The objective of this study was to evaluate, through blood culture and PCR, the results of the ELISA for Chagas’ disease in the screening of blood donors in the public blood-supply network of the state of Paraná, Brazil, and to map the epidemiological profile of the donors with respect to their risk of infection by Trypanosoma cruzi. The negative and positive results of the ELISA were confirmed...

Infection with Toxoplasma gondii is a significant problem in Australian marsupials, and can lead to devastating disease and predispose animals to predation. T. gondii infection in kangaroos is also of public health significance due to the kangaroo meat trade. A moderate seroprevalence of T. gondii was observed in a study of western grey kangaroos located in the Perth metropolitan area in Wester...

BACKGROUND Equine influenza (EI) is a highly contagious respiratory disease of horses. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate two rapid antigen detection kits (Directigen or DFA, and Espline) and a commercial ELISA for the detection of EI nucleoprotein in nasal swabs. METHOD Nasal swab samples from naturally and experimentally infected horses were used to compare the sensitivity a...

chlamydia pneumoniae is a common respiratory pathogen which is often found in our paediatric populations. many patients with community-acquired pneumonia caused by c. pneumoniae have symptoms suggestive of sinusitis.the role of c. pneumonia in rhinosinusiits children (meanage =4.3 ±2.5year). this case control study was done in the pediatric and ent clinics of hazrat rasul hospital in tehran (20...

chicken infectious anaemia is a viral disease in young chickens which characterized by aplastic anaemia and immunosuppression. between january 2004 and july 2005, an unusual hemorrhage in subcutaneous and intramuscular tissues of broiler chickens at slaughter houses of mashhad, isfahan and tehran provinces were occurred. postmortem examination revealed severe hemorrhages in the wings and muscle...

Objetivo. Revelar adenovirus (AdV) que causan pneumonía en ovejas y examinar cambios patológicos los ganglios linfáticos pulmonares mediastínicos de muestras positivas para infectadas forma natural. Material métodos. Se examinaron macroscópicamente 1459 pulmones se detectaron lesiones 88 (6.03%) estas. Las secciones tejido parafinadas estos especímenes con métodos inmunohistoquímicos (IHC) e in...

Goal. Cherry leaf roll virus (CLRV) infects naturally a wide range of herbaceous and woody plants, different species trees, shrubs, horticultural, ornamental, weed plants causes significant economic losses in many hosts countries. CLRV on elderberry was reported Europe, USA, Iran North America. Recently this has been detected sour sweet cherry fruit orchards Ukraine. Testing other than Prunus p...