Problem statement: Q fever is a ubiquitous zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, an obligate intracellular rickettsial organism that caused abortion and stillbirth in ruminants. Approach: The prevalence of Coxiella burnetii in Iran is essentially unknown. Its traditional diagnosis is based on culture, serology and conventional PCR. In this present study, for more sensitive and accurate detectio...

Prenatal diagnosis was successfully accomplished by determining sphingomyelinase activity in the cultured amniotic fluid cells in a case of high risk pregnancy for Niemann-Pick disease (NPD), type A. No detectable activity of sphingomyelinase was found in the cultured amniotic fluid cells obtained at the 17th week of gestation. Patient's pregnancy was terminated and the aborted fetus was proved...

isolation of bohv-1 was attempted from nasal swabs as well as aborted foetuses and vaginal swabs in madin darby bovine kidney (mdbk) cell line to find out the prevalent strain in the state of west bengal, india. the virus was isolated from only one case out of 65 nasal swabs whereas no virus was isolated from aborted foetuses and vaginal swabs. the isolate was typed as bohv-1.2 (strain india 3).

T he Emergency Medical Service (EMS) crew was asked to attend to a 40 year old man, after he suddenly lost consciousness in the midst of a family get together at his home. On arrival, the EMS crew found him to be unresponsive and pulseless. The initial ‘‘paddles on’’ electrocardiogram (ECG) showed ventricular fibrillation and patient was successfully cardioverted. (two direct current shocks: 20...

ewe abortion and neonatal mortality are serious problems to sheep farmer. the objective of this paper was to report isolation of erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae from aborted fetuses in a flock in tehran, iran. abortion occurred in 10% of ewes in the flock. the fetuses were well developed and pinpoint, necrotic-like lesions were recorded on the placental cotyledons, whilst the inter -cotyledonary a...

Schmallenberg virus (SBV) was first reported in cattle, north-western Germany and east of the Netherlands November 2011. SBV causes serious economic losses domesticated ruminant animals. is also seen Turkey there are few seroprevalence studies sheep goats. For this purpose, study, prevalence investigated Honamlı goats Burdur region. The study carried out 12 different herds that were breeding pr...