Search Results - "Amir Ahmad Akhavan"

Susceptibility of Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae) against DDT and Deltamethrin in an Endemic Focus of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Iran by Azarm, Amrollah, Vatandoost, Hassan, Koosha, Mona, Ahmad Akhavan, Amir, Mohebali, Mehdi, Saeidi, Zahra, Dehghan, Awat, Ali Oshaghi, Mohammad

“…(Diptera: Psychodidae) is the main vector of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) in Iran. The nonstandard use of pesticides against pests, particularly in…”
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Richness and Diversity of Phlebotomine Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in North Khorasan Province, Northeast of Iran by Arzamani, Kourosh, Vatandoost, Hassan, Rassi, Yavar, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Abai, Mohammad Reza, Alavinia, Mohammad, Akbarzadeh, Kamran, Mohebali, Mehdi, Rafizadeh, Sayena

“…We aimed to determine the species composition, richness and diversity indices of the Phlebotomine sand flies at different topographic condition in visceral…”
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Designing and Introducing a New Artificial Feeding Apparatus for Sand Fly Rearing by Fatemi, Mahboubeh, Saeidi, Zahra, Noruzian, Parviz, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad

“…Due to strict ethical rules, the risk of accidental disease transmission and the most importantly, inconvenience regarding using of live animals, artificial…”
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Evaluation of Different Attractive Traps for Capturing Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in an Endemic Area of Leishmaniasis, Southeast of Iran by Yousefi, Saideh, Zahraei-Ramazani, Ali Reza, Rassi, Yavar, Vatandoost, Hassan, Yaghoobi-Ershadi, Mohammad Reza, Aflatoonian, Mohammad Reza, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Aghaei-Afshar, Abbas, Amin, Masoumeh, Paksa, Azim

“…The attraction of phlebotomine sand flies to plant and animal hosts is due to the produced chemical compounds, affecting the olfactory receptors of the…”
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Baseline susceptibility of a wild strain of Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae) to DDT and pyrethroids in an endemic focus of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran by Saeidi, Zahra, Vatandoost, Hassan, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Yaghoobi-Ershadi, Mohamad Reza, Rassi, Yavar, Sheikh, Zahra, Arandian, Mohamad Hossein, Jafari, Reza, Sanei Dehkordi, Ali Reza

“…BACKGROUND: Phelebotumus papatsi is considered to be the main vector of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis as well as sand fly fever in Iran. There are several…”
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Rodents as vehicle for delivery of transgenic bacteria to make paratransgenic sand fly vectors of cutaneous leishmaniasis in field condition by Ghassemi, Marzieh, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Zahraei-Ramazani, Alireza, Yakhchali, Bagher, Arandian, Mohammad Hossein, Jafari, Reza, Akhlaghi, Maryam, Shirani-Bidabadi, Leila, Azam, Kamal, Koosha, Mona, Oshaghi, Mohammad Ali

“…Vector-borne diseases, among them leishmaniasis, cause more than 700,000 deaths annually. The lack of an effective vaccination and the increasing resistance of…”
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Climate change and its effect on the vulnerability to zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran by Charrahy, Zabihollah, Yaghoobi‐Ershadi, Mohammad Reza, Shirzadi, Mohammad Reza, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Rassi, Yavar, Hosseini, Seyedeh Zohreh, Webb, Nathaniel J., Haque, Ubydul, Bozorg Omid, Faramarz, Hanafi‐Bojd, Ahmad Ali

“…Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) is an important vector‐borne disease with an incidence of 15.8 cases per 100,000 people in Iran in 2019. Despite all…”
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Predicting the Distribution of Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae), the Primary Vector of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, in Golestan Province of Iran Using Ecological Niche Modeling: Comparison of MaxEnt and GARP Models by Sofizadeh, Aioub, Rassi, Yavar, Vatandoost, Hassan, Hanafi-Bojd, Ahmad Ali, Mollalo, Abolfazl, Rafizadeh, Sayena, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad

“…Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) is a prevalent vector-borne disease in the Golestan province of Iran, with Phlebotomus papatasi (Scopoli, 1786) serving…”
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Risk Mapping and Situational Analysis of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in an Endemic Area of Central Iran: A GIS-Based Survey by Abedi-Astaneh, Fatemeh, Hajjaran, Homa, Yaghoobi-Ershadi, Mohammad Reza, Hanafi-Bojd, Ahmad Ali, Mohebali, Mehdi, Shirzadi, Mohammad Reza, Rassi, Yavar, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Mahmoudi, Bagher

“…Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is among the top 10 infectious disease priorities in the world, and the leading cause of morbidity in Iran. The present study was…”
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Predicting current and future high-risk areas for vectors and reservoirs of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran by Bozorg-Omid, Faramarz, Kafash, Anooshe, Jafari, Reza, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Rahimi, Mohammad, Rahimi Foroushani, Abbas, Youssefi, Fahimeh, Shirzadi, Mohammad Reza, Ostadtaghizadeh, Abbas, Hanafi-Bojd, Ahmad Ali

“…Climate change will affect the distribution of species in the future. To determine the vulnerable areas relating to CL in Iran, we applied two models, MaxEnt…”
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Neutrophil extracellular traps formation: effect of Leishmania major promastigotes and salivary gland homogenates of Phlebotomus papatasi in human neutrophil culture by Firouzjaie, Fahimeh, Taghipour, Niloofar, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Seyyed Tabaei, Seyyed Javad, Rouhani, Soheila, Shirazian, Maryam, Koochaki, Ameneh, Fatemi, Mahboubeh, Mosaffa, Nariman, Moin Vaziri, Vahideh

“…Leishmaniasis as a neglected tropical disease (NTD) is caused by the inoculation of Leishmania parasites via the bite of phlebotomine sand flies. After an…”
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The therapeutic effect of larval saliva and hemolymph of Lucilia sericata on the treatment of Leishmania major lesion in BALB/c mice946 by Rahimi, Sara, Rafinejad, Javad, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Ahmadkhaniha, Reza, Bakhtiyari, Mahmood, Khamesipour, Ali, Akbarzadeh, Kamran

“…Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) remains a major challenge for the public health and medical community. It has been claimed that natural compounds…”
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The leishmanicidal effect of Lucilia sericata larval saliva and hemolymph on in vitro Leishmania tropica by Rahimi, Sara, Khamesipour, Ali, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Rafinejad, Javad, Ahmadkhaniha, Reza, Bakhtiyari, Mahmood, Veysi, Arshad, Akbarzadeh, Kamran

“…Leishmaniasis is a major parasitic disease worldwide, except in Australia and Antarctica, and it poses a significant public health problem. Due to the absence…”
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Molecular and Biochemical Detection of Insecticide Resistance in the Leishmania Vector, Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae) to Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and Pyrethroids, in Central Iran by Shirani-Bidabadi, Leila, Oshaghi, Mohammad Ali, Enayati, Ahmad Ali, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Zahraei-Ramazani, Ali Reza, Yaghoobi-Ershadi, Mohammad Reza, Rassi, Yavar, Aghaei-Afshar, Abass, Koosha, Mona, Arandian, Mohammad Hossein, Ghanei, Maryam, Ghassemi, Marzieh, Vatandoost, Hassan

“…The aim of the present study was to explore resistance markers and possible biochemical resistance mechanisms in the Phlebotomine sand fly Phlebotomus papatasi…”
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Spatial Distribution of Phlebotomine Sand Fly Species (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Qom Province, Central Iran by Saghafipour, Abedin, Vatandoost, Hassan, Zahraei-Ramazani, Ali Reza, Yaghoobi-Ershadi, Mohammad Reza, Rassi, Yavar, Shirzadi, Mohammad Reza, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad

“…Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) is transmitted to humans by phlebotomine sand fly bites. ZCL is a major health problem in Iran, where basic knowledge…”
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Assessing Survival of Transgenic Bacteria, Serratia AS1 and Enterobacter cloacae , in Sugar Bait, White Saxaul Plant ( Haloxylon persicum ) and Rodent Barrow's Soil, A Contained-Field Study for Paratransgenesis Approach by Ghassemi, Marzieh, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Zahraei-Ramezani, Alireza, Yakhchali, Bagher, Zarean, Mohammad Reza, Jafari, Reza, Oshaghi, Mohammad Ali

“…The viability and persistence of engineered bacterium candidates in field conditions is one of the considerable challenges in the paratransgenesis approach to…”
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Aerobic bacterial flora of biotic and abiotic compartments of a hyperendemic Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ZCL) focus by Maleki-Ravasan, Naseh, Oshaghi, Mohammad Ali, Afshar, Davoud, Arandian, Mohammad Hossein, Hajikhani, Sara, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Yakhchali, Bagher, Shirazi, Mohammad Hasan, Rassi, Yavar, Jafari, Reza, Aminian, Koorosh, Fazeli-Varzaneh, Reza Ali, Durvasula, Ravi

“…BACKGROUND: Identification of the microflora of the sand fly gut and the environmental distribution of these bacteria are important components for…”
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In Vitro Assessment of the Anti-Proliferative and Anti-Viability Effects of Salivary Gland Extracts from Hyalomma ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on Human Colorectal Cancer Cells by Tavassoli, Maryam, Kadivar, Mehdi, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Abdigoudarzi, Mohammad, Moridnia, Abbas, Chaibakhsh, Samira, Beikmohammadi, Mojtaba, Mehdi Sedaghat, Mohammad

“…The saliva and salivary glands of ticks possess a wide range of immuno-pharmacologically active molecules that effectively modulate the activity of enzymes,…”
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Control of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis vector, Phlebotomus papatasi, using attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSB) by Saghafipour, Abedin, Vatandoost, Hassan, Zahraei-Ramazani, Ali Reza, Yaghoobi-Ershadi, Mohammad Reza, Rassi, Yavar, Karami Jooshin, Moharram, Shirzadi, Mohammad Reza, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad

“…Attractive Toxic Sugar Baits (ATSB) is a new vector control method that meets Integrated Vector Management (IVM) goals. In an experimental design, this study…”
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Correction to: The leishmanicidal efect of Lucilia sericata larval saliva and hemolymph on in vitro Leishmania tropica by Rahimi, Sara, Khamesipour, Ali, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad, Rafnejad, Javad, Ahmadkhaniha, Reza, Bakhtiyari, Mahmood, Veysi, Arshad, Akbarzadeh, Kamran

“…An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article…”
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