Water buffalo are less susceptible to Schistosoma japonicum infection than yellow cattle. The factors that affect such differences in susceptibility remain unknown. A Bos taurus genome-wide gene chip was used to analyze gene expression profiles in the peripheral blood of water buffalo and yellow cattle pre- and post-infection with S. japonicum. This study showed that most of the identified diff...

Several 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate-O-acyltransferases (AGPATs) can acylate lysophosphatidic acid to produce phosphatidic acid. Of the eight AGPAT isoforms, AGPAT6 is a crucial enzyme for glycerolipids and triacylglycerol biosynthesis in some mammalian tissues. We amplified and identified the complete coding sequence (CDS) of the water buffalo AGPAT6 gene by using the reverse transcription-polym...

A total of 560 cattle and water buffalo were examined at livestock markets in Bangladesh. The aim was to assess the frequency of nose and tail injuries that could have occurred during handling and transport. The frequency of nose piercing was 64%, and 69% of the cattle and 54% of the water buffalo had rubbing or tearing injuries at the nostrils from nose ropes fitted through the pierced hole. A...

Buffaloes are well known domestic animals in Asia, Mediterranean and Latin American countries of the world for different breeding purposes such as milk, meat, draught and capital [23]. The buffalo has been regarded as poor reproductive efficiency and characterized by low conception rates [6, 22, 23]. Seasonality of buffalo breeding results in a milk supply that exceeds demand in summer and autu...

Cystic echinococcosis (CE), caused by the larval stages of the tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus, is known to be one of the most important parasitic infection in livestock worldwide and one of the most widespread zoonoses known. In the present study, we used a geographical information system (GIS) to study the spatial structure of livestock (cattle, water buffaloes and sheep) populations to gain...

The domestic water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is an economically important livestock species in many Asian and Mediterranean countries. Two types of water buffalos are river and swamp buffaloes. Genetically, the swamp buffalo has 48 chromosomes (2n = 48) and the river buffalo has 50 chromosomes (2n = 50). Khuzestan province is one of the important centers of buffalo farming in ...

BACKGROUND African buffaloes are the maintenance host for Mycobacterium bovis in the endemically infected Kruger National Park (KNP). The infection is primarily spread between buffaloes via the respiratory route, but it is not known whether shedding of M. bovis in nasal and oral excretions may lead to contamination of ground and surface water and facilitate the transmission to other animal spec...

in this study, molecular characterization of echinococcus granulosus sample obtained from water buffalo originating from southwest of iran was performed using comparative sequence analysis of cox1 mitochondrial gene. dna was extracted from protoscoleces removed from hydatid cyst from the liver of a 2-year-old male buffalo slaughtered in khuzestan province. molecular and phylogenetic analyses we...

background: dense granules are immunodominant proteins for the standardi-zation of immunodiagnostic procedures to detect neosporosis. in the presented study different fragment of a dense-granule protein was evaluated for serodiagno-sis of neospora caninum in cattle and water buffalo. methods: ncgra7, from n. caninum tachyzoites was amplified. pcr product and pmal-c2x plasmid were digested with ...