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Amir Ahmad Akhavan
Researcher at Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Publications - 121
Citations - 2443
Amir Ahmad Akhavan is an academic researcher from Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cutaneous leishmaniasis & Leishmaniasis. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 112 publications receiving 2148 citations. Previous affiliations of Amir Ahmad Akhavan include National Institutes of Health & University of Tehran.
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Characterization of leishmania infection in rodents from endemic areas of the islamic republic of iran
Mehdi Mohebali,E Javadian,Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi,Amir Ahmad Akhavan,Homa Hajjaran,M R Abaei +5 more
TL;DR: Between 1991-2000, Leishmania species were isolated and characterized by isoenzyme and molecular analysis from rodents caught in various parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and parasites were observed in liver and spleen from 13.7% of 504 rodents.
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Epidemiological study in a new focus of cutaneous leishmaniosis due to Leishmania major in Ardestan town, central Iran.
Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi,Ahmad Ali Hanafi-Bojd,Amir Ahmad Akhavan,A. R. Zahrai-Ramazani,Mehdi Mohebali +4 more
TL;DR: An endemic focus of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniosis caused by Leishmania major zymodeme MON-26 was identified in Ardestan town central Iran, during 1998-99, and Phlebotomus papatasi is the vector because about 93% of indoor sandflies were of this species.
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Meriones Iibycus and Rhombomys opimus (Rodentia: Gerbillidae) are the main reservoir hosts in a new focus of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran
TL;DR: This is the first isolation and characterization of L. major from M. libycus in Iran, in an area where ZCL has been present recently and the main reservoir host further east is Rhombomys opimus.
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Epidemiological study in a new focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi,Amir Ahmad Akhavan,A V Zahraei-Ramazani,Mohammad Reza Abai,Babak Ebrahimi,R Vafaei-Nezhad,Ahmad Ali Hanafi-Bojd,Reza Jafari +7 more
TL;DR: An outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Sabzevar county prompted this study of the epidemiology and the ecology of vectors and reservoirs, with R. opimus the main reservoir host, and P. papatasi the main vector.
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Spatial and temporal distributions of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae), vectors of leishmaniasis, in Iran.
Ameneh Karimi,Ahmad Ali Hanafi-Bojd,Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi,Amir Ahmad Akhavan,Zahra Ghezelbash +4 more
TL;DR: The IrSandflybase, the first spatial database of sand flies of Iran, contains different available data covering all aspects of ecology and biology of 50 sand fly species in two genera of Phlebotomus and Sergentomyia in the country.