background toxoplasma gondii is a unicellular apicomplex organism, belonging to the toxoplasma genus. the parasite infects humans, as well as mammalians and different species of birds, and it can be propagated in a wide range of host cells. there have been no appropriate molecular or serological studies carried out previously in iran on the prevalence of toxoplasma gondii in rodents. objectives...

filariasis in dogs is caused by several species of filariids. because of importance of this infection in veterinary medicine and public health, it is necessary to carry out an epidemiological and cross sectional studies in various geographical areas and use of well-adapted diagnosis methods. in this study 205 capillary and whole blood samples were collected from doges in various counties of eas...

b ackground: the aim of the present study was to determine the molecular characteristics of echinococcus granulosus from paraffin-embedded tissues of hydatid cysts isolated from human and protoscoleces of hydatid cysts from sheep, cattle and camel isolates using pcr- rflp of its1- rdna analysis in golestan province, northern iran. m ethods: e . granulosus isolates from human patients infected w...

nosema is a genus of microsporidia, which have significant negative impacts on honeybees. the aim of this study is the epidemiological evaluation and molecular characterization of nosema spices in various counties of east-azerbaijan province (northwest of iran). 387 samples were collected from colonies maintained in various counties of east-azerbaijan province. samples after preparation were...

the quality traits of triticum dicoccoides ku-13441 (triticum turgidum l. var. dicoccoides (aabb, 2n= 4x= 28)) were analyzed by mixograph, and the results showed that t. dicoccoides ku-13441 had desirable qualities in gluten strength and flour stirring tolerance. subsequently, seventeen novel full-orf α-gliadin genes and thirty-five pseudogenes were cloned and sequenced from t. dicoccoides ku-1...

leptospirosis caused by infection with pathogenic leptospires, which is the most prevalent zoonotic disease in the world. the outer membrane proteins (omps) of pathogenic leptospires such as lipl41 play a crucial role in pathogenesis of this disease. therefore a major challenge to develop an effective vaccine against leptospirosis is application of basic research on the omps of leptospires to i...

myxosporean taxonomy which is traditionally based on the morphology of the myxospore stage, is in a state of flux given new insights provided by the expanding dataset of dna sequences. to date, more than 40 species of thelohanellus from india have been described according to morphometric characteristics. nevertheless, molecular data on these histozoic myxosporean parasites of freshwater fish ar...

conclusions overall, we found that obi was rare, but that the prevalence of obi was slightly higher in jiangsu than in other areas of china. methods all donor samples were routinely screened by double enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) for hepatitis c virus (hcv), hepatitis b virus (hbv), human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), treponema pallidum (tp), and alanine aminotransferase (alt). sin...

myxosporeans are best known for the diseases they cause in commercially important fish species. identification of myxosporeans at the species-level is mainly based on conventional methods. the 18s rrna gene sequence of morphologically identified myxobolus orissae infecting the gill lamellae of mrigal carp cirrhinus mrigala was characterized in the present study. the plasmodia of m. orissae were...

background: interest in tatera indica rodent arises mostly because it is believed that this species is survived among four subspecies reported from iran, two of which exist in khuzestan province. in addition, it might has a role as res­ervoir hosts of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in the transmission of leishmania major in some of the widespread asian foci including southwestern iran. method...