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More than half (54%) of the new zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) cases among the Eastern Mediterranean countries were reported from Iran in 2008. The detection of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Leishmania<\/jats:italic>\n                    parasites in rodents is essential to incriminate them as probable reservoir hosts of ZCL infection. As a result of the annual detection of about 200\u2013250 clinical ZCL cases in the Jask district of southern Iran, feral rodents were trapped, identified to species level, and examined for\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Leishmania<\/jats:italic>\n                    presence by preparing routine blood smears on microscopic slides from 2007 to 2008. Overall, 27\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Tatera indica<\/jats:italic>\n                    , 17\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Gerbillus nanus,<\/jats:italic>\n                    29\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Meriones persicus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , 26\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">M<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">hurrianae,<\/jats:italic>\n                    and 7\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">M<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">libycus<\/jats:italic>\n                    were identified. Females of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">T<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">indica, M<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">hurrianae,<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">G<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">nanus<\/jats:italic>\n                    appeared to be naturally infected with the protozoan parasite,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">L<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">major<\/jats:italic>\n                    . This is the first report of microscopic and molecular detection of this trypanosomatid parasite infecting these three rodents reported from Hormozgan province in southeast Iran. More than three-quarters (82%) of the parasite-infected rodents came from the eastern plain of this province, but none of the other rodents were found to be smear-positive or kinetoplast DNA-positive by PCR.\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">M<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">hurrianae, G<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">nanus,<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">T. indica<\/jats:italic>\n                    are therefore incriminated as three potential reservoir hosts of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">L<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">major<\/jats:italic>\n                    in Oriental parts of Iran.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1089\/vbz.2011.0872","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,5,31]],"date-time":"2012-05-31T15:32:34Z","timestamp":1338478354000},"page":"844-850","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Molecular Detection of\n                    <i>Leishmania major<\/i>\n                    kDNA from Wild Rodents in a New Focus of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in an Oriental Region of Iran"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Kourosh","family":"Azizi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Shiraz University of Medical Sciences","place":["Iran"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mohammad Djaefar","family":"Moemenbellah-Fard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shiraz University of Medical Sciences","place":["Iran"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mohsen","family":"Kalantari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shiraz University of Medical Sciences","place":["Iran"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mohammad Reza","family":"Fakoorziba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shiraz University of Medical Sciences","place":["Iran"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,10,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_1","first-page":"7","article-title":"Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Shiraz, southern Iran: a molecular, isoenzyme and morphologic approach","volume":"12","author":"Asgari Q","year":"2006","unstructured":"Asgari Q, , Motazedian MH, , Mehrabani D et al. 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