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January 2013 - May 2015
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Background: Toxocariasis is a disease caused by Toxocara nematodes and occurs from consuming their eggs. The main hosts of these worms are dogs and cats. The disease in humans becomes a visceral larva migrans (VLM). This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the prevalence of toxocariasis in children aged 6–14 years.
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Background and objectives: Leishmania major is a flagellated parasitic protozoan that causes cutaneous leishmaniasis. Pentavalent antimony compounds are considered the first-line drugs in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis. However, the use of these drugs is associated with numerous limitations and side effects. Therefore, there is a need for...
Background and Objectives: Leishmaniasis is a public health problem caused by the protozoan Leishmania. Pentavalent antimonials are currently used for treatment of leishmaniasis, but they have serious side effects. Nerium oleander L. has been used in traditional medicine due to its various health-protective properties. This study aimed to investiga...
Introduction: Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan, Toxoplasma gondii. In people with healthy immune system, generally, the infection is asymptomatic, but for the people with immune deficiency severe disease can be observed in case of the acute infection or activation. Determination of prevalence of anti-Toxoplasma antibodie...
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The purpose of this study was seroepidemiological and parasitological assessment of Toxocara canis infection in children and dogs in Zabol and Chabahar, Iran.
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This study was a descriptive-analytic study with a simple random sampling of children under 14 yr old, referring to urban, rural, and tribal laboratories of Zabol and Chab...
Canids are reservoir for some zoonoses helminthic disease. They are one of main public health problem. The aim of this study was to ascertain frequency of gastrointestinal helminthic infection of stray dogs in Zabol city, southeaster of Iran. In this descriptive study, 30 stray dogs were euthanized, intestine was removed by necropsy. Then, the inte...
Objective: Acanthamoeba is one of the most abundant free-living amoebas that is widely distributed in natural and artificial environment resources. Acanthamoeba pathogenic genotypes cause chronic human diseases including amoebic keratitis and granulomatous amoebic encephalitis. The aim of this study was to determine and identify Acanthamoeba genoty...
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Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) is polymorphic disease that may show various clinical manifestations.
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This study investigates the determination of genetic variation within the species of Leishmania major isolates from new cases in Chabahar, a port city in Southeast Iran (situated at the Iran-Pakistan border). Migra...
Background and purpose: Hydatid cyst is a zoonotic world-wide infection, caused by larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus. Its mean infection rate in Iran is 1.2 surgical case per 100,000. Hydatidosis is of great economic and medical importance. So, this study was designed to determine the seroprevalence of human hydatidosis using ELISA. Materials...
Background: Cutaneous leishmaniasis is one of major public health problem in many countries. Pentavalent antimonite components as first line treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis has many limitations and side effects.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigatethe cytotoxic effect of methanolic extract of Terminalia chebula Retz fruit on the...
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a health problem in the world. Lesions should be treated on cosmetically or functionally important sites, such as the face and hands. Cantharidin is a terpenoid compound produced naturally by beetles of Meloidae and Oedemeridae families.
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The current study aimed to investigate the effect of canthar...
Leishmania major is causative agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis is most public health problem in developing countries. Cantharidin is vesicant found in the Meloidae beetles hemolymph. Protein phosphatase 1 and 2A is the primary target of cantharidin. Cantharidin induce apoptosis in variant cancer cells. In this study, the effect of va...
Background: Leishmaniasis is one of the major public health problems in many countries. Cantharidin, a type of terpenoid and a potent vesicant found in the Meloidae and Oedemeridae beetle families, has been used to treat wart in traditional medicine. This study was carried out to examine the cytotoxic effect of cantharidin on the survival of promas...
Background: Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is a single strand and non-enveloped RNA virus. It is usually transmitted by the fe-cal-oral and the blood transfusion routes and causes the hepatitis A disease. Clinically, the hepatitis A is usually mild, par-ticularly in children, in whom it is frequently subclinical. The disease is more serious and prolonged...
Background and purpose: Leishmania is flagellated protozoa and causative agent of leishmaniosis that is most public health problem in some countries especially developing countries. Cantharidin is terpenoid component that exist in Meloidae and Oedomeridae beetles. Cantharidin is vesicant. It can induce apoptosis in cancerous cells. This study was p...
Background: Acanthamoeba is free-living amoeba that is found in soil, water, air as well as in pharynx of human. It is the causative agent of amoebic keratitis in people who use contact lens. In the present study, the effects of propamidine isethionate and polymyxin B on acanthamoeba isolated from patients infected with acanthamoeba keratitis in He...
Introduction & Objective: Acanthamoeba is free-living amoeba that is found in soil, water, air as well as in human pharynx. Acanthamoeba is causative agent of granulomatose amoebic encephalitis (GAE) in immunosuppressed and AIDS individuals and amoebic keratitis in people who use the lens. Pathogenic species of Acanthamoeba have protein receptors n...
Background: Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is a single strand and non-enveloped RNA virus. It is usually transmitted by the fe-cal-oral and the blood transfusion routes and causes the hepatitis A disease. Clinically, the hepatitis A is usually mild, particularly in children, in whom it is frequently subclinical. The disease is more serious and prolonged i...
