abstract rodent have global spread and include the largest order of mammals that their broad range of adaptation is extensive. so far don’t perform a study on rodent fauna of ferdows county. therefore, the aim of this study is to identify this part of the vertebrates in this area. in this regard in order to identification and biosystematics survey of rodent fauna from winter 2014 to june 2014 i...

during a search of burrows for the purpose of capturing rodents in 1972, a number of soil samples were inspected for the collection of sand fly larvae. in this study, a total of 472 plastic bags of soil samples were collected from different depths of 30 rodent burrows. fourteen of these samples were found positive, from which 27 larvae were removed. most of the larvae were found in the depths o...

background: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is a neglected disease with public health importance that is common in many rural areas of iran. in recent years, behavioral resistance and/or bait shyness against the common rodenticide among reservoir hosts of zcl have been reported. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of klerat® and zinc phosphide against natural reservoi...

introduction:One of the most important chalenges in studing the anxiety disorders like PTSD is ethical limits in order to make the animal anxious. Sometimes  this anxiety should last for a long time such as rodent models of PTSD, and this needs aggressive proceses on rats.We found a new approach for a rodent model of PTSD, wich seems to be more efficient and ethical. Materials and Methouds...

rodents are well established at port areas and their ectoparasite can be vectors of many diseases. ships at seaport play an important role in spreading disease by transporting infected vectors. plague, murine typhus, salmonellosis, trichinosis, leptospirosis and rat bite fever are known to be spread by rats. in view of the seriousness of the problem present study was undertaken to assess the pr...

background: zoonotic   cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is an increasing health problems in many rural areas of iran. the aim of this study was to introduce a new alternative rodenticide to control the reservoirs of zcl, its effect on the vector density and the incidence of the disease in hyperendemic focus of esfa­han county, central iran. methods: the study was carried out from january 2011 to j...

abstract background: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is one of the most important vector-borne diseases in iran. wild rodents play as a reservoir. the main aim of this study was to determine spatial analyses of the relationship between rodent’s active burrows and incidence of zcl in golestan province, north east of iran . methods : the cross-sectional study was conducted in 59 rural dist...

W h i l e l i t t l e information is a v a i l a b l e on the d i s t r i b u t i o n and incidence of most of the diseases with rodent reservoirs, many of them are known to be widespread and may have considerable p u b l i c health importance in some of the foci in which they are found. The World Health Organization is carrying out investigations on the epidemiology of several diseases with ro...

Given that rodents are responsible for nearly 280 million cases of undernutrition worldwide and about 400 people affected by rodent-associated zoonoses annually, management rodent populations agricultural pests and/or reservoirs pathogens is a major food security public health matter. In sub-Saharan Africa, the median crop loss due to 16% in field around 8% during storage. The impact on not wel...