First Report of Natural Infection of to and in the Endemic Foci of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Iran.

Background: The primary aim of this study is to determine infection to parasites in the wild population of and using molecular methods in some important zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis foci in Iran.

Methods: Sand flies were collected from active colonies of rodent burrows from 16 trapping sites using sticky trap paper. In order to detect and identify of parasites in females and the Nested-PCR amplification of ITS2-rDNA region was performed to generate amplicon with 245bp for , 206bp for and 141bp for .

First survey of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on cattle, sheep and goats in Boeen Zahra and Takistan counties, Iran.

Objective: To carry out the distribution survey of hard ticks of livestock in Boeen Zahra and Takistan counties of Qazvin province from April 2010 to September 2010.

Methods: Nearly about 2 638 sheep, 461 goats and 318 cattle of 38 herds in different geographical areas were searched for tick infestation.

Results: The species compositions collected from the livestock of Boeen Zahra and Takistan were Haemaphysalis concinna (0.