Curriculum Vitae 

 

 

Name: Norair Piazak 

Sex: Male 

Date & place of birth: Oct. 1952 Kermanshah  

Marital statue: Married 

Home address: No.2  Shakiba Alley Bahar Ave. 

Professional address: Parasitology Dept. Pasteur Institute of Iran 

E-mail: Piazak@Institute.Pasteur.ac.ir
                   Piazak@Yahoo.com

 Position 

Chief of Medical Entomology Lab.

 

Qualification 

B.S (Biology) 1975 

M.S.P.H. (Medical Entomology) 1991 

Ph. D. (Medical Entomology) 2000

 

Research interests 

Acarology (Biology, Systematic, Ecology)

Training courses 

Workshop on primary health care (P.H.C) 

Workshop on methodology of research 

The diagnosis of mange in domestic animals

 

Research experiences and skills

Preliminary studies on presence of Lyme in Iran throught the study of Ixodes ricinus populations 

A faunestic study on medically imoprtant ticks and their association with tick-born disease with emphasison ecology of Ornithodoros tartakovskyi

in Sarakhs area,Khorassan province Iran 

A survey of geographical distribution of various tick species in Iran

 

Publication

 

J.M. Klein, P. Sureau, J.Casals, N.Piazak, C. Korouri, M.A. Calvo (1979):

Isolement du virus Quaranfil en Iran a' partir de tiques Argas vulgaris.

Cah. O.R.S.T.O.M., se'r. Ent. me'd. et Parasitol.  vol. XVII, no.3

 P. Sureau , J.M. Klein, J. Casals, J.P. Digoutte, J.J. Salaun, N. Piazak et

M.A. Calvo (1980): Isolement des virus Thogoto, Wad Medani, Wanowrie et  de  la  fie'ver hemorragique de Crimee-Congo en Iran  a' partir de tiques  d'animaux domestiques. Ann. Virol. (Inst. Pasteur), 131 E.

 M. Asmar, N. Piazak, Y. Karimi (1980): Pictorial key's of fleas Iran.

Inst. Pasteur. Publication. Iran

Y. Karimi, N. Piazak, M. Asmar (1980): New method for eradication of tick-born relapsing fever.

The  J. Iranian Med. Council  vol. 7, no.5                       

 N. Piazak, M. Asmar, Y. Karimi (1984): First report on the occurrence of  Stenoponia tripectinata spinellosa Jordan 195(Siphonaptera:Stenoponiinae) J.Ent. Soc. Iran  vol. 7 (1,2)

M. Asmar, N. Piazak (1985): Study on sensitivity of  Argasidae  ticks (Argasidae: Ornithodorus) to the insectisides 75%  D.D.T,  Alon (25%Lindane), and 100%  Lindane in Eastern Azarbaijan. The J.Inst. Pasteur. Iran  no.1

 M. Asmar, N. Piazak, M. Kheirollahzadeh (1985): Control of wild rodent flea using the systemic insectiside Seven (Carbaryl) in the plague foci of Kordestan. The J.Inst. Pasteur. Iran  no.2

 M. Asmar, N. Piazak, M. Kheirollahzadeh, M. Hanifi (1987): A study of the pathogenicity of  Trypanosoma Lewisi in the laboratory animals

The  J.Inst. Pasteur. Iran  no.3

 M. Asmar, F. Soleimanloo, N. Piazak (1987): Biological control of mosqitoes by Lagenidium giganteum. The J.Inst. Pasreur. Iran  no.3

 N. Hoghooghi-rad, Sh. Farazi, N. Piazak (1996): Identification of  Bovine Ixodidae species in Ahwaz area, Iran. Iranian J. Publ. Health  vol. 25

 M. Salimi, M. Asmar, N. Piazak (1996): The fauna of  Argasidae and the role of Ornithodoros relapsing fever in some viliages of the central province of Iran. Iranian J. Publ. Health  vol. 25

 

H. Nekoui, M. Asmar, A. Amirkhani, N. Piazak (1999): Distribution of ticks and their association with Borrelia in Semnan province. Iranian J. Publ. Health  vol. 28

 

M.A. Seyedi Rashti, Z. Sahabi, M. Mohebali, N.Piazak, A.Zahraii Ramazani A.A. Akhavan (1999): Arthropods of medical importance in Sarakhs free zone for preparation of control program, sand-files and cutaneous leishmaniosis.     

Hakim Res. J. Iran  vol. 2,  no.3 

N. Piazak, M.A. Seyedi Rashti, M. Asmar (2000): A survey of prevalence of  Ornithodoros tartakovski and it's infection rate with Borrelia latychevi in Sarakhs county, Khorassan  province.

Iranian J. Publ. Health  vol. 29  

M.R. Yaghoobi-Ershadi, J. Namazi, N. Piazak (2001): Bionomics of  Anopheles sacharovi in Ardebil province, northwestern Iran during  a larval control program. Acta Tropica  78   

M. Asmar, M. Soleimani, F. Oreizi, N. Piazak, S.M. Hossini, R. Saghiri and

Z. Zamani (2002): Purification of periplasmic flagellar Antigen from  Borrelia microtti. Scand. J. Infect. Dis.  34 

M. Asmar, M. Soleimani, N. Piazak, F. Oreizi, S.H. Hosseini, Z.Zamani (2002): Preparation of a new medium for in vitro culture of Borrelia microtti and Borrelia Persica. MJIRI  vol. 15,  no.4 

M.B. Ghavami, M. Asmar, N. Piazak (2002): Epidemiology of Tick-Borne relapsing fever in Zanjan city (1991-1998). J.Zanjan University. Med. Sci.  & Health. Ser.  no. 37

 

Seminars and conferences

Ninth International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA IX)

Makuhari, Japan (1998) 

Seyedi Rashti, M.A., Piazak, N.

Studies on sand-flies in a focus of zoonotic cutaneous leishmanosis

in Sarakhs, Iran 

Parvizi, P., Javadian,E., Yaghoobi-Ershadi, M.R., Amirkhani,A., Piazak, N.

A Study on vectors of cutaneous leishmaniosis in Turkemensahra area, Iran 

Parvizi, P., Asmar, M., Piazak, N., Nekoui, H., Amirkhani, A., Naddaf, S.

An investigation on distribution of borrelia transmitting ticks in Dasht Gorgan and Turkemensahra, Iran  

 

Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting 2002, Thailand

 

Asmar, M., Terhovanessian, A., Nahrevanian, H., Amirkhani, A., Piazak, N.,

Esmaeili, A. R., Farahmand, M., Zare, M.

Molecular  epideimology of malaria disease in endemic areas of Iran

 

VII International Potsdam Symposium on Tick-Borne Diseases

Berlin (Germany), 2003

 

Vatandoost, H., Gkaderi, A., Javadian, E., Zahirnia, A.H., Rassi,Y.,

Piazak, N., Kia, E. B., Shaeghi, M.

Distribution of soft ticks and their infection with Borrelia in Hamadan province, Iran

 

Membership of scientific societies

 

Societas Entomologica Iranica