An entomological survey was carried out in two districts of central (Kruje) and northern (Lezhe) Albania. Six collecting sites, showing a variety of diurnal resting sites, were monitored for adult sandflies from June through October 2002. Flies were collected with CDC miniature light traps, sticky traps and mechanical or hand aspirators in peridomestic sites, in bedrooms and inside cow barns, c...

Phlebotomus argentipes is an established vector of visceral leishmaniasis in India and other countries of the sub-continent1,2. Phlebotomus argentipes is primarily zoophilic as it prefers animal bait seven times more than the human bait in similar situation3. However, the blood meal analysis proves that it is anthropophilic as well as zoophilic in nature4. Female P. argentipes takes blood from ...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is one of the most important vector-borne endemic diseases in Turkey. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of temperature on the developmental rates of one important vector of leishmaniasis, Phlebotomus papatasi (Scopoli, 1786) (Diptera: Psychodidae). Eggs from laboratory-reared colonies of Phlebotomus papatasi were exposed to six constant tempe...

Numerical analyses (correspondence analysis, ascending hierarchical classification, cladistic approach) were applied to the morphological characters of the adults of the genus Phlebotomus Rondani & Berté 1840. They confirm the reliability of the classic classifications, and also redefine the taxonomic and phylogenetic position of certain taxa. Thus, Spelaeophlebotomus Theodor 1948. Idiophleboto...

background : zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is a neglected tropical disease prevailed in many rural areas of 17 out of 31 provinces in iran. the main vector of the disease is phlebotomus papatasi and the causative agent is leishmania major in zcl foci of iran. in the current study we investigated the validity of accessory glands secre­tions as an indicator to recognize parous from nulli...

conclusions this is the first molecular report on parasite infection of both vector (p. papatas) and reservoir (t. indica) to l. major from this area. therefore, the population of both sandflies and rodents should be reduced using control methods. background leishmaniais which is one of the six most important tropical diseases in the world are in iran in 3 forms. cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) is...

EVIDENCE UTILIZATION IN HEALTH POLICY MAKING BASED ON THE THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR Mohammad Hasan Imani Nasab, Bahareh Yazdizadeh, Masoud Salehi, Hesam Seyedin, Reza Majdzadeh. Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran; Knowledge Utilization Research Center, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, ...

background: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) due to leishmania major is increasing in many parts of iran. this disease originally is a disease found in gerbils. leishmania parasites are transmitted by sandflies that live and breed in gerbil burrows. nested pcr amplified leishmania its1-5.8s rrna gene in both main reservoir host “rhombomys opimus” and in the “phlebotomus papatasi” main vec...