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18318934

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-3-5
pubmed:abstractText
The incidence of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL), which is endemic in several parts of Iran, has recently increased in the rural areas of the northern district of Damghan, in Semnan province. Between 2001 and 2004, as part of an investigation of this worrying trend, wild rodents in this region were caught and checked, by the microscopical examination of liver and spleen smears, for leishmanial infection, to see which species were acting as 'reservoir' hosts. Overall 298 Nesokia indica, 29 Meriones libycus, 10 Mus musculus and two Microtus socialis were caught. Most of the N. indica (61%) and Me. libycus (52%) but none of the other rodents were found smear-positive for leishmanial amastigotes. When PCR was used to test scrapings from 50 of the smears (of which 25 had been found to harbour amastigotes, by microscopy), 29 (58%) of the smears were found positive for the kinetoplast DNA of Leishmania major; none was found positive for any other Leishmania species. Nesokia indica and Me. libycus are therefore incriminated as the main 'reservoir' hosts of L. major in Damghan.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0003-4983
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
102
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
127-33
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-5-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Rodent infection with Leishmania in a new focus of human cutaneous leishmaniasis, in northern Iran.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. behrad46@yahoo.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Multicenter Study