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Seasonal variation of Leishmania major infection rates in sandflies from rodent burrows in Isfahan province, Iran
Author(s) -
YAGHOOBIERSHADI M. R.,
JAVADIAN E.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
medical and veterinary entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2915
pISSN - 0269-283X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2915.1996.tb00726.x
Subject(s) - sandfly , psychodidae , biology , veterinary medicine , leishmania major , phlebotomus , leishmaniasis , vector (molecular biology) , leishmania , cutaneous leishmaniasis , rodent , incidence (geometry) , immunology , ecology , parasite hosting , medicine , biochemistry , world wide web , computer science , gene , recombinant dna , physics , optics
. In preparation for field trials of killed Leishmania major vaccine, natural infections with Leishmania promastigotes were monitored in Phlebotomine sandfly vectors from villages of Borkhar rural district, northeast of Isfahan in central Iran, where Lmajor zymodeme MON‐26 (=LON‐l) has been identified as causing zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL). Sandflies were collected and dissected weekly, from burrows of rodent colonies, during the ‘sandfly season’, June‐October 1991. Leptomonad infection rates were 12% of 26 Phlebotomus ansarii , 8% of 280 P.caucasicus , 11 % of 1042 P.papatasi and none of 126 Sergentomyia sintoni , being greatest during late August through September, coinciding with peak activity of the sandflies, 2–3 months before the highest incidence of ZCL human cases in November‐December.