View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector Asian Pac J Trop Biomed 2014; 4(Suppl 1): S139-S142 S139 Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine journal homepage: www.apjtb.com Document heading doi:10.12980/APJTB.4.2014C1223 2014 by the Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine. All rights reserved. 襃 Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842), a new host of Contracaecum sp. and Capillaria sp. (Nematoda) from the Kor River Basin, southwestern Iran 1 2 3 4 3 Zeinab Gholami , Mohammad Taghi Rahimi , Eshrat Beigom Kia , Hamid Reza Esmaeili , Iraj Mobedi * 1Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology & GeoBio-Center LMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Richard- Wagner-Strasse10, Munich, Germany 2Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Science, Sari, Iran 3Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4Department of Biology, College of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran PEER REVIEW ABSTRACT Peer reviewer Objective: Capoeta damascina To investigate the parasitic infection status of cyprinid fish, in Mahdi Darvishi, Department of GMethods:omban spring-stream, Kor River Basin, Fars Province, southwestern Iran. pathology, veterinary faculty, Semnan, A total of 12 cyprinid fish (7 females and 5 males) were collected from Gomban spring- Iran. stream, Kor River Basin, Fars Province, southwestern Iran. The collected fish were dissected Tel: +9809192761319 carefully and their internal organs such as liver, gonad, muscle, abdominal lobes, whole viscera Fax: +982732571 andResults: digestive tract were surveyed parasitologically. 12 E-mail:
[email protected] One female cyprinid fish Contracaecumout of fish was infected with three nematodes.