intestinal parasitosis has been a major public health problem in iran. it is necessary to evaluate an up-date data in this regard to be used by local authorities. serum ige determinations and coproparasitological analyses were conducted on 1200 individuals in city of ghaemshahr, mazandaran province, northern iran. a total of 1200 subjects were taken stool samples for three days consecutively. t...

introduction: parasitic diseases could be one of the common problems of human society in any time in every place. the animals can passed this infection to human as zoonotic disease. cats are one of the most important animals that living and eating long with human in society. therefore feline parasitic zoonosis is threatened human health and cause death and serious disease. for the reason, the p...

in this paper, the metazoan parasite community system of capoeta damascina in the tigris basin (mesopotamian region) in the middle-east is presented. overall, 54 species have been identified. between 2005 and 2008, iranian surveys of capoeta damascina found a total of 47 metazoan parasites species, most identified to species level. in addition, 6 parasite species from iraq and 1 species from oc...

a systematic parasitological examination was carried out on 266 freshwater fish speci-mens, belonging to 11 species, from northwest of iran during the period from summer 2001 to summer 2002. twelve parasite species including diplostomum spathaceum, al-locreadium isoporum, ligula intestinalis, digrama sp., caryophylleus laticeps, rhabdocona hellichi, eustrongylides excisus, argulus foliaceus, la...

background: rodents have important role as reservoirs of different parasites. the aim of this study was to determine helminth parasites of abundant rodents in meshkin-shahr, ardabil province northwest iran. methods: from april 2014 to march 2015; 205 rodents including 118 meriones persicus , 63 mus musculus and 24 cricetulus migratorius were collected, using live traps. all rodents were dissect...

Monkeys are important experimental models for investigating human diseases. The aim of this study was to survey the alimentary tract parasites among imported vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) to Iran. Fecal samples were collected from 40 vervets imported from Tanzania to Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute of Iran. Fecal samples were assessed by direct smear and Telman sedimentation...