Urban parasitology: visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil

MO Harhay, PL Olliaro, DL Costa, CHN Costa - Trends in parasitology, 2011 - cell.com
Since the early 1980s, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) which is, in general, a rural zoonotic
disease, has spread to the urban centers of the north, and now the south and west of Brazil …

Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Iran and their role on Leishmania transmission

MR Yaghoobi-Ershadi - Journal of arthropod-borne diseases, 2012 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sand fly research has a long history in Iran beginning with the work of Adler, Theodor and
Lourie in 1930 and followed by Mesghali's foundational taxonomic work on sand flies in …

CD73; a key ectonucleotidase in the development of breast cancer: Recent advances and perspectives

A Soleimani, E Taghizadeh… - Journal of cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Tumor cell invasion and metastasis are the definitive cause of mortality in breast cancer
(BC). Hypoxia and pro‐inflammatory cytokines upregulate the CD73 gene in the tumor …

Geographic information system‐based analysis of the spatial and spatio‐temporal distribution of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Golestan Province, north‐east of …

A Mollalo, A Alimohammadi… - Zoonoses and public …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL), a vector‐borne disease, poses serious
psychological as well as social and economic burden to many rural areas of I ran. The main …

Spatial and temporal distributions of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae), vectors of leishmaniasis, in Iran

A Karimi, AA Hanafi-Bojd, MR Yaghoobi-Ershadi… - Acta tropica, 2014 - Elsevier
Leishmaniasis is a major vector-borne disease and health problem in Iran. Studies on sand
flies, as the vectors of the disease, began in the Northern and Western parts of the country in …

Canine visceral leishmaniasis in an urban setting of Southeastern Brazil: an ecological study involving spatial analysis

RG Teixeira-Neto, ES da Silva, RA Nascimento… - Parasites & vectors, 2014 - Springer
Background The physical characteristics of the environment influence the composition,
distribution and behavior of the vectors and mammalian hosts involved in the transmission of …

Modeling the distribution of cutaneous leishmaniasis vectors (Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in Iran: a potential transmission in disease prone areas

A Ali Hanafi-Bojd, MR Yaghoobi-Ershadi… - Journal of medical …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is now the main vector-borne disease in Iran. Two forms of
the disease exist in the country, transmitted by Phlebotomus papatasi and Phlebotomus …

Environmental risk factors for the incidence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in an endemic area of Iran: A GIS-based approach

R Ramezankhani, A Hosseini, N Sajjadi… - Spatial and spatio …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives This study was designed to determine the environmental factors associated with
cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Isfahan Province, using spatial analysis. Methods Data of …