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Rodent-borne and rodent-related diseases in Iran

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Rodents cause large financial losses all over the world; in addition, these animals can also act as a reservoir and intermediate host or vector of diseases. Rodents have an important role in the distribution of diseases in an area. Sometimes, the distribution of a particular disease in an area depends on the distribution of rodents in that area. This study focuses on the distribution of rodent-related diseases in Iran. Rodent-borne and rodent-related diseases and diseases with suspected relationship with rodents have been reviewed in this study. Iran, due to the circumstances in which different species of rodents are able to live, has a high prevalence of certain diseases associated with rodents in urban and rural areas. Awareness about the distribution of rodent-related diseases can be a great help to rodent’s control and prevention against the spread of the diseases.

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The authors wish to thank Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences for their support to do, progress, and complete this research.

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  1. Department of Environmental Health, School of Health, Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran

    Vahid Kazemi-Moghaddam

  2. Social Determinants of Health (SDH) Research Center and Department of Environmental Health, School of Health, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran

    Rouhullah Dehghani

  3. Department of Environmental Health, School of Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Mostafa Hadei

  4. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Samaneh Dehqan

  5. Department of Medical Entomology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat

  6. Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran

    Milad Latifi

  7. Students Research Committee, Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran

    Shamim Alavi-Moghaddam

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Besides the high spread of rodents in the world, warmer climates increase their population.

Rodents have an important role in the transmission of a number of diseases to humans such as tularemia, leishmaniasis, and Q fever.

Because of warm weather and climate, Iran is located in a middle high-risk area of rodent-related diseases.

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Kazemi-Moghaddam, V., Dehghani, R., Hadei, M. et al. Rodent-borne and rodent-related diseases in Iran. Comp Clin Pathol 28, 893–905 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00580-018-2690-9

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