Nourani Leila, Aliabadian Mansour, Dinparast-Djadid Navid, Mirshamsi Omid
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Research Department of Zoological Innovations, Institute of Applied Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
J Arthropod Borne Dis. 2017 May 27;11(2):236-241. eCollection 2017 Jun.
The intracellular protozoan parasites of the genus occur in different avian hosts all over the world. Various genus of blood sucking insects' families such as Hippoboscidae and Ceratopogonidae could transmit in avian hosts. There are very limited number of studies on wild infected birds with blood parasites in Iran, so the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of spp. infection in passerine birds from northwest of Iran.
Passerines were collected from four different localities in Zanjan Province, northwest Iran during June to August 2014.
Of 86 passerines, we found infection in 19 (22.09%) individuals. In general, 15 bird species were observed for haemosporidians, of which 53% were infected.
Three species of passerines: , and are new host records for infection in the world. Results acquired by this study support widespread distribution of in passerines and illustrated the prevalence of species in wild birds of northwest of Iran. Conclusively, our study specified that more investigations are needed to reach exact prevalence rate in different families of birds in Iran.
属的细胞内原生动物寄生虫在世界各地的不同鸟类宿主中均有出现。吸血昆虫科的各种属，如虱蝇科和蠓科，可在鸟类宿主中传播 。伊朗对野生感染血液寄生虫鸟类的研究数量非常有限，因此本研究的目的是确定伊朗西北部雀形目鸟类中 属物种的感染频率。
2014年6月至8月期间，从伊朗西北部赞詹省的四个不同地点收集雀形目鸟类。
在86只雀形目鸟类中，我们发现19只（22.09%）个体感染 。总体而言，共观察到15种鸟类感染血孢子虫，其中53%被感染。
三种雀形目鸟类： 、 和 是世界上 感染的新宿主记录。本研究获得的结果支持 在雀形目鸟类中的广泛分布，并说明了 物种在伊朗西北部野生鸟类中的流行情况。总之，我们的研究表明，需要进行更多调查以确定伊朗不同鸟类科的确切流行率。
