In Honor of Dr. Mehdi Assmar, a Distinguished Researcher at the Pasteur Institute of Iran

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Ph.D. student, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

2 Ph.D., Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

3 Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Dr. Mehdi Assmar is a prominent researcher in Iran, with a specialization in parasitology and medical entomology, who has done a large amount of research related to the public health in Pasteur Institute of Iran and other institutions or universities for four decades. Most of his research has been on plague, recurrent fever, malaria, toxoplasmosis and leishmaniasis. Discovering the cause of resistance to plague infection among the rodents of the Kurdistan region is one of his important achievements. During his research, he found the extent of plague in the studied areas, the frequency of wild rodents and their external and internal parasites, the susceptibility of different strains of plague strains to antibiotics, and the effectiveness of systemic toxins in controlling the rodent fleas.
This paper provides an overview of his scientific activities.

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Journal of Research on History of Medicine
Volume 10, Issue 2
May 2021
Pages 81-94

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