BACKGROUND There are no peer reviewed data on dog control records from an official agency in Ireland. In order to address this, a total of 2,669 official dog control service records generated during 2007 by Cork County Council dog control service were reviewed. RESULTS Over 70 percent of records related to unwanted dogs and dogs not under their owners control. Stray dogs were collected by the...

BACKGROUND Dirofilaria immitis and Dirofilaria repens are the most common species of filarial nematodes described in the dogs. A single-step multiplex PCR was applied to detect and differentiate simultaneously and unequivocally D. immitis and D. repens on DNA extracted from canine peripheral blood and besides to detect the seroprevalance of D. immitis by ELISA in Elazig Province, Turkey. A PCR ...

Leptospirosis is a reemerging and a complex zoonotic bacterial disease, caused by pathogenic serovars of Leptospira interrogans. A total of 124 sera samples of dogs belonging to different categories like vaccinated, unvaccinated-semiowned, and stray dogs were subjected to sampling. Microscopic agglutination test (MAT) was conducted by using Leptospira culture. Out of 42 vaccinated dogs, 24 (57%...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of ectoparasite infestations in stray dogs in Mazandaran, Gilan and Qazvin Provinces in fall and winter in 2013(December to March). METHODS Seventy dogs in 2013, from these Provinces were examined for ectoparasite infestation and diagnosis of them based on parasitological methods and identification keys was done. RESULT...

background: toxoplasma gondii infects a wide range of animals; felines are definitive hosts and other animals including the dogs are intermediate hosts. the aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of t. gondii infection in dogs in tehran, capital of iran and to investigate possi­ble associated risk factors. m ethods: three hundreds ninety six serum samples were collected during 20...

  In order to determine prevalence of Echinoccocus and other intestinal helminths infection one hundred stray dogs were examined in Mashhad area, Khorasan province of Iran. Helminths were collected from intestinal contents obtained at the time necropsy. Ninety one percent of the dogs were infected by different helminths. The prevalence of Echinococcus granulosus was (22%). Eighteen (81%) of inf...

background: toxocara canis is one of the most frequent small intestinal helminths of dogs with zoonotic importance through which the soil is contaminated with the eggs through the fecal excretion. objectives: this study was carried out to determine t. canis infection in dogs and soil of public parks of piranshahr city using fecal examination. methods: in the present study, a total of 150 feces ...

Leptospirosis is a zoonosis of worldwide distribution, caused by Leptospira interrogans. It is a well known cause of bovine reproductive losses such as abortion, infertility, stillbirth and birth of weak calves. Inthis research, the relationship between the seroprevalence rate of Leptospira spp. infection and abortion inindustrial dairy farms of Hamedan province, Iran was studied. A total of 80...

Echinococcosis is one of the most important dog related zoonotic disease of animals and human (Soulsby, 1982). Infection with the larval forms of Echinococcus granulosus are responsible for considerable economic losses to meat industry because of liver damage in food animals. Whereas adult tapeworms in the gut of infected dog may produce clinical signs. The prevalence of E. granulosus in stray ...