background: interest in tatera indica rodent arises mostly because it is believed that this species is survived among four subspecies reported from iran, two of which exist in khuzestan province. in addition, it might has a role as res­ervoir hosts of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in the transmission of leishmania major in some of the widespread asian foci including southwestern iran. method...

Lyme disease risk is related to the abundance of infected nymphal ticks, which in turn depends on the abundance and reservoir competence of wild hosts. Reservoir competence of a host (i.e., probability that an infected host will infect a feeding vector) often declines over time after inoculation, and small mammalian reservoirs typically undergo rapid population growth during the period when vec...

a novel gram-positive actinobacterium isolated from a human clinical source. Four-year prospective study of STAPH-IDENT system and conventional method for reference identification of Staphylococcus, Stomatococcus, and Micrococcus spp. Alvarez-Grande J. Relapsing bacteraemia due to Micrococcus luteus in a haemodialy-sis patient with a Perm-Cath catheter. To the Editor: Some 80% of parasitic infe...

Groups of chronically infected reservoir-hosts contaminate resource patches by shedding a parasite׳s free-living stage. Novel-host groups visit the same patches, where they are exposed to infection. We treat arrival at patches, levels of parasite deposition, and infection of the novel host as stochastic processes, and derive the expected time elapsing until a host-jump (initial infection of a n...

conclusions regarding infection rate of 17.8%, m. hurrianae seems to play the major role in the maintenance and transmission of disease to humans in this area. materials and methods rodents were entrapped by live traps baited with roasted walnut, tomato, and cucumber during spring and summer. all rodents were identified based on external features including fur color, ears characteristics, tail ...

The existence of long-lived reservoirs of latently infected CD4+ T cells is the major barrier to curing HIV, and has been extensively studied in this light. However, the effect of these reservoirs on the evolutionary dynamics of the virus has received little attention. Here, we present a within-host quasispecies model that incorporates a long-lived reservoir, which we then nest into an epidemio...

a new reservoir host of trichinella was identified as: herpestes auropunctatus, (mangoose) in province of khuzestan, south west of iran. wild swine, brown bear jackal and wild cat have been reported as natural host for trichinella so far. the larvae obtained from the mongoose was infective for rat and white mouse, but the latter was more sensitive comparatively (this study was carried out in th...

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