BACKGROUND This comprehensive study was conducted on multi-purpose one-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius) sera and ticks to assess the epidemiological aspects of the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) in northeast Iran. METHODS From May 2012 to January 2013, eleven cities were randomly selected in the Khorasan Provinces of Iran as "clusters," and at least 14 one-humped camels were ...

The aim of this study is pharmacochemistry of Iranian flora Artemisia sieberi and its antimalarial effects on Plasmodium berghei in vivo. This is the first application of A. sieberi for treatment of murine malaria. A. sieberi were collected at flowering stage from the Khorassan and Semnan provinces of Iran; the aerial parts were air-dried at room temperature and then powdered. The powder was ma...

a total of 1,497 serum and blood specimens from residents of 18 different iranian communities were examined by plaque reduction neutralization test for antibodies against four (neaples, sicilian, karimabad and salehabad) phlebotomus fever virus serotypes. neutralizing antibodies against the naples and sicilian serotypes were found in every community sampled, indicating that these viruses are wi...

Irán es el principal centro de especiación y endemismo Astragalus (Fabaceae), mayor género angiospermas en viejo mundo. Las áreas los hotspots del no son bien conocidos necesaria una evaluación detallada utilizando aproximaciones SIG. En este artículo, se estudian patrones distribución espacial endemismos la riqueza especies, análisis parsimonioso endemicidad (PAE por sus siglas inglés) interpo...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the antimalarial effects of Iranian flora Artemisia khorassanica against Plasmodium bergheiin vivo and pharmacochemistry of its natural components. METHODS The aerial parts of Iranian flora A. khorasanica were collected at flowering stage from Khorassan Province, northeastern Iran in 2008. They were air-dried at room temperature; powder was mac...

background: brucellosis is a zoonotic disease and its symptoms and appearances are not exclusive in human and its tradi­tional diagnosis is based on blood culture and serological methods. for more sensitive and specific detection, the pcr method is recommended. methods: one hundred four blood samples were gathered from suspicious patients with brucellosis different ages form ker­manshah, mazand...

this paper is a brief review of what has been carried out on the epidemiology of coetaneous leishmaniasis in mashad research station during the period 1964 through 1967. according to these studies; nine different foci of the disease exist in the province of khorassan. the disease is of urban type in the city of mashad and of rural type in sarakhs and lotfabad areas. the epidemiological type of ...

in this research, 514 soil samples and dead larvae were collected from khorassan, lorestan, tehran, ghazvin, east azarbaijan, west azarbaijan, mazandaran and hamedan provinces. b. thuringiensis was isolated from the samples using a heat-acetate method and the isolates were identified and classified using biochemical tests. the frequency of b. thuringiensis in soils with different plant communit...

  Phelipanche pouyanii is described here as a new species from South Khorassan Province, East of Iran. Its diagnostic morphological features are the calyx teeth being far longer than the calyx tube and staminal filaments being glabrous. These characters clearly differentiated the new species from its closely related taxa, i.e., P. mutelii, P. angustelaciniata and P. nana. Results obtained from...