neospora caninum is a worldwide distributed pathogen which causes abortion in cattle leading to economic loss in the cattle industry. the aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of n. caninum antibodies in the native cattle slaughtered in various areas of kurdistan province (western iran) from september 2010 to september 2011. serum samples from 368 cattle slaughtered in seven sla...

Atefeh Ghanbari, Pardis Rahmatpour, Fatemeh Jafaraghayee, Malahat Khalili. Associate Professor, PhD of Nursing, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran; Msc of Nursing Education, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran; Assistant Professor, PhD of Nursing, Social Determinants of H...

Bovine leukocyte antigens (BoLA) are extensively used as markers for bovine disease and immunological traits. However, none of the BoLA genes in Southeast Asian breeds have been characterized by polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-sequence-based typing (SBT). Therefore, we sequenced exon 2 of the BoLA class II DRB3 gene from 1120 individual cows belonging to the Holstein, Sahiwal, Simbrah, Jersey, ...

42 Digital Reading Fluency and Text Presentation Medium Preference in EFL Context Jaleh Hasaskhah, Department of English Language and Literature, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran Behzad Barekat, Department of English Language and Literature, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran Nahid Farhang Asa, Department of English Language and Literature, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran InternatIonal Journal of DIgI...

The study was undertaken to identify the constraints of native cattle genetic resource conservation at the farm level along with their features of breeding system and profitability. Five different study sites like south-west, northern hills, industrial zone, north-west and mid-region were selected representatively from all over the country. A total of 280 cattle farmers from the selected region...

This study was carried out to determine the prevalence and intensity of amphistomiasis in native cattleand mixed breed Holstein from Mazanderan province, in the north of Iran in association with sex, age, breedand season. During the 4 seasons of 2008, at meat inspection the rumen and reticulum of 132 native cattleand 104 mixed breed were examined by naked eye for amphistomiasis. All amphistomes...

INTRODUCTION Modern beef cattle used for our beef production are not exactly a property left by our ancestors, but composed products from native and imported cattle. Most native cattle were graded up by British and continental breeds for a few generations about 90 years ago. It should be pointed out, however, that they are the sole domestic farm animals in our country contributing to practical ...

Neospora caninum is an Apicomplexan parasite which may cause abortion in cattle. This study investigated occurrences of antibodies against N. caninum in Iranian native cattle. From September 2010 to September 2011, blood samples (n=768) of native cows were collected randomly from different rural regions of Hamedan (n=400) and Kurdistan provinces (n=368) located to the western part of Iran. All ...

1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kharazmi (Tarbiat moallem) University, Tehran, Iran. 2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kharazmi (Tarbiat moallem) University, Tehran, Iran. 3 Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran. 4 Faculty of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran. 5 Cellular and Mo...

Bovine theileriosis is an important tick-borne disease caused by intraerythrocytic parasites from genus Theileria. This study sought to detect the theileriosis among cattle and buffaloes using molecular and microscopic tests in West Azerbaijan, Iran. For this purpose, 484 blood samples from 193 cattle and 291 buffaloes were collected during March to July 2014. The breed, gender, age, and habita...