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Fiberoptic Bronchoscopic Findings in Patients Suffering from Emerging Pulmonary Lophomoniasis: A First Registry-Based Clinical Study

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background. Lophomonas blattarum is an emerging protozoan agent that mainly infects the lower respiratory system, causing pulmonary lophomoniasis.
Masoud Aliyali, Amirmasoud Taheri, Mahdi Fakhar, Ali Sharifpour, Maryam Nakhaei, Siavash Abedi, Hossein Mehravaran, Sepideh Safanavaei   +7 more
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Global Status of Emerging Lophomonas Infection: A Systematic Review of Reported Cases (1993—2020)

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2022
Purpose. Lophomonas spp., is an emerging protozoan parasite that belongs to the Parabasalids (Parabasalia, lophomonadida) which infects the respiratory tracts of humans.
Maryam Nakhaei, Mahdi Fakhar, Ali Sharifpour, Hajar Ziaei Hezarjaribi, Elham Sadat Banimostafavi, Eisa Nazar   +5 more
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Molecular Evidence of Emerged Pulmonary Lophomoniasis due to Lophomonas blattarum among Hospitalized Patients in Southwestern Iran: A National Registry-Based Study

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2022
Objectives. Lophomonas protozoan is an emerging pathogen transmitted through arthropods such as cockroaches. Lophomoniasis is still a mysterious disease with many unknown epidemiological aspects.
Kobra Mokhtarian, Simin Taghipour, Maryam Nakhaei, Amirmasoud Taheri, Ali Sharifpour, Mahdi Fakhar, Hajar Ziaei Hezarjaribi   +6 more
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Congenital toxoplasmosis among Iranian neonates: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2019
Toxoplasmosis is a serious zoonotic disease that can lead to abortion and congenital disorders and has a widespread global distribution in humans and animals.
Shahabeddin Sarvi, Tooran Nayeri Chegeni, Mehdi Sharif, Mahbobeh Montazeri, Seyed Abdollah Hosseini, Afsaneh Amouei, Zahra Hosseininejad, Davood Anvari, Reza Saberi, Shaban Gohardehi, Ahmad Daryani   +10 more
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Fatal outcome following multiple bee stings: A rare case

Clinical Case Reports, 2022
Anaphylactic shock is an unexpected, life‐threatening, and sometimes fatal occurrence that affects patients in 75% of instances without a prior history of allergies. The severity of the reaction can vary among individuals.
Mahdi Fakhar, Zakaria Zakariaei, Ali Sharifpour, Mostafa Soleymani, Ashkan Zakariaei   +4 more
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Geospatial analysis and epidemiological aspects of human infections with in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2019
OBJECTIVES Blastocystis hominis is a very common large intestinal protozoan with global prevalence in humans and non-human hosts. No precise statistics exist regarding the geographical distribution of Blastocystis that would enable the identification of ...
Shabnam Asfaram, Ahmad Daryani, Shahabeddin Sarvi, Abdol Sattar Pagheh, Seyed Abdollah Hosseini, Reza Saberi, Seyede Mahboobeh Hoseiny, Masoud Soosaraei, Mehdi Sharif   +8 more
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Post‐COVID‐19 co‐morbidity of emerged Lophomonas infection and invasive pulmonary aspergillosis: First case report

Clinical Case Reports, 2021
Due to long corticosteroid therapy in patients with COVID‐19, in case of cough, dyspnea, and weight loss, emerging pulmonary aspergillosis and lophomoniasis should be ruled out.
Ali Sharifpour, Zakaria Zakariaei, Mahdi Fakhar, Elham Sadat Banimostafavi, Maryam Nakhaei, Mostafa Soleymani   +5 more
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Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients

Clinical Case Reports, 2022
Mucormycosis is a rare, invasive, quickly progressing fungal infection that generally affects patients who are immunocompromised. If left untreated, the disease is characterized by progressive necrosis and is often fatal.
Mahdi Fakhar, Zakaria Zakariaei, Ali Sharifpour, Elham Sadat Banimostafavi, Rostam Pourmousa, Mostafa Soleymani, Maryam Ghasemi   +6 more
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Toxoplasmosis and pregnancy: Reliability of internet sources of information [PDF]

Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2015
Introduction. Health education of women of childbearing age has been shown to be an acceptable approach to the prevention of toxoplasmosis, the most frequent congenitally transmitted parasitic infection. Objective.
Bobić Branko, Štajner Tijana, Nikolić Aleksandra, Klun Ivana, Srbljanović Jelena, Đurković-Đaković Olgica   +5 more
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The global serological prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in felids during the last five decades (1967–2017): a systematic review and meta-analysis

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background Felids (domestic and wild cats) are important in the epidemiology of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii because they are the only hosts that can excrete the environmentally resistant oocysts.
Mahbobeh Montazeri, Tahereh Mikaeili Galeh, Mahmood Moosazadeh, Shahabeddin Sarvi, Samira Dodangeh, Javad Javidnia, Mehdi Sharif, Ahmad Daryani   +7 more
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