Neurobrucellosis (N.B) is a rare and severe form of systemic Brucella infection. We introduced an unusual case that “Psychologic Symptoms” was the most prominent complaints of his family. He was a 50-year-old man who has worked in butchery. His problems had begun 2 months prior to his admission with mood disorders, arthralgia, weakness, headache, and night sweats; he has recurrent crying with n...

Background: Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are group of E. coli causing bloody diarrhea. The goal of this survey was to determine the prevalence of multidrug resistant shiga toxin-producing E. coli in cattle meat and its contact surfaces. Methods: Swab samples (n=120) were randomly collected from meat and contact surface of butchery shops in Sharkia province, Egypt. Prevalence o...

ABSTRACT: Large quantities of beef and mutton tallow are available in Iran every year. If these products are processed and formulated properly and scientifically, the need to import oils and fats in a substantial quantities might be reduced. The aim of this study is to fractionate beef tallow into different fractions and carry out physical and chemical tests on each isolated fraction. Beef fat ...

background: leptospirosis, a spirochetal zoonosis, is considered an occupational disease of persons engaged in agriculture, sewage works, forestry, and butchery. objective: to determine the environmental sources and the knowledge, attitude and practices for leptospirosis among butchers and slaughterhouse workers, as well as the seroprevalence of leptospirosis among cattle and pigs presented for...

The faunal assemblages excavated by Mary Leakey in Bed II of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, have, like the more well-known Bed I assemblages, traditionally been interpreted as the result of hominid butchering activities in the lake margin and riverine settings of the paleo-Olduvai Basin. A reexamination of all of Leakey's Bed I sites has shown that hominids played little or no role in the formation o...

Information about lipid content and fatty acid (FA) composition of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatos) edible tissues is very limited in comparison to other meat sources. Thus, this work aims to present the first in-depth characterization of the FA profile of meat, subcutaneous adipose tissue and liver of muskoxen living in West Greenland. Furthermore, we aim to evaluate the effect of sex in the FA com...

Although humans have a longer period of infant dependency than other hominoids, human infants, in natural fertility societies, are weaned far earlier than any of the great apes: chimps and orangutans wean, on average, at about 5 and 7.7 years, respectively, while humans wean, on average, at about 2.5 years. Assuming that living great apes demonstrate the ancestral weaning pattern, modern humans...

Among the Persian futuwwatnāmes, which started with Ṣafavid period and are described as Cevânmerd, there also epistles belonging to butchers. The writing of these works began in Great Khorasan basin during Seljuk period. These considered main sources 13th century Anatolian Akhism. In this profession is attributed Prophet Ibrahim. master Hazrat (Excellency) Ali were counted, hero profession, Rey...

The National Museum of Natural History, Paris, the Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS/UMR 7194 and 8148) Society Archaeological Anthropological Research, Chandigarh, conduct paleontological archaeological surveys in a sub-Himalayan territory well known its Upper Pliocene fossiliferous deposits named Quranwala Zone. Since 2007, team is investigating this formation Masol anticline has collected...

The appearance of Oldowan sites ca. 2.6 million years ago (Ma) may reflect one of the most important adaptive shifts in human evolution. Stone artifact manufacture, large mammal butchery, and novel transport and discard behaviors led to the accumulation of the first recognized archaeological debris. The appearance of the Oldowan sites coincides with generally cooler, drier, and more variable cl...