesopotamian region) in the middle-east is presented. overall, 54 species have been identified. between 2005 and 2008, iranian surveys of capoeta damascina found a total of 47 metazoan parasites species, most identified to species level. in addition, 6 parasite species from iraq and 1 species from oc...

a systematic parasitological examination was carried out on 266 freshwater fish speci-mens, belonging to 11 species, from northwest of iran during the period from summer 2001 to summer 2002. twelve parasite species including diplostomum spathaceum, al-locreadium isoporum, ligula intestinalis, digrama sp., caryophylleus laticeps, rhabdocona hellichi, eustrongylides excisus, argulus foliaceus, la...

background: parasitic diseases are among the most important problems of many countries in the world, especially developing ones. since various parts of iran have different types of weather, jobs and people, different and separate epidemiological studies for each province will be necessary. we have scarce information on the epidemiology of intestinal parasites in tribal regions of khuzestan prov...

introduction: intestinal parasites have world wide prevalence and are considered to be as one of the leading hygienic and economic problems in the world. it can be said that there is nowhere in the world without parasitic infestations. the present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites in patients referring to yazd central laboratory in 2000-2002. methods: the p...

background: blastocystis  is a zoonotic protozoan parasite habit in intestinal tract of humans and wide range of animals. because of the mysterious nature and unknown or less-known aspects of blastocystis, comprehensive information about epidemiology of this parasite is not available. the objective of this study was to investigate the available parasitology studies during the last decade in ira...

background: for a long time, intestinal parasite infections are among the major problems of public health in iran. our aim was epidemiological studies on the frequency of intestinal parasites in patients re­ferred to three hospitals in tehran during 2007-2008. methods : during 2007-2008, by simple random selection, 1000 stool samples were collected from mi­lad, hazrat-e-rasoul and shahid fahmid...

background: intestinal parasitic infections have a worldwide distribution. high prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in individuals with low socioeconomic status and environmental conditions was found. no study has ever been conducted on the prevalence of these infections in jiroft. therefore, in this study prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections was evaluated in jiroft, kerman p...