conclusions given the prevalence of most gastrointestinal parasites, the hiv-positive patients show a weak immune system and higher sensitivity for infection particularly for opportunistic parasites. so, routine stool tests for detection of intestinal parasites are very useful for people with weakened immune systems. results the prevalence of intestinal parasites was 48.8%, which shows a high p...

a total of 76 specimens of three fish species including: hemiculter lucisculus (41), liza auratus (16) and gasterosteus aculeutus (19) were caught using handnet from 3 station in zardi river in the south-eastern costal of caspian sea at autumn and winter 2009 and spring 2010. the fishes were transported alive to the laboratory of shahid rajaee site. they were killed by cutting their spinal cord...

fascioliasis is a worldwide parasitic disease in human and domestic animals. the causative agents of fascioliasis are fasciola hepatica and fasciola gigantica. in the recent years, fasciola resistance to drugs has been reported in the many of publications. fasciola spp has detoxification system including gst enzyme which may be responsible for its resistance. therefore , the aim of the study wa...

background: wild boars, sus scrofa , of wide distribution considered as a potential source of zoonotic parasites. the current study aimed to assess the prevalence of helminth infections in wild boars in the persian gulf coastal area (bushehr province), southwestern iran. methods: twenty-five wild boars, including 11 males and 14 females, were collected during a course of vertebrate pest control...

background: given the fact that bruxism is a prevalent oral habit among children and a potential destructor of oral tissues, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between intestinal parasitic infections and bruxism among kindergarten children. methods: questionnaires were administered among parents of kindergarten children in isfahan to select 50 children identified by their p...

intestinal parasitosis has been a major public health problem in iran. it is necessary to evaluate an up-date data in this regard to be used by local authorities. serum ige determinations and coproparasitological analyses were conducted on 1200 individuals in city of ghaemshahr, mazandaran province, northern iran. a total of 1200 subjects were taken stool samples for three days consecutively. t...

introduction: parasitic diseases could be one of the common problems of human society in any time in every place. the animals can passed this infection to human as zoonotic disease. cats are one of the most important animals that living and eating long with human in society. therefore feline parasitic zoonosis is threatened human health and cause death and serious disease. for the reason, the p...

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: rodents have important role as reservoirs of different parasites. the aim of this study was to determine helminth parasites of abundant rodents in meshkin-shahr, ardabil province northwest iran. methods: from april 2014 to march 2015; 205 rodents including 118 meriones persicus , 63 mus musculus and 24 cricetulus migratorius were collected, using live traps. all rodents were dissect...