Table 2:
Rapid mass-screening of Leishmania infection in sand flies from endemic foci of Khuzestan province, southwest Iran by LAMP and PCR assays
| Country/Province | Location | Sand fly species | No. examined | Molecular analysis | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iran/Khuzestan | PCR (ITS-rDNA and Cyt b) | LAMP (18s rRNA) | |||||||
| Ph. papatasi | 13 | No. Infected (%) | No. Infected (%) | ||||||
| 0 | 1 (7.7) | ||||||||
| Sarcheshmeh | S. sintoni | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| S. iranica | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| S. baghdadis | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Valayat | Ph. papatasi | 7 | 1(14.2) | 2 (28.5) | |||||
| Ph. alexandri | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Arvan rood | Ph. papatasi | 6 | 0 | 1(16.6) | |||||
| Darkhovin | Ph. papatasi | 10 | 1(10) | 1(0) | |||||
| S. sintoni | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Sheneh | S. baghdadis | 14 | 1(7.1) | 1(7.1) | |||||
| Ph. papatasi | 5 | 0 | 1(20) | ||||||
| Maslavi | Ph .papatasi | 7 | 0 | 1(14.2) | |||||
| Ph. alexandri | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| S. sintoni | 7 | 1(14.2) | 0 | ||||||
| Seyedhasan | Ph. papatasi | 17 | 1(5.8) | 2(11.7) | |||||
| Abadan | Ph. papatasi | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Aboshanak | Ph. alexandri | 7 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Arayez | Ph. papatasi | 8 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Khoramshahr | ph. alexandri | 11 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Ph. papatasi | 9 | 1(11.1) | 0 | ||||||
| Total | 150 | 6 (4.0) | 10(6.6) | ||||||