In Algeria, Leishmania infantum, Leishmania major, and Leishmania killicki (Leishmania tropica) are responsible for cutaneous leishmaniosis. We established a murine model of L. killicki infection to investigate its infective capacity, some immunophysiopathological aspects, and its suitability for pharmacological purposes. Following the injection of L. major or L. killicki metacyclic promastigot...

background: the rice weevil, sitophilus oryzae and rice moth, corcyra cephalonica are major and cosmopolitan insect. adults of s. oryzae (male and female) and both larvae are insatiable feeders on a great variety of grains. objective: this study was conducted to estimate the insecticidal effect of essential oils from peppermint, mentha piperita l. and black pepper, piper nigrum l. against two m...

BACKGROUND Historically, leishmanization is the most effective protective measure against Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL), CL lesion induced by leishmanization sometimes takes a long time to heal. Manipulation of leishmanization inoculums needed to induce a mild and acceptable CL lesion. The aim of this study was to explore if liposomal form of CpG ODN (Cytosin phosphate Guanin Oligodeoxynucleotid...

We used the RAPD-PCR method for distinguishing the main Old World Leishmania parasites Leishmania tropica, L. major, and L. infantum and applied it to Sauroleishmania species from Iran. Twelve out of 21 tested primers were suitable for identification of these parasites. The Jaccard similarity index was 0.30 for L. tropica and L. infantum as well as for L. major and L. infantum. The similarity c...