Cobitis faridpaki Cobitis faridpaki (Mousavi-Sabet, Vasil'eva, Vatandoust and Vasil'ev, 2011) is found in streams of the Siahrud River in the southeastern Caspian Sea basin, and this is the first report on reproductive parameters of the newly described endemic loach. Reproductive conditions are key parameters of fish populations, and their assessment is very important for endemic fishes. To stu...

in order to determine prevalence of echinoccocus and other intestinal helminths infection one hundred stray dogs were examined in mashhad area, khorasan province of iran. helminths were collected from intestinal contents obtained at the time necropsy. ninety one percent of the dogs were infected by different helminths. the prevalence of echinococcus granulosus was (22%). eighteen (81%) of infec...

tenia solium , a parasite causes cysticercous cellulose when affecting the central nervous system, the manifestation is called neurocysticercosis. the most common symptom in neurocysticercosis is seizure. generally, oral diagnosticians come across cases of oral cysticercosis and it is rare to find a case of neurocysticercosis in the dental office, as it goes unde-tected. sometimes, when patient...

There is a funder missing from the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: Partial funding was given by CONACYT (Project 129683). AV BioSciences provided support in the form of salary for GV at the time of consultancy, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specifi...

The main aim of this study is to overview the past and present situations of human taeniases and cysticercosis in Indonesia and including future perspectives. Through joint projects from 1996, we have confirmed the occurrence of Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm) in Bali, of Taenia solium (pork tapeworm) mainly in Papua and sporadically in Bali, and of Taenia asiatica in North Sumatra. These taeni...