1Department of Molecular Biology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran; 2Department of Bacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran; 3Department of Microbial Biotechnology, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran; 4Infectious Diseases ward, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 5Infectious Diseases ward...

1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tarbiat Moallem University, Tehran, Iran. 2 Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. 3 Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, University of Helsinki, P. O. Box 56, Viikki Biocenter, Viikinkaari 9, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland. 4 Department of Biotechnology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medi...

b a ckground: the aim was to survey the specific factors, which cause to decrease blood feeding of mosquitoes important to succeed vector control. m e t hods: larval collection was carried out from fixed and variable breeding places of yazd county, central iran in 2009. autogeny-anautogeny, stenogamy-eurygamy, and blood preference of culex pipiens were studied using standard mosquito cages bloo...

1. Department of Biological Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran. 2. Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. 3. MSc student in Developmental Biology Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran. 4. BSc in Biology, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute fo...

BACKGROUND Epidemics of mosquito-borne viral infections such as dengue, chikungunya, West Nile and Rift Valley fevers in neighbouring countries and risk of introduction of exotic vectors into Iran have placed this country at a significant risk for these mosquito-borne diseases. METHODS After the first dengue case reported in Iran in 2008, active entomological surveillance of Aedes albopictus ...

1 Extremophiles Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, ACECR, Tehran 19395-4644, Iran 3 Applied Virology Research Center, Baq...