background: cutaneous leishmaniasis due to leishmania major has become a hot topic in iran. the objective of this study was to determine some ecological aspects of sand flies in the study area. methods: sand flies were collected biweekly from indoors and outdoors fixed places in the selected villages, using 30 sticky paper traps from the beginning to the end of the active season of 2006 in kerm...

b a ckground: cutaneous leishmaniasis due to leishmania major is a serious and increasing problem affecting manyrural areas of 17 out of 31 provinces in iran. little is known about sand fly fauna and leishmaniases in eastern iran and no study has been carried out in sarbisheh county. the aim of this study was to determine sand flies composi- tion and probable leishmania infection to find the pr...

reports from the health center of kerman province, southern iran showed an increasing of cutaneous leishmaniasis cases in orzuieh rural district, southwest of the province in 2003. the report encouraged the team to carry out an epidemi ological survey in the district during 2003-2004. the objectives were to determine the ecology of sand flies, potential reser voir hosts and human infection. a t...

interoduction: cutaneous leishmaniasis is a major health problem in some parts of iran,which exists as zoonotic and anthroponotic forms in different foci of the country.following an epidemic of cutaneous leishmaniasis in bafgh city,(yazd province, centeral iran),this study was carried out to determine the ecology of sandflies,reservoir hosts and human infection in 2005. methods: this descriptiv...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Leishmaniasis is an endemic parasitic disease reported sporadically throughout Iran. Golestan province is one of the 17 zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) foci. In this study, ecoepidemiological characteristics of ZCL were investigated in Gonbad-e Kavus County, Golestan province of Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out in three endemic villages a...

This study was conducted around Céret (Pyrénées-Orientales, mean elevation 200 m) to test the statistical reliability of 12 stations devoted to sampling the Leishmania infantum vectors Phlebotomus ariasi and P. perniciosus in the South of France. Each station included a retaining wall and the surrounding phytoecological environment (total area: 2,000 m(2)). The wall had rectangular drainage cav...

R esum e. Il est bien connu que la m ethode de Newton, lorsqu'appliqu ee a un probl eme d'in equation variationnelle fortement monotone, converge localement vers la solution de l'in equation, et que l'ordre de convergence est quadratique. Dans cet article nous mon-trons que la direction de Newton constitue une direction de descente pour un objectif non dii erentiable et non convexe, et ceci m^ ...