A study was conducted in the Luwero and Nakasongola districts in central Uganda to determine and compare the prevalence and distribution of antibodies against Brucella abortus in cattle under contrasting husbandry practices, using two serological tests. Three hundred and fifteen serum samples were systematically sampled from 29 farms and subsequently tested using the Rose Bengal plate test (RBP...

In Iran, Plasmodium vivax is responsible for more than 80% of the infected cases of malaria per year. Control interventions for vivax malaria in humans rely mainly on developed diagnostic methods. Recombinant P. vivax apical membrane antigen-1 (rPvAMA-1) has been reported to achieve designing rapid, sensitive, and specific molecular diagnosis. This study aimed to perform isolation and expressio...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease and a chronic systematic disease with unknown etiology influential more than one million individuals each year. The aim of this study is to substantiation the impact of IL4, C3 and C4 in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. During the period 2/January/2013 to 1/October/2013, fifty patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus that ...

Leptospirosis is worldwide zoonotic disease that is serious problem in south Indian states and now emerging in North India. The focus these days is to develop recombinant outer membrane protein based Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for seroprevalence of leptospirosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate indirect ELISA based on recombinant LipL41, Loa22, LipL21, LipL32 and OmpL1 prot...

the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of bovine leukemia virus (blv) in khorasan razavi and khorasan shomali provinces which are the main provinces located in the northeast of iran. total number of 429 blood samples were collected from industrial dairy herds. the samples were categorized based on province, age (2-3, 4-6, and 7-10 years old), calving (≤ 2, 3-5, and > 5) and h...

BACKGROUND Brucellosis is a widespread zoonotic infection. This disease is endemic in many parts of Asia, including India. Brucellosis is a major cause of pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO). Persons exposed to infected animals or contaminated animal products are at high risk. Seropositivity among animal handlers, veterinarians and dairy workers has been documented in India. Thus, the present study...

BACKGROUND In late 2011, a new Orthobunyavirus of the Simbu serogroup named Schmallenberg virus (SBV) emerged in continental Europe. The virus is transmitted by hematophagous arthropods, with the Culicoides species as, so far known, main vectors. Infection with the virus can cause clinical signs in adult ruminants including diarrhea, fever and reduced milk production. Transplacental infection o...

ed by: African Index Medicus (WHO), CAB Abstracts, Index Copernicus, Global Health Abstracts, Asian Science Index, Index Veterinarius, Bioline International , African Journals online Full-text available at http://www.ajbrui.com http://www.bioline.br/md http://www.ajol.com Received: Februaru 2007 Accepted (Revised): April 2007 Published May 2007 Short communication Cross Reactivities of Rabbit A...

The specificity and sensitivity of indirect ELISA, based on the use of four different antigenic extracts obtained from a clinical isolate of Salmonella enteritidis, were compared with those obtained with the gm-flagellin based ELISA (IDEXX). A total of 116 serum samples from salmonellae free, naturally infected and vaccinated hens were studied. The results showed that the indirect ELISA, based ...