<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bilal Dik</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ali Halajian</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chewing Lice (Phthiraptera) of Several Species of Wild Birds in Iran, with New Records</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">birds</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Iran</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">lice</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">06/2013</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/68767.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">83-89</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: Although there are about 520 species of birds in Iran, but only some of them have been checked for&amp;nbsp;ectoparasites so far.The aim of this study was to check some more available species of the birds of Iran for lice.&lt;br /&gt;
	&lt;strong&gt;Methods&lt;/strong&gt;: This study was performed between 2008&amp;ndash;2010 in northern Iran. For this purpose we tried to check some&amp;nbsp;of the wild bird species available and mostly not checked before to identify the lice of them.The birds were found in&amp;nbsp;some of the houses of hunters keeping as trap for catching more birds, some of the bird keepers and a few dead birds&amp;nbsp;from taxidermists. In this way we could check 79 birds of 6 species.&lt;br /&gt;
	&lt;strong&gt;Results&lt;/strong&gt;: We identified 11 lice species on the birds and overall 15.2 % of the examined birds were infested by the&amp;nbsp;lice. Nine lice species including Aquanirmus podicipis, Pseudomenopon dolium, Ardeicola sp, Ciconiphilus&amp;nbsp;decimfasciatus; Menacanthus sp, Austromenopon transversum, Pectinopygus gyricornis, Colpocephalum turbinatum&amp;nbsp;and Hohorstiella lata were recorded for the first time on the birds in Iran. One specimen of Menacanthus sp was&amp;nbsp;found on the purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) that is a new host report for this lice.&lt;br /&gt;
	&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;: Although the infection rate was not very high in the birds, but 11 species of lice in 6 studied birds species&amp;nbsp;in this study, shows there are still other lice species that exist in the birds and should be identified and added to&amp;nbsp;Iran lice fauna list.&lt;/p&gt;
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