12 articles in this issue
Shafia Saba, Ata Ur Rehman Khan, Unsar Naeem-Ullah, Syed Haroon Masood Bokhari
Background: Dengue fever (DF) has become a major public health concern globally. It is an infection caused by a virus of the family Flaviviridae, with five serotypes (DENV 1–5). Recent years have seen an increase in the prevalence of the disease in Pakis... see more
Sahereh Gholami, Hasan Bakhshi, Seyyed Hassan Moosa-Kazemi, Alireza Zahraei-Ramazani, Alireza Chavshin, Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat
Background: Malaria is an important mosquito-borne disease considered as one of the public health concerns across many countries. Anopheles mosquitoes are the main vectors of Plasmodium parasites, which cause malaria. Some of these vectors such as Anophel... see more
Yasaman Alijani, Saeedeh Sadat Hosseini, Salman Ahmadian, Sonia Boughattas, Gilda Eslami, Shadi Naderian, Vahid Ajamian
Background: Regarding the antimonial-resistant of Leishmania spp., understanding of related mechanism is necessary. One of the most important involved molecules is aquaglyceropin1 (AQP1). The aim of this study was molecular analysis of AQP1 gene from an... see more
Eman Mohammed Abouelhassan, Hamdy Mohammed ElGawady, Ahmad Anwar AbdelAal, Amal Kamal El-Gayar, Maria D. Esteve Gassent
Background: Ticks are obligate blood-sucking ectoparasites of vertebrates. Since many tick identification studies are based on the analysis of 16S rDNA, 12S rDNA and ITS-1, 2 rDNA genes, we aimed to compare the performance of these molecular markers of co... see more
Najmeh Hesami, Mohammad Reza Abai, Hassan Vatandoost, Mostafa Alizadeh, Mahboubeh Fatemi, Javad Ramazanpour, Ahmad Ali Hanafi-Bojd
Background: Mosquitoes are very important vectors of diseases to human. We aimed to establish the first spatial database on the mosquitoes of Isfahan Province, central Iran, and to predict the geographical distribution of species with medical importance.M... see more
Sung-Ying Liu, Yu-Hui Chang, Hui-Ru Ji, Cheng-Di Chiu
Background: House dust mite (HDM) is associated with hypersensitivity such as asthma. It is suggested that patients with asthma benefit from improved living environment by reducing HDM exposure. In this study, we examined the effects of commercialized dia... see more
Fatemeh Bagheri, Hassan Vatandoost, Mansoureh Shayeghi, Yavar Rassi, Ahmad Ali Hanafi-Bojd, Abbas Rahimi-Foroushani, Alireza Razavi, Fatemeh Nikpour Alkaran
Background: The excessive use of pesticides for crops by farmers, their destructive effects on beneficial organisms, such as bees, have become a big problem today. This study was designed to find out if the honey bee (Apis mellifera) and the honey be affe... see more
Eslam Moradi-Asl, Hassan Vatandoost, Davod Adham, Daryosh Emdadi, Hassan Moosa-Kazemi
Background: To investigate the diversity of the genus Aedes present in the natural areas of Ardabil Province, north-west of Iran.Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out from Apr to Oct 2016 in North-western of Iran. Thirty-three areas of 10 ci... see more
Afshin Barazesh, Mohammad Hossein Motazedian, Moradali Fouladvand, Gholamreza Hatam, Saeed Tajbakhsh, Sepideh Ebrahimi, Danial Purkamal
Background: Leishmania major and Leishmania tropica are two main species causing cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Iran. Recently, Crithidia spp. has also been reported in the wound of patients with CL. In this study, we determined the species causing CL in... see more
Bentol Hoda Habibi-Shorkaei, Afsaneh Motevalli-Haghi, Mehdi Nateghpour, Leila Farivar, Homa Hajjaran, Soudabeh Etemadi
Background: To overcome human malaria problem several solutions have been employed including extensive studies in the field of Plasmodia relevant antigens. The aim of this study was to determine allelic variation in the MSP1 gene of Plasmodium falciparum ... see more
Samin Madreseh-Ghahfarokhi, Amir Dehghani-Samani, Yaser Pirali, Azam Dehghani-Samani
Background: Rhipicephalus bursa is a hard tick with importance in transmission of tick-borne diseases and zoonosis. Natural products are excellent alternative to pesticides. In this study for the first time, lethal and repellent activity of Zingiber offi... see more
Emre Ozan, Harun Albayrak, Semra Gumusova, Cenk S. Bolukbas, Mithat Kurt, Gokmen Z. Pekmezci, Yunus E. Beyhan, Hamza Kadi, Selma Kaya, Ismail Aydin, Zafer Yazici
Background: Whether zoonotic or not, arboviral infections are continuing to be a major threat to human health as well as the livestock industry all around the world. This project presented the results of the identification study on five arboviruses, inclu... see more