BACKGROUND Schistosoma japonicum is a major public health concern in China, with over one million people infected and another 40 million living in areas at risk of infection. Unlike the disease caused by S. mansoni and S. haematobium, schistosomiasis japonica is a zoonosis, involving a number of different mammalian species as reservoir hosts. As a result of a number of published reports from Ch...

BACKGROUND Dense granules are immunodominant proteins for the standardization of immunodiagnostic procedures to detect neosporosis. In the presented study different fragment of a dense-granule protein was evaluated for serodiagnosis 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 Ec...

Research into the application of electrocardiography in buffaloes has been lacking when compared to other species. However, identification of altered health states, whether for identification of healthy animals or for the measurement of treatment effects is vital for research. Several electrocardiogram (ECG) changes were shown to occur in buffaloes naturally infected with Theileria annulata inc...

Pest des petits ruminants (PPR) is one of the important viral diseases of goats and sheep. The viral agent of PPR, Small ruminant morbillivirus (SRM), has been shown to infect several species among domestic and wild ruminants. In order to investigate the occurrence of SRM infection in Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), blood samples were collected from 150 buffaloes (98 males, 52 females) referre...

hydatidosis is caused by the larval stage (metacestode) of the tapeworm echinococcus granulosus. the disease has a worldwide distribution and iran is in the hyperendemic region. in the present study, the efficacy of dot-elisa and pcr tests for detecting hydatid cysts was investigated. blood samples and samples from liver and lung were collected from a number of 256 cattle and 132 water buffaloe...

Babesia bovis (B. bovis) is a major causative agent of bovine babesiosis, with a considerable worldwide impact. The objective of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of PCR assay and microscopical examination (ME) for detection of B. bovis in naturally infected and apparently healthy water buffaloes and crossbred cattle under field circumstances from Sharkia province of Egypt. A total 34 a...

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...

INTRODUCTION Toxoplasmosis is a widespread zoonosis that causes significant economic losses due to abortions and other developmental disabilities in livestock animals. The objectives of the current study were to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of Toxoplasma gondii infection in cattle and buffaloes in northern parts of Punjab, Pakistan, where no such work previously existed....

Considering the economic impact of various ticks species on livestock, the present study was projected for epidemiological characterize of common ticks infesting water buffaloes. The present study was conducted between July 2010 and June 2011 period at various locations of Mathura region. A total of 635 water buffaloes were examined randomly. The overall prevalence of ticks infestation among bu...

The complete coding region sequence of the SRY gene in Chinese swamp buffalo was determined by PCR product sequencing. Comparison of swamp and river buffalo SRY gene sequences revealed a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP, C/G) at the 202 bp site of the coding region. Further, a total of 124 male domestic buffaloes were genotyped at this SNP site using the PCR-SSCP method, and it was found tha...