Brucella is ┙-Proteobacteria causing an infectious disease in mammals that could be transmitted to humans. Ruminant and swine are prone to be infected by such microorganism all over the world, thus acting as a potential reservoir for domestic livestock and therefore, affecting humans. Brucella species differ in their hosts’ preference, physiological abilities and cell surface structural charact...

Chlamydophila abortus is one of the most important causative agents of enzootic abortion and other chlamydial infections of sheep and goats. The presence of specific serum antibodies to Chlamydophila abortus was studied in sheep and goats breeding in the Slovak Republic by the complement fixation test. 22,040 sheep and goats were examined during 5 years. Specific anti-Ch. abortus antibodies wer...

The control of brucellosis in Mexico since the 70's until 1998 was performed using cattle vaccination with S19 strain of Brucella abortus as a key tool. The use of strain RB51 was approved since 1998 and vaccination with strain S19 was gradually decreased until fully waived. The strain S19 was used again from 2005 and now both vaccines are applied equally to prevent brucellosis in Mexican cattl...

Determinations have been made of the level of serotonin in various fetal and maternal tissues of goats and rabbits. In the goat, both fetal brain and blood were higher in serotonin content than comparable maternal tissues. Furthermore, in the goat fetal neocortical areas unexpectedly were found to be richer in serotonin than certain subcortical structures. In contrast to the goat, the rabbit wa...

To determine the role of different Brucella (B.) spp. in Bangladesh, 62 animal samples and 500 human sera were tested. Animal samples from cattle, goats and sheep (including milk, bull semen, vaginal swabs and placentas) were cultured for Brucella spp. Three test-positive human sera and all animal samples were screened by Brucella genus-specific real-time PCR (RT-PCR), and positive samples were...

Thirteen Saanen and Saanen crossbred female goats, between the ages of 6 months and 7, years were presented to the clinic, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sudan University of Science and Technology, for sonographic pregnancy diagnosis. Transabdominal ultrasound was performed using 3.5 MHz probe which revealed non-viable fetuses as judged by absence of heart beats and movements. Twelve goats wer...

infection by the protozoan parasite toxoplasma gondii, is widespread in humans and many other species of warm-blooded animals. it can cause significant morbidity and mortality in the developing fetus and in immunocompromised individuals, including humans with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - aids or submitted to cancer chemotherapy. among livestock, sheep and goat are more widely infected w...

A total of 1 076 sera from breeding goats were randomly collected from 24 different farms and tested with CHEKIT®-ELISA (IDEXX Laboratories B.V., 1 119 NE Schiphol-Rijk, Nederland) for antibodies against Chlamydophila abortus. The farms were divided into two categories of twelve farms each,based on their previous history of observed abortions over the previous 12 months: those with low (< 5%...

Abstract Reproductive diseases have been well documented in domestic livestock such as sheep, goat, cattle and pigs. However, there is very little information on these the agouti (Dasyprocta leporina). The used for its meat South America Caribbean. More recently, intensive farming of this animal being practiced Neotropics. There dearth dystocia vaginal prolapses agouti. This document reports th...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the morphological characteristics of the developing vallate papillae (VP) of Korean native goats using scanning electron microscopy. In prenatal development of the VP, primordia of the VP were observed and the moat was shallowly spread in 60-day-old fetuses. The moat of the vallate papillae was shallowly spread and still undifferentiated in 90...