Wattle is of utmost ornamental importance for courting potential mates and influencing thermoregulatory mechanisms which help the animal adapt to environment. It also provides information on relationship between haematological serum biochemical parameters. A study haematology biochemistry wattled non Red Sokoto does their offspring was carried out at Teaching Research Farm Department Animal Pro...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is the most common genital tract malignancy in the developing countries of the world. Interestingly, it has a pre-invasive stage, which can be detected through screening. The etiological organism of the disease is the human papilloma virus (HPV) that is sexually transmitted and sexually transmitted infections play a major role in the causation of infertility in develo...

An investigation was undertaken to determine the general clinical prevalence of diseases and disorders in cattle and goats at the Upazilla Veterinary Hospital, Mohammadpur, Magura during the period from January to December 2010. A total of 536 clinical cases (327 cattle and 209 goats) were recorded and analyzed. Diagnosis of each of the clinical cases was made on general examination, physical e...

We describe a 42 year old man who presented to us with a left lateral chest wall mass of 2 years duration. It has been increasing in size since it was noticed, initially painless but became painful 2 months prior to presentation. No history of trauma to the chest and no cough or haemoptysis. He is a known hypertensive regular on his medications. Examination revealed a left lateral chest wall ma...

The strategy developed for sex determination in skeletal remains is to amplify the highly degraded DNA, by use of primers that span short DNA fragments. To determine sex of unembalmed human cadaveric skeletal fragments from Sokoto, North-western Nigeria, using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). A single blind study of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)-based sex determination using amelogenin gene a...

By complement fixation test 230 blood samples from goats and he goats were examined for presence of antibodies against Brucella ovis. 134 blood samples were from goats (23 of them were from slipping goats) and 96from he goats. The animals come from private farms in the Plovdiv and Pazardzhik regions (Southern Bulgaria). 10.87% of all tested blood samples contain antibodies against Brucella ovis...

The objective of this study was to compare the presence on goats and cattle of adult ticks that usually infest cattle. To this end ticks collected from sets of five goats were compared with those collected from sets of five cattle at 72 communal dip-tanks in the eastern region of the Eastern Cape Province. Amblyomma hebraeum was present on goats at 25 and on cattle at 39 dip-tanks, and a total ...

When the livestock sector is considered an essential role in farmers' livelihood, and local breeds are still critical component of animal breeding Laos. Thus, there a need to review previous, current situation prospects for Laos' production. It aimed study different traits among existing dominant improved (cattle, pig, goat) more in-depth on sector's previous evolving prospects. Our findings re...