East coast fever is a disease of cattle caused by Theileria parva and is transmitted by the tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus. Buffalos are a natural reservoir of the parasite. The objectives of this study were to determine the T. parva infection in buffalo and cattle field samples, to identify genotypes of T. parva infecting cattle and buffalo and finally to investigate the presence of buffalo...

The major aim of this study was to compare the morphology and activity of rumen protozoa of Khuzestan water buffalo and Holstein cow using in vitro digestibility and gas production parameters of steam treated sugarcane pith. Rumen fluid obtained from two buffalo and cow steers fed the same diet, 30:70 concentrate: forage. To separate rumen protozoa, antibiotic solution and fungicides were added...

River buffalo, Bubalus bubalis is a large bovine species frequently used livestock in southern Asia. It is believed that the river buffalo was domesticated from Bubalus arnee, the wild buffalo of mainland Asia, a few thousand years ago, probably during the period of Indus Valley civilization. However, the domestication history of the river buffalo has been the subject of debate for many decades...

Materials and Methods The estimate of world buffalo population is approximately 185.29 million dispersed in 42 countries, out of which 97% (179.75 million) are found only in Asia [1]. India has approximately 57% (105.3 million) of the total world buffalo population. The water buffalo ( ) contributes immensely to the agricultural economy through milk, meat, hides and draught power [2]. Share of ...

background: lactoperoxidase (lpo) is one of the most heat-stable enzymes in milk and its inactivation has been proposed for monitoring thermal processes. the aim of this study was to provide information on activity and thermal inactivation behavior of lpo in iranian cow and buffalo milk and whey. methods: sixty cow and buffalo milk samples were collected. the lpo activity was measured using spe...

Rules of Crowdsourcing: Models, Issues, and Systems of Control Gregory D. Saxton a , Onook Oh b & Rajiv Kishore c a Department of Communication, College of Arts and Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA b The Center for Collaboration Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA c Department of Management Science & Systems, School of Management, SUNY at Buffalo, Buf...

1Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, The First Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen 361003, China 2Buffalo General Medical Center, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA 3Department of Rheumatology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200001, China 4Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatolog...

Contextual vocabulary acquisition as computational philosophy and as philosophical computation William J. Rapaport a & Michael W. Kibby b a Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Philosophy, Department of Linguistics, and Center for Cognitive Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA b Department of Learning and Instruction and Center for Li...

GEORGIRENE D. VLADUTIU and NOEL R. ROSE. From the Center for Immunology and the Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214 . Dr . Vladutiu's present address is the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Buffalo, 86 Hodge Street, Buffalo, New York 14222 . Dr . Rose's present address is the...