ectoparasites of various species of rodents were examined from sarepole zehab, kermanshah province iran during 2005. this city is bordered with iraq. a total of 139 rodents included 6 species of hosts were captured during all different seasons and examined for ectoparasites using live trap. the area of study was mainly plateu (70%) and mountanous. the hosts including: microtus socialis, mus mus...

two isolates of trichinella were obtained from the jackal, canis aureus: one from the north caspian area, the other from the south-west khuzestan area of iran. the infectivity of the isolates was tested in laboratory animals, in a wild rodent (tatera indica) and in wild pigs. the isolate from khuzestan was of low infectivity to albino rats and it was provisionally identified as trichinella nels...

this study was carried out in arsanjan county fars province, a new focus of zcl, during 1999-2000. totally fifty nine meriones libycus captured by live traps and four out of them (6.8%) were naturally infected with parasites. parasites were cultured in monophasic medium rpmi 1640 and isolated promastigotes were identified using rapd-pcr test in medical parasitology unit of shiraz university of ...

background cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) with diverse clinical manifestations is prevalent and remains a major public health problem in iran, while its incidence has been doubled over the last decade. this study was performed for the first time in larestan, fars province, located in southern part of iran to determine infectious patterns in the reservoir hosts and sand fly vectors using parasitol...

Male South Indian gerbils (T. indica cuvieri), both adults and weanlings, were olfactory bulbectomized (OBX) and changes in male reproductive behaviour were assessed. Consequent to OBX, majority of the adult males failed to ejaculate, and courtship behaviour has also been considerably reduced. All OBX weanlings were rendered incapable of ejaculation. However, maturational parameters, and organ ...

there is little known about the systematics and population structure of indian gerbils (tatera indica) in iran. in the present study six populations of t.indica from different localities of iran were compared according to morphology, morphometry and karyological studies to determine the status of these populations at the sub specific level. the univariate, bivariate and multivariate statistical...

Rodents are one of the most important vertebrate pests which directly and indirectly distress to the production of crops and storage of grains. Rodents especially under the Family Muridae can cause serious damage to cereal crops of all kinds including wheat. The present investigation was conducted to observe the pattern of damage by rodent (Rrodentia: Muridae) pests in wheat in conjunction with...