ArticleJournal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology2014
Emergence of a new focus of visceral leishmaniasis due to Leishmania infantum in Golestan Province, north-eastern of Iran.
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- Visceral leishmaniasis in leukemia patients, a great neglected disease in endemic countries: report of a retrospective study and systematic literature review.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Pooled it
- The Geographical Distribution of Human Cutaneous and VisceralFrontiers in public health · 2021Pooled it
- Domestic dogs carriers of Leishmania infantum, Leishmania tropica and Crithidia fasciculata as potential reservoirs for human visceral leishmaniasis in northeastern Iran.Veterinary medicine and science · 2022Article
- A Convenient and Sensitive kDNA-PCR for Screening of Leishmania infantum Latent Infection Among Blood Donors in a Highly Endemic Focus, Northwestern Iran.Acta parasitologica · 2022Article
- Leishmania tropica and Leishmania infantum infection in dogs and cats in central Israel.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- The Granger causality analysis of the impact of climatic factors on visceral leishmaniasis in northwestern Iran in 1995-2019.Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2021Article
- Distribution ofIranian journal of public health · 2020Review
- Laboratory Diagnosis of Cutaneous and Visceral Leishmaniasis: Current and Future Methods.Microorganisms · 2020Review
- Investigation of Visceral Leishmaniasis among 192 Dog Carcasses Killed by Road Accidents in Khorasan Razavi, Northeastern Iran during 2014-2016.Iranian journal of public health · 2018Article
- Visceral Leishmaniasis in Southeastern Iran: A Narrative Review.Iranian journal of parasitologyReview
- Seroprevalence of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Children Up To 12 Years Old of Rural Areas from Kermanshah Province, Western Part of Iran.Iranian journal of parasitologyArticle
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Abstract
Over the last decade, a few cases of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) have been reported in some districts of the province of Golestan, in north-eastern Iran. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of Leishmania infantum infection among humans and domestic dogs by using direct agglutination test (DAT) and PCR assays in the eastern zone of the province. Between 2011 and 2012, blood samples were randomly collected from 450 humans and 50 domestic dogs, in the eastern zone of Golestan Province including 7 villages from Marave-tappeh district where new cases of human VL had been recorded there. Each of these samples was tested for anti-Leishmania antibodies, in DAT, and for L. infantum kinetoplast DNA on whole blood, in PCR-based assays. A total of 450 human samples, 6 (1.33 %) were found seropositive and 13 (2.8 %) was found PCR-positive. Of the 50 dog samples, 16 (32 %) were found seropositive and 15 (30 %) were PCR-positive. All PCR-positive dogs were found seropositive except one as well as 6 (46.2 %) PCR-positive humans were also found seropositive. Moreover, the species of L. infantum was detected in all PCR-positive samples. The high prevalence of VL in the study areas offer it has emerged as an endemic focus in the province. Further investigations on the vectors, reservoirs and human population are recommended.
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