Abstract Assessment of annual effective dose due to inhalation (Dinh) and ingestion (Ding) radon from 43 groundwater samples at Kantharawichai District, Maha Sarakham Province using Radon Gas Monitor ATMOS 12 DPX. The results were as follows: 1. concentrations ranged 1.04 – 21.87 Bq/L with a mean 8.26±3.77 Bq/L, 2. Dinh 2.60 54.69 μSv/y 20.70±9.40 μSv/y. Ding 0.19 3.94 1.50±0.70 μSv/y, 3. on or...

leptospirosis is one of the zoonotic diseases caused by different serovars of the species leptospira interrogans .  the source of infection in humans is usually either direct or indirect contact with the urine of infected animals.  in this study, 400 human blood samples collected from tribal areas of farsan and koohrang cities in west centeral iran.  the serum samples were analyzed employing mi...

Background: Rotavirus infection is one of the most common gastroenteritis in the world, and a million cases are registered to enter hospital every year. Promyelocytic leukemia proteins (PMLs) are IFN-up-regulated proteins, and one of their critical functions is working as antiviral proteins. Recently, promyelocytic leukemia isoform II (PML-II) has been depicted as an isoform responsible for the...

BACKGROUND: The plerocercoid stage of Pseudophyllideancestoda infected a wide range of fresh water fish,particularly the members of the Cyprinidae family. The parasitespecies are the most common pathogens that have severe effectson fish. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study is todetermine the occurrence and distribution of the plerocercoid ofDiphyllobothriidae in two freshwater fish from no...

in order to determine the efficacy of agrisept tablets as a postmilking teat dip 30 holstein cows, at 2 months after parturition were included. subclinical mastitis was determined by analyzing the degrees of shirazma in milk samples at the beginning and the end of the first, second, third and fourth weeks of the study. bacterial culture samples were obtained from milk of all the infected quarte...

Peanuts (Arachis hypogea L.) are important substrates for the growth and subsequent aflatoxin production by different members of Aspergillus. The aims of the current study were to identify the toxigenic fungi associated with peanut and to study the effect of ozone gaseous (O3) on fungal spoilage and aflatoxin concentration in peanuts. Peanut samples were collected from three Egyptian governorat...

abstract: subgroup j avian leukosis virus (alv-j) was isolated in the late 1980s from meat-type chickens in the united kingdom. alv-j with exception of some acute variants, cause myeloid leukosis in meat-type chickens with long incubation period.in this study while the status of avian leukosis virus subgroup j in six different strain of broiler grandparent flocks of iran evaluated, the evaluati...

b ackground: in this study the concentration of lysozyme in blood plasma of  microtus agrestis, clethrinomys glareolus , apodemus sylvaticus, bk rats and outbred white mice before and after infection with culture forms of trypanosoma microti, t, evotomys, t. grosi, t. lewisi and t. musculi respectively was measured. m ethods: blood samples of rodents, microtus agrestis, clethrionomys glareolus,...

in survey of infected samples to downy mildew of broadbean, chenopodium murale and rumex chalpensis using olympus microscope (bh2) and valid keys and recently published papers, two species were identified (choi et al. 2009, ershad 2009, telle & thines 2012).