Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is the causative agent of infectious enteritis called that has a high economic impact on worldwide livestock production. A central important question arises: Can wildlife animals serve as reservoir for transmission MAP to domestic ruminants? With this in mind, we devised study detect various Slovakian species found areas where had been documente...

BACKGROUND Nitric oxide may have a protective effect on the liver during endotoxemia and chronic inflammation. There is evidence that it maintains liver and intestinal tissue integrity during inflammatory processes. We evaluated the impact of altering nitric oxide release on acute liver injury, the associated gut injury and bacterial translocation, at different time intervals. METHODS An acut...

Cross-presentation is a critical process by which antigen is displayed to CD8 T cells to induce tolerance. It is believed that CD8 dendritic cells (DCs) are responsible for cross-presentation, suggesting that the CD8 DC population is capable of inducing both cross-priming and cross-tolerance to antigen. We found that cross-tolerance against intestinal soluble antigen was abrogated in C57BL/6 mi...

A retrospective study covering a period of 10 years (1990-1999) was carried out using post mortem meat inspection records at the Veterinary Department Headquarters at Kabete to determine the prevalence and economic importance of bovine fasciolosis in Kenya. Meat inspection records from abattoirs in 38 districts distributed over seven out of the eight provinces of Kenya were examined. Prevalence...

Disruption of the homeostatic balance of intestinal dendritic cells (DCs) and macrophages (MQs) may contribute to inflammatory bowel disease. We characterized DC and MQ populations, including their ability to produce retinoic acid, in clinical material encompassing Crohn's ileitis, Crohn's colitis and ulcerative colitis (UC) as well as mesenteric lymph nodes (MLNs) draining these sites. Increas...

background and purpose: hydatidosis is one of the most important zoonoses in the world that have public health and economic perspectives. the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of hydatid cysts in slaughtered animals in the industrial slaughterhouse of khomein, markazi province (2007-2011(. materials & methods: in this study was invistigated 28760 head of animals, including 128...